Current Projects
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Cobalt
Cobalt is an emerging multi-institutional community software development effort to deploy an open source production-grade metaverse browser/toolkit application built on, and compatible with, Croquet.
Arts Metaverse Project
Arts Metaverse, a 3D virtual environment based on Croquet, provides an opportunity for scholars, teachers, students, and interested individuals to create their own virtual space where they can interact and collaborate with others. Created by the University of British Columbia's Arts Instructional Suppport & Information Technology unit, Arts Metaverse is currently in its initial stages and is intended to provide a rich network of interlinked multiuser spaces in support of the arts. Click here for the project website.
EduSim
The EduSim 3D Smartboard Application is a very cool Croquet-based white board being developed by Rich White of the Greenbush Southeast Kansas Educational Service Center. It's designed to provide educators and students with a way of linking 3D activities across multiple white boards by leveraging many of Croquet's existing capabilities. Greenbush is working to ensure that The Edusim is being developed with resource packs for the K-12 classroom.
SensorRAUM
The Technical University of Braunschweig's SensorRAUM project seeks to investigate, define, develop, and demonstrate user-friendly and intuitive user interfaces for wireless sensor networks using Croquet. See http://www.duslab.de/sensorraum/architecture.html for more information.
Qwaq Projects
Qwaq is a Palo Alto-based corporation dedicated to enabling Croquet-based applications in a range of settings.
With enterprise customers and partners, Qwaq has built and deployed proprietary Croquet-based collaborative spaces enabling our customers to integrate their existing 2D media, 3D models and simulations. These spaces enable interlinked virtual conference rooms dedicated to each area of corporated interest. Vertical markets represented by current customers include:
- Oil and gas
- Logistics
- Pharmaceuticals
For customers creating consumer-facing Internet services, Qwaq also provides a Croquet-based Services Platform. In addition to the platform features provided the Enterprise, the Qwaq Service Platform handles issues related to registration, billing support, advertising support and user management.
For contact information please see Qwaq
Croquet-Based Realtime Art Installation
Igrishe is a Croquet-based art installation. Essentially a distributed slideshow, it allows artists to build/run realtime performances/VJ sessions in theaters, art galleries, and learning labs. In its current implementation, its developer Nikolay Suslov, connected the real-world space of 3 walls with a virtual projection in 3D. Rendering is done by 3 computers (one per wall) connected in network with running Croquet image on every machine. Because it is built in Croquet, this system is scalable to any number of walls/projections. the effect is that an artist gets a full featured connected virtual/real space to manipulate.
Brie
Brie is a language architecture and framework that supports direct manipulation and creation of 3D content and user interfaces. The component-based architecture of both the language and the UI framework is described in a paper written by its designers, Howard Stearns, Joshua Gargus, and Julian Lombardi. Brie’s language is an extension of Squeak Smalltalk that facilitates the creation of interoperable components within shared Croquet-based 3D spaces. Such components can be made to interact with (and be composed of) independently created components. Interaction between components will be possible even if each component is designed and implemented without knowledge of the others. The Brie framework also delivers a proof-of concept UI for a future Croquet-based level-editing application.
- 2006. Simplified Distributed Authoring Via Component-based Object Construction and Deconstruction in Collaborative Croquet Spaces - a paper by Howard Stearns, Joshua Gargus, Martin Schuetze and Julian Lombardi
- 2006. A Language Supporting Direct Manipulation of Component-based Object Construction and Deconstruction in Collaborative Croquet Spaces - a paper by Howard Stearns, Joshua Gargus, Martin Schuetze and Julian Lombardi
Past Projects
Click here for information about some past projects involving Croquet.
