Virtual Northstar

About this site

Welcome to Virtual Northstar, a project at Saint Paul College utilizing Sun Microsystem's Darkstar, Wonderland, and JVoiceBridge technologies to build an educational metaverse. It is based on open source software and centered around the 3D web.

Documentation and Downloads

We follow the Sun open source philosophy here and therefore all of our "stuff" is available for you to use and experiment with. Once we figure out the open source licensing lingo we will attach it so for the time being we simply pass along the open source licensing framework adopted at Sun. Be nice kids and SHARE!

Metaverse Blog Aggregator

Below is a link to various blogs we have found useful.

New from the Metaverse: An Aggregation of News Feeds

Our Virtual Worlds

Below you will find a series of Java Web Start enabled links which we use to access our virtual worlds. Please feel free to visit and use them. They are all based on Sun's Wonderland Technology Stack.

MnSCU Island
Virtual Northstar Webstart Harding High
Harding High Webstart
SPC Sun COE
SPC COE Project UN TVET Project
UN TVET Project Oregon CATE
CATE Webstart

Our project one of many underway at other colleges and universities about the world.

University of Essex - England

The University of Essex in England is creating many applications based on Sun technology. Check out MiRTLE below. Awesome application!

MiRTLE Project
Oregon CATE Project
(Requires registration)

For information, see our project's goals and directions

Please feel free to drop us an email if you are interested in the project.

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