Virtual Northstar

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You can join in with blogging and commenting about the latest work being done on virtual worlds and immersive education at Saint Paul College, University of Oregon, and University of Essex among others, post experiences with things like MiRTLE in our forums, help out by contributing documentation and artwork, and submit bugs and feature requests in our project tracker! All you have to do to get involved is create an account.

New from the Metaverse: An Aggregation of News Feeds

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We have scene artwork for the Sun COE at Saint Paul College. Download the X3D file and check it out on your server!

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.

MnSCU Island
Virtual Northstar Webstart
SPC Sun COE
SPC COE Project
UN TVET Project
UN TVET Project

Our project is being done in parallel with efforts underway at other colleges and universities about the world.

Some such efforts include:

MiRTLE Project
which uses Java Web Start for a more direct way of running the Wonderland client. Please download and try it, and report your experiences on our forum.
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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