ALICE IN OPEN WONDERLAND

摘要

Among the open source virtual platforms of use to educators, Open Wonderland {openwonderland.org) has one distinct edge over OpenSimulator: Outside applications can be embedded inside the online world. For example, a teacher explaining a word processing program to students can set up a giant computer screen inside the virtual environment, and student avatars can gather around it and interact with the application in real time, as if they were all standing around the same computer. OpenSim has the ability to have live web pages inside a world and run web-based applications, but not stand-alone software packages.