Unity3D and OpenSim Working Together Prototype

As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been hammering away on connecting the Unity3D viewer to our OpenSim servers. It works. You can see it for yourself if you go over to http://heritage-key.com . Arrive in the virtual gallery and check out a selection of artefacts like King Tut’s death mask, Stonehenge sarasens and a Terracotta Warrior and also learn a bit about Ancient World history. The main goal here is to give people a taste of what is on offer in the fuller version of our virtual online areas.
Our challenge is to get mainstream online users into virtual online experiences. Often people don’t know what is even possible, but fear the hassle of finding out.  This new viewer capability lowers the hurdle significantly. Is this the future for museums? Maybe? http://rezzable.net/
What is OpenSim?
OpenSimulator is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols. OpenSimulator allows virtual world developers to customize their worlds using the technologies they feel work best – we’ve designed the framework to be easily extensible.
http://opensimulator.org/