This material is distributed under the GNU General Public License Version 2. To obtain a copy of the original source code, make a request on the Wonderland Forum. Open Wonderland Project IdeasAnyone in the community is invited to add projects to this list by commenting on this page. Please use the template provided below. Projects By Category and Level-of-Effort Student Project IdeasThis is a list of potential projects for students or anyone else interested in extending Wonderland. The projects are listed by category with a level-of-effort indicator from small to large in parentheses after the project name. The level of effort that a project involves is based on many factors, the most important of which is the experience of the developer or project team. In addition, some ideas can be expanded to encompass more functionality and other ideas can be simplified. The level-of-effort indicators below should be considered relative. A "small" level of effort means that the level of effort is smaller than the level of effort required by a "medium" or "large" project. Each project is marked with one or more keywords. You can use your browser's "find in page" feature if you are interested in projects that match one of the keywords. Education Applications, Simulations & SpacesWriters Workshop (small)| Description | Design an inspirational space for aspiring authors to work on compositions, critique each other's work, and perform readings. | | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | | Keywords | education, world | | | Comments | | |
Math Help Center (small to medium)| Description | Create a virtual Math Help Center where students needing extra help with math homework can meet up with volunteers willing to offer help. Either focus on a single level (algebra, trig, calculus, etc.) or create different spaces for different levels of students. Enhance a simple whiteboard to make it easier for math tutors and students to write out math equations. | | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | | Keywords | education, world | | | Comments | comments go here | |
Art Studio (medium)| Description | Create a virtual art studio where students can display both digital artwork or photographs of physical creations for either instructor or student led group critique sessions. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, world | | Comments | comments go here |
Relativity Demo - Twin Paradox (medium)| Description | Show the effect of special relativity on time and distance. Rather than just a video, create a way to show the "twin paradox" by making one avatar look very old and the twin look very young! | | Proposer | Joe Provino | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, simulation | | Comments | comments go here |
Relativity Demo - Black Hole (medium)| Description | Show the effect of general relativity on time and distance. This could be an in-world black hole which implies a strong gravitational field. As an avatar approaches the black hole, it would become taller and thinner. Also, since time slows down, the avatar approaching the black hole would hear another person's audio speed up. The avatar far away from the black hold would hear the audio of the avatar near the black hole becoming slower and slower. We'd have to make sure the avatar doesn't go too close to the black hole or it will disappear forever. :-) | | Proposer | Joe Provino | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, simulation | | Comments | comments go here |
Material Molecular Viewer (medium)| Description | Users gather in a space with a bunch of materials (in various states) ; water, ice, steam, steel, hot steel, spring steel, glass etc, etc. User can enter the material and observe the dynamic behavior of the atoms within the material. | | Proposer | Paul Byrne | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | see list above | | Comments | comments go here |
Solar System Simulation (medium)| Description | The goal would be to implement a "virtual orrery" which simulates the solar system (maybe with only 4 planets). Users could control parameters such as planet mass and gravitational constant to experiment. These controls could be provided via a swing panel or a !Widget3D control box (Note: !Widget3D is the name of a prototype 3D widget library I muse about from time to time.). Users could apply a force to a particular planet by moving a "force vector" arrow widget. You could also add a visualization of keplers law of equal areas/times. | | Proposer | Deron Johnson | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, physics, simulation | | Comments | comments go here |
Virtual, Multi-user Microscope (medium)| Description | Create a multi-user version of a microscope simulation similar to this one created at the University of Delaware using data sets available on the web as targets for viewing. A multi-user scope would let one or more people view the same image together and provide a way to point to interesting features and potentially annotate them. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, simulation, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
History Collection (medium to large)| Description | Put together a collection of historic models and avatar outfits such that teachers or students could easily recreate a scene from a period in history such as ancient Rome, the Wild West, or the French Revolution. Provide some in-world tools for students to create signs or newspapers. Environments created with this collection should allow students to stage virtual re-enactments of historical events. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, simulation, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Psychology Demonstration World (medium to large)| Description | In high school AP Psychology classes and college-level introductory classes, students are often introduced to psychology concepts through live demonstrations. This project involves creating a virtual psychology demonstration world in which students can interact with other live students as well as with simulated characters to observe phenomena such as perception, memory, conditioning, and learning. For any students interested in this project, we will try to pair you with an AP Psychology teacher. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, simulation, 3D, world | | Comments | comments go here |
Econ 101 (medium to large)| Description | Create a series of virtual spaces that allow students to interact with one another and with simulated characters to experience different principles of economics. An expanded version of this project might include a current events space where economic news is streamed live. Students can discuss current events in this space or collect and organize news stories on topics of interest. For any students interested in this project, we will try to pair you with an economics professor. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, simulation, 3D, world | | Comments | comments go here |
Open Source Authoring for Virtual Learning (large)| Description | Integrate the PIVOTE open-source authoring system for learning into Wonderland. | | Proposer | Bernard Horan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | Education, Tool | | Comments | comments go here |
Physics Classroom (large)| Description | Choose some aspect of physics and construct a simulation-based interactive learning laboratory. We can choose simple physics (e.g. Newtonian stuff -- gravity, coefficients of friction, Hooke's law), or we can choose something more complex (e.g. a wave tank). | | Proposer | Jordan Slott | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, physics, simulation | | Comments | comments go here |
Eco-System Simulation (large)| Description | Simple eco-systems can be used for teaching both science and mathematical modeling. Create one or more simple eco-systems that include inter-dependent plants and animals. Example eco-systems include rain forest, desert, plains, pond, or coral reef. The eco-systems can include "real" weather based on current or historical weather data and can also include water-ways, pollution levels, and human-created structures such as buildings and roads. An important aspect of this project is to include ways to impact the eco-system by simulating natural disasters, new construction, invasive species, or disease. A nice additional feature would be some easy-to-use in-world data recording tools so that students can record observations, graph results, and share this data with others. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, simulation, 3D, world | | Comments | comments go here |
Virtual Theater (large)| Description | Create a virtual theater environment for students to perform live shows complete with a curtain, stage, lighting, and multi-media components. This could be used either to rehearse for physical performances or to produce live, in-world theatrical productions. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, simulation, 3D, world | | Comments | comments go here |
Enhanced Alice Integration (large)| Description | Building on the work of Stanford student Kevin Montag, enhance the integration of the Alice programming environment. Alice was created as tool for teaching programming concepts to novices using animations, story telling and interactive games. The current integration supports dragging and dropping Alice programs into the virtual world and playing them back. A more advanced integration would enable people to animate any collada model that can be imported into Wonderland rather than just using the 3D art that is supplied with the Alice environment. Many other advanced features could also be added. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | unassigned | | Keywords | education, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Scratch Integration (large)| Description | Integrate the Scratch programming environment with Wonderland. Scratch was created as tool for teaching programming concepts to novices using animations, story telling and interactive games. A simple integration with Wonderland would allow students to share their creations in a virtual world with other students. A deeper integration would extend Scratch concepts to 3D, allowing students to use Scratch as a scripting language for Wonderland. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Greenfoot Integration (large)| Description | Integrate the Greenfoot programming environment with Wonderland. Greenfoot was created as tool for teaching Java programming concepts to novices using animations, story telling and interactive games. A simple integration with Wonderland would allow students to share their creations in a virtual world with other students. A deeper integration would extend Greenfoot concepts to 3D, allowing students to use Greenfoot as a programming environment for Wonderland. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | education, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Business Applications, Simulations & SpacesDeveloper Pair Programming Space (small)| Description | While some tools exist for remote pair programming, the virtual environment seems better suited to this activity. Create a virtual space to support pair programming. | | Proposer | Nigel Simpson | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | business | | Comments | comments go here |
Question/Answer Board (small)| Description | Create a board that contains a list of names of people who want to ask a question in the order in which they raised their hands. Names could be removed from the board when the avatar's hard is lowered or when someone manually removes the name. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app, business, education | | Comments | comments go here |
Situation Room (medium)| Description | Create a situation room or crisis center where remote people can come together to work through a difficult problem or manage an emergency situation. Think about the types of dynamic data these people will need for effective decision-making and the tools they will need to work together. Communication with the outside world through multiple channels may be an important aspect of this project. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | business, world, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
System Administration Training (medium)| Description | Create a training environment where an instructor can provide remote training for system administration tasks such as setting up Solaris zones, creating new user accounts, or installing patches. The training should allow students to each interact with their own live system using a terminal or other web-based tool. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | business, world | | Comments | comments go here |
Virtual Demo Floor (medium)| Description | Set up a virtual demo floor with booths that allow visitors to see live software demos and/or simulated hardware demonstrations, ask questions, and talk informally with demoers and other visitors. A key to this project is setting up the audio so that presentations in the various booths are somewhat isolated from one another without entirely losing the "buzz" of excitement that often is present in real demo situations. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | business, world, audio | | Comments | comments go here |
Federated Presentation Space (large)| Description | Create a world designed for presentations or large all-hands meetings. A single stage would be shared across multiple federated Wonderland instances. Anyone on the stage would appear and be heard in all worlds. Presenters would present to everyone from the stage, and users could temporarily move to the front of their respective rooms to ask questions that are heard by everyone. | | Proposer | Jonathan Kaplan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | business, 3D, world | | Comments | comments go here |
Presenter Kit (large)| Description | Package up a set of features that make it easier to give effective presentations in Wonderland. These features might include [#Follow_me_Navigation_small[follow-me navigation]], a [#Question_Answer_Board_small[question-answer board]], and [#Presenter_Avatar_Animation_mediupresenter animations]. In addition, there are a number of audio-related features that would be particularly useful: a [#Hand_held_Microphone_small[hand-held microphone]] to amplify audience members without requiring them to move, the ability to turn on and off amplification of the presenter, and the ability to mute and unmute the audience. Video of the presentation streamed to the web would be another possible feature in this kit. Viewers of the video should be able to submit questions to the question-answer board. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, business, education, audio | | Comments | comments go here |
Affinity-style Brainstorming (large)| Description | Research on distributed teams show that brainstorming is one of the most difficult activities to do remotely. Create a space that supports affinity-style brainstorming in which people work separately to generate ideas and then collaborate to organize and prioritize the ideas. This web page describes the affinity process fairly well. | | Proposer | Deron Johnson | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, business | | Comments | comments go here |
Remote-Controlled Mirror World (large)| Description | Create a "digital double" of a real world space which has aspects that can be remote controlled. This might include factory equipment, robots, laboratory equipment, cameras, or electronic devices. Allow users to work together to control these remote devices. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | business, world, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Sales Training and Rehearsal (large)| Description | Create a remote training environment for a distributed sales force focused on selling a consumer product. Model and animate that product such that the sales trainer can demonstrate the operation of the product in a way that shows its value more effectively than can be done with words and still images. Each sales person should also be able to try out the virtual product, practice their sales pitch, and receive feedback from their colleagues. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | business, world | | Comments | comments go here |
Shop 'til You Drop (large)| Description | Your very own private showroom of clothes from multiple vendors. Family shopping without leaving home! Get those hard-to-shop-with family members to try on and approve clothes fast. Bring along your entire existing wardrobe to see what goes with what. | | Proposer | Miriam Kadansky | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | business, world | | Comments | comments go here |
Web IntegrationRSS Feed Viewer (small)| Description | Create a new cell that provides a dynamic display of a user-specified RSS feed. (Consider adapting the HTML viewer for implementation.) | | Proposer | Bernard Horan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, web-integration | | Comments | comments go here |
News Central (small to medium)| Description | Design an RSS-feed-enabled research space that displays live news articles, images, and videos that are always up-to-date. For a more challenging project, dynamically create new spaces for a more in-depth look at a particular news topic. | | Proposer | Nigel Simpson | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | business, web-integration | | Comments | comments go here |
Twitter Viewer (small - medium)| Description | Create a new cell that will display a twitter feed. For a small level-of-effort, do this as a 2D view to place on a virtual wall. As a larger project, create a 3D visualization, showing the tweets on a globe or other 3D display. | | Proposer | Bernard Horan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, web-integration | | Comments | comments go here |
WebCast Avatar's View (medium)YouTube Video Player (medium)| Description | Create a cell that will play a YouTube video in a Wonderland virtual world, when provided with a URI. | | Proposer | Bernard Horan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app, web-integration, video | | Comments | comments go here |
Google 3D Warehouse Browser (medium)| Description | Create a new cell which allows the user to browse a set of 3d models (such as can be retrieved from Google using its Web Service API, or from the [http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/Sketchup 3D Warehouse]), which can then be dynamically imported into a Wonderland virtual world. | | Proposer | Bernard Horan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, web-integration | | Comments | comments go here |
Dynamic Personal Wall (medium)| Description | Create a personal wall that displays status of a person's latest code check-ins, current blog posts, recent forum posts, Facebook/Twitter/IM status updates and dynamically updates these. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app, web-integration | | Comments | comments go here |
Real-world Data Integration (medium)| Description | The real-world is rich with data and the Web makes most of this data available in 2D format. Using Wonderland, present some of this data in 3D and updated in real-time. Examples include weather and traffic, and digital terrain data. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, web-integration, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Virtual Home Town (medium)| Description | Create a Google Maps / Google 3D Warehouse / Wonderland mashup of your home town. This walkable Google Map could load 3D models of buildings from the 3D Warehouse and allow visitors to walk around your town or city, hop on a bus to cross town, or take a ferry ride across a river. Perhaps you could even visit the personal spaces of people who live in the town. | | Proposer | Nigel Simpson | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app, web-integration, world, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Flight Tracker (medium)| Description | Flight tracking is available in 3D from http://floweb.com. Live air traffic control audio is available from http://liveatc.net. Simulate an airport control tower with apps displaying live flight data, the sounds of the controllers, and even models of the planes landing. | | Proposer | Jonathan Kaplan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app, web-integration, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Social API Integration (medium to large)| Description | Integrate a social API (e.g. OpenSocial, Facebook) into Wonderland: this can provide the ability to visualize your friends network in 3D, locate friends within the virtual world easily, and be able to view and update the social interaction features (e.g. Walls, messages, status, pictures) of friends provided by the social networking sites in-world. For a more challenging project, create a Facebook application that shows a snapshot of a person's personal 3D space and allows visitors to enter that space. The Facebook application would keep track of the number of users to limit access to space and display in-world activity on the Facebook page. The application would also include a simple configuration tool for generating the space in the first place, allowing users to select color and perhaps a wall paper pattern. Other configuration options might include specifying who is allowed to enter the space and what permissions those people have (eg, move objects, place new objects, delete objects, etc.). A "create world" button would automatically generate the new space. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app, web-integration, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Dynamic Social Space Mashup (medium to large)| Description | Mashup multiple social networking services in a way that brings people with common interests together in a spontaneously generated space, populated with relevant up-to-the-second content. | | Proposer | Nigel Simpson | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app, web-integration, world, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
General Applications & FeaturesPostcards from Wonderland (small)| Description | Add a feature that allows a user to create a snapshot of their current 3D view and email it, along with a few lines of text, as an electronic postcard. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app | | Comments | comments go here |
MP3 Player (small)| Description | Create a new cell that will play a user-provided MP3 file. The file should be accessible via a URI. Bonus points for being able to provide the MP3 player with a playlist. | | Proposer | Bernard Horan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app, music | | Comments | comments go here |
Jam Band (small)| Description | Integrate shared access to a music library like jmusic. Give each person control over an instrument, and collaboratively build a song. | | Proposer | Jonatthan Kaplan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app, music | | Comments | comments go here |
Ambient Displays (small to medium)| Description | Based on the seminal work at the MIT Tangible Media Group on ambient displays, create one or more ambient displays within a Wonderland world. Ambient displays subtly modify some aspect of the environment (ie, walls, floors, doors, colors, textures, window views, lighting, object shapes or sizes, animation speed, size or color) in order to provide status information in an unobtrusive and aesthetically pleasing manner. Some ideas include changing "weather" outside the windows, changing wall or floor colors, or slowly morphing a virtual sculpture based on a web feed or other data source such as a company's stock price, the state of an open source build, or a building's power consumption for the day. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Social Networking Application (medium)| Description | Interactive 3D visualization of a person's social network. The network could be created based on a variety of relationships. Types of relationships might include: buddy list contacts, email contacts, who you sit near in the physical world, who you sit near in the virtual world, shared community involvement, joint authorship of papers, articles or on-line material, blogs in common, music tastes in common, hobbies in common, etc. The social network might offer a daily suggestion of a person you would like to meet and why (E.g, "Tom works for your company and is also interested in classical music"). The display could have a "contact" button which could initiate a voice chat or could teleport you to the person's virtual office door. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Matthew Hunt | | Keywords | tool, web-integration | | Comments | I am planning to do this for my undergraduate CS (Computer Science) project. I think it is a great idea which is open to many different interpretations and consequently implementations. I keep thinking "3D Myspace". |
[WonderlandWhiteboard3D Whiteboard] (medium)| Description | Enhance the existing functionality of the SVG whiteboard with one or more of the following features: inline text editing, freedraw, save, open, resizing. I am imagining functionality similar to theThinkature whiteboard. Extra credit for integrating physical electronic whiteboard technology such as eBeam. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app | | Comments | I think it is indeed a must. However, it can already be achieved by launching some painting program. Something like mspaint in Windows. I don't know X Windows that well, but there must be an equivalent. Am I wrong? |
Moving Stairs (medium)| Description | Moving stairs like those in shopping centers. It's another way of teleporting but more natural for people that see a 3D world for the first time. It is not clear how moving stairs can interact with "Walk Together". | | Proposer | Arthur Stanek | | Volunteers | Jason(bigbjason) and Morris | | Keywords | app, 3D | | Comments | I, with the help of Morris's scripting power, have decided to take this up. I can provide the models and basic animation and Morris can apply the start/stop and other action scripts to them. We should be able to use this with not only the stairs but many other objects. Like in SL, we should, with the help of Morris, be able to have them move/not move with the click of a mouse. |
Navigation Aids (medium)| Description | For some business and education users, learning to navigate in a virtual space is a substantial usability barrier. Design and implement several mechanisms that simplify avatar navigation. This might include, for example, a [#Follow_me_Navigation_small[f'ollow-me]] feature that allows a user attach themselves to another live or simulated user to be guided around the world. Another potential idea is to allow users to instruct their avatars to walk automatically to nearby 'interesting' artifacts such as the nearest person, application, or chair. Avatars could automatically adjust the speed at which they walk based on their distance to the objective. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, avatar | | Comments | comments go here |
3D Brainstorming Tool Based on WonderBlocks (medium to large)| Description | WonderBlocks is a basic 3D graphing tool. Extend WonderBlocks such that multiple users can quickly create WonderBlocks that represent ideas in a brainstorming session as if the blocks were 3D sticky notes. Devise easy ways for the blocks to be organized, grouped, keyworded, sorted, and re-colored during a brainstorming session. Extra credit for figuring out a way to export the block content and organization to a standard spreadsheet, text or graphics format. Automatic ways to organize and re-organize blocks based on authors, keywords, or colors is another possible feature. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
3D Visualisation of Search Results (medium to large)Physics World (large)| Description | Create a world completely driven by physics (all moveable objects, apps, hud, ....). For example, when an avatar bumps into objects, they move or fall over, depending on the forces and mass. In-world controls drop to the ground. | | Proposer | Doug Twilleager | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | world, physics, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Music generation (large)| Description | Combine physics, the Java midi interface, and the audio bridge for a dynamic music creation world. Provide some objects in world that respond to user interactivity by moving/falling/vibrating, each of which creates a pitch and tempo. Use this to create music (well, noise at least). | | Proposer | Bernard Horan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | music, physics | | Comments | comments go here |
Sensor integration (large)| Description | Provide an interface from a Sun SPOT or other external sensor to represent data in the world, or to control an avatar. Bonus points for providing an object in the virtual world that will control a physical robot in the real world. | | Proposer | Bernard Horan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, sensors | | Comments | comments go here |
Wonderland Virtual Reality (large)| Description | Hook up a head-mounted-display and headphones to a wonderland client, a gyro-enabled Sun SPOT to provide a 3d immersive VR world using Wonderland. Use the SPOT to determine the user/avatar position in WL, from some starting point. | | Proposer | Name | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, sensors, world | | Comments | comments go here |
GamesSnowman Ultimate! (medium)| Description | Bring the Darkstar Snowman game into Wonderland and enhance the game with the collaborative features (e.g. voice) of Wonderland. | | Proposer | Jordan Slott | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | game, world | | Comments | comments go here |
Virtual Obstacle Course (medium)| Description | As a means of helping new users learn navigation skills, create an obstacle course in which two or more avatars can compete in a timed race. Each avatar may have his or her own instance of the course. The courses could be dynamically added to accommodate the number of avatars who wish to compete. Scores could be posted on boards both in the current world and in other Wonderland worlds. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | game, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Kick the Can (medium)| Description | Avatar version of kids kick-the-can game, a combination of hide-and-seek and tag. The game is appealing in virtual worlds since it is meant to be played on neighborhood streets. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | game, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Wizard Chess (large)Dodge Ball (large)| Description | Create a virtual world version of the popular team sport, Dodgeball. | | Proposer | Deron Johnson | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | game, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Soccer (large)| Description | Create a virtual world for playing Soccer in which live players can compete against one another with or without simulated players. Net size and field size could change dynamically based on the number of players. | | Proposer | Nigel Simpson | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | game, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Scavenger Hunt (large)| Description | A collaborative scavenger hunt game. | | Proposer | Doug Twilleager | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | game, 3D, world | | Comments | comments go here |
Game Lobby (large)| Description | A game lobby with in-world game launcher. | | Proposer | Doug Twilleager | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | game, world | | Comments | comments go here |
World Creation and Assembly3D Labels (small)| Description | Add a feature to Wonderland in which users can enter the text of a label. Convert the label into a 3D object that the user can then place anywhere in the 3D world. Extra credit for snapping the text label to walls, floors, and objects for easy placement of labels on 3D objects in the world. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Poster Maker (small)| Description | Worlds such as the MPK20 world contain poster boards which are hand-created. Create a new module that will enable users to create new poster boards in world using any image that is accessible via a URI. | | Proposer | Bernard Horan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app | | Comments | comments go here |
Animation Toolkit (medium)| Description | Build a set of animations that developers can use to build nicely animated 3D applications. For example, create a 3D cover flow animation for viewing a slide show as a carousel or a Cooliris implementation for Flickr. | | Proposer | Nigel Simpson | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Physics World Assembly (medium)| Description | Add physics to the world assembly tools such that objects snap to the floor or can be pushed flush against walls. | | Proposer | Paul Byrne | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, 3D, physics | | Comments | comments go here |
Processing in Wonderland (medium)| Description | The Processing framework is a popular Java-based visualization framework used by artists and researchers. This project would be to port Processing into Wonderland as a mechanism for building 2D applications, and add primitives for synchronizing visualizations across multiple users. | | Proposer | Jonathan Kaplan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool | | Comments | comments go here |
Graffiti (medium)| Description | Push whiteboard painting ability onto all textures so people can graffiti/markup any in-world surface or object. | | Proposer | Paul Byrne | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Avatar Animation (large)| Description | Simplify the process of creating avatar animations for Wonderland avatars. Investigate the possibility of using the free Animeeple tool. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, 3D | | Comments | comments go here |
Tools & UtilitiesImproved Audio (medium)| Description | High-fidelity, spatialized audio is critical for the type of collaboration Open Wonderland enables. The Wonderland audio system uses a custom softphone that connects to the Wonderland voice bridge. Currently, audio is sent as unencoded PCM data, which results in high quality, but also requires significant bandwidth. A major improvement to the audio system would be to investigate various audio encodings that could transmit the same high quality audio using much less bandwidth. A second critical improvement would be the addition of an acoustic echo canceler into the Wonderland softphone, allowing people to use Wonderland with open microphones and speakers. We have done some investigation into alternate audio encodings, in particular using the SPEEX codec, but this work is incomplete. Potential projects include updating the SPEEX integration to work with Wonderland, integrating newer versions of SPEEX (which include echo cancellation), or investigating and implementing alternate audio encodings in the Wonderland softphone and voice bridge. | | Proposer | Jonathan Kaplan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, business, education, audio | | Comments | comments go here |
Follow-me Navigation (small)| Description | To ease the burden of navigation for new users or others trying to focus on another task, provide a feature that allows for one or more people to follow a "leader" avatar. You could right-click on an avatar and select "follow." Following stays in effect until an avatar starts to navigate independently. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, business, education, 3D, avatar | | Comments | comments go here |
Improved Telepointers (small)| Description | Telepointers are remote cursors that other users can see. Improve the look of the existing 3D telepointer and add telepointers designed specifically for 2D applications. Telepointers typically include the names of the people controlling them and are used for both pointing and gesturing. There is a demonstration of telepointers in an earlier version of the PDF Viewer about half-way through this video of the Sun Labs Meeting Suite. Make this project more challenging by creating 3D pointers that people can use to point and gesture to 3D objects. | | Proposer | Deron Johnson | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool | | Comments | This has been done as is part of Project Wonderland v0.5 |
Hand-held Microphone (small)| Description | Create a hand-held microphone such that any avatar can temporarily make themselves heard by talking into the microphone. Add a feature that allows people to adjust the volume radius either in meters or with respect to the world hierarchy (ie, whole room, whole building, whole world). | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, business, education, avatar, audio | | Comments | comments go here |
Presenter Avatar Animation (medium)| Description | To make avatars giving presentations more dynamic, create a presenter avatar animation that causes the presenter's avatar to walk around a defined area, gesture, and look at audience members. Speed up the avatar animations and amplify hand gestures as the speaker's voice becomes more excited. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, business, education, avatar, audio | | Comments | comments go here |
Jabber-Based Instant Messaging (medium)| Description | Add instant messaging capability to Wonderland that integrates with Jabber which allows for both group chat and private text chat. Provide the user with an indication of each other user's presence and availability, based on those users' jabber indicators. Allow text messaging between Wonderland users as well as out-worlders. Provide an indication of who is in-world and who is not. For extra credit, create a 3D buddy list as described next. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool | | Comments | comments go here |
3D Buddy List (medium)| Description | In addition to including standard instant messaging functionality that works with Jabber, features could include viewing a window into the virtual location where your buddy currently is, teleporting to your buddy's location, inviting your buddy to teleport to your location, and initiating a private voice chat with your buddy (the Sun Labs Voice Bridge already supports this functionality, so this would just be creating a user interface for it). | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | app | | Comments | comments go here |
Data Collection Module (medium)| Description | Using the list on the DataCollection page as guide, design a module to collect and display data helpful for evaluating the effectiveness of a particular virtual world. For example, in a given Wonderland world, collect data needed to create a "heat map" of avatar activity in order to visualize the places in the world that are most heavily visited by users. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, analysis | | Comments | comments go here |
ChatBot (medium)| Description | Automated, or scripted, avatars, often incorporating artificial intelligence. Also known as Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in the gaming world. Daden have created an architecture that looks like it could be employed in Wonderland. For information see their web page: http://www.daden.co.uk/chatbots.htm. | | Proposer | Bernard Horan | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | Avatar, Simulation | | Comments | comments go here |
Improved Snapshot / Module Creation Mechanism (medium)| Description | Create a feature such that users can easily export entire Wonderland worlds or portions of Wonderland worlds for backup purposes and for sharing with others. Users should be able to create a multiple selection of objects and export these into a single file that can be imported into the same or a different Wonderland server. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, web-integration | | Comments | comments |
Server Monitoring Tools (medium)| Description | The web-based Wonderland server administration console currently provides only a very minimal amount of real-time information. This project would involve instrumenting the Wonderland server in order to collect real-time data such as the number of users currently on the server, the amount of bandwidth each client is consuming, how audio is being used, and answers to other real-time questions that will help Wonderland system administrators better understand how their Wonderland server is being used and the resources it is consuming at any given time. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, web-integration | | Comments | comments |
Smartphone Client (large)| Description | Prototype a Wonderland client that can run on a smartphone such as the iPhone or an Android phone. This project involves figuring out a way to create a simplified version of the 3D geometry and avatars. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, web-integration | | Comments | comments |
Real-time Data Capture for More Expressive Avatars (large)| Description | In virtual worlds it's often difficult to tell how remote people are reacting. If we could capture real data from the humans driving the avatars, it would be possible to make avatars much more responsive. Here are just a few examples. With a simple eye tracker, you could properly position an avatar's head to show what the human is looking at in the world. A laptop camera could capture head gestures and facial expressions. A seat sensor could trigger presence information, figuring out when a person is around or away. A motion sensor and accelerometer on a wristwatch could potentially detect certain arm gestures and translate those into avatar animations. A speech detector could automatically set an avatar's state to busy. A simple thermometer could change the in-world scenery to either match the real world climate or be the opposite (on cold days, a person might want to see a warm beach outside their virtual window :-) | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, avatar, sensors | | Comments | I think I get at what you're trying to say. That is, non verbal communication is as important in a virtual environment as it is in the real world. The challenge is to capture that in a non-intrusive (real world) way. Ideally someone who wants to interact with the virtual world should be able to do so without having to use cumbersome headsets or data gloves, etc. |
Real-time Data Capture for More Dynamic Worlds (large)| Description | Virtual environments are often static places. Using sensor data or other dynamic data feeds from the web, dynamically change attributes of the world. For example, a simple thermometer could change the in-world scenery to either match the real world climate or be the opposite (on cold days, a person might want to see a warm beach outside their virtual window. In another example, environmental sensors monitoring water quality, air quality, etc. could be used to change parameters in the 3D world, either alerting people to dangers, calling them to action, or simply reflecting the current conditions. | | Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | tool, web-integration, sensors | | Comments | comments |
Keywords- 3D - requires substantial amount of 3D programming (Note: almost all projects require some 3D programming)
- analysis - feature is related to analyzing activity in the virtual world
- app - new Wonderland application
- audio - feature or application that involves audio or audio processing
- avatar - project is in some way related to avatars
- business - business or e-commerce related
- education - teaching, learning, or other education-related project
- game - a game
- music - involves music
- physics - involves integrating with a physics engine
- sensors - project involves sensor integration
- simulation - involves creating a simulation
- social - involves social networking
- tool - a general feature that can be used in multiple applications
- video - involves video in some way
- web-integration - involves integration with a web service or tool
- world - a complete virtual world or space
TemplateBLANK TABLE FOR COPY/EDITING Project Idea (level of effort: small, medium, large)| Description | Description | | Proposer | Name | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Keywords | see-list-below | | Comments | comments go here |
Desired FeaturesThis is a list of potential new features to add to Project Wonderland. If you are thinking of contributing to the project, please review this list and see if you might be able to build any of these features. Please feel free to add to this list as you think of new ideas that would enhance the Wonderland environment. Larger ProjectsSee Project Proposals Smaller ProjectsTeleport with Approach| Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Description | Add the ability to teleport to different locations in the world. Care must be taken to include visual and auditory "approach" indicators so that people in world know when someone is about to enter the space. This is important so that the person teleporting in does not accidentally overhear any current conversation. | | Comments | What about being able to lock the space, like you would lock a door for privacy? So this would sound like a knock at the door perhaps, and maybe an "aura" for visual approach |
Walk Together| Proposer | Nicole Yankelovich | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Description | Add a command that allows you to temporarily attach your avatar to another (willing) avatar so that you go whereever the other person goes. This would make it easier for two or more people to have an ongoing conversation with only one person having to focus attention on navigation. This might be helpful for applications like guided tours. Pressing any navigation key would unattach your avatar and allow you to navigate on your own. | | Comments | comments go here |
Commercial-friendly license| Proposer | Endre Stølsvik | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Description | Change license from GPL til something "business-friendly", BSD-style or at least LGPL. It would be fantastic if this could be used as a basis for other commercial products. If one made it into LGPL, then any changes to the actual platform would have to be collaborated back. BSD-style would allow a bit more "rip-offish" code-use by commercial products - but why not? I believe in the end most such changes would come back one way or the other - look at Apache. | | Comments | I couldn't agree more. Is this a possibility. I am currently in the design phase of a project that I could use this for but it is a commercial project. | | | I couldn't disagree more regarding BSD licensing. I have seen projects with BSD and MIT licenses get ripped off and commercially extended with no changes given back to the project. In one specific case, the commercial product became an award winning industry tool whereas the open-source project from which the commercial product was built went extinct. I have no problems with the LGPL license and if that would encourage more adoption, then I'm all for it. |
Desktop Sharing| Proposer | Arthur Stanek | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Description | Ability to share whole desktop (screen, mouse and keyboard) will open Wonderland for help desk and e-learning markets. It also helps in collaboration and presentations - like application sharing feature. First avatar can ask second one to share its desktop inside world. This feature requires make use of java.awt.Robot or platform specific desktop sharing software to be available (javax.jnlp.DownloadService ?) from Wonderland clients. | | Comments | I'd love this one |
Improved Movement of Avatar (like in ego-shooter)| Proposer | Christian Beer | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Description | Movement in Wonderland is quite unintuitive. In first-person ego-shooter the avatar is moved using the mouse + wasd-keys (where a and d are step left/right instead of turn). This movement would a lot easier than it is now, I think. | | Comments | comments go here |
Provide a laser pointer for in-world presentations and cooperation| Proposer | Volker Gaessler | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Description | Create a pointing device that makes it possible to point at the screens and whitboards. Ideally this would be a laser pointer an avatar can hold in his/her hand. It should be possible to switch the color so that a number of people can point at the same time. In order to make it effective, it shall be possible to use the mouse for controlling the spot the laser pointer points at. The laser pointer shall follow the the mouse movement. | | Comments | comments go here |
Applet version of the client| Proposer | Davide P | | Volunteers | Unassigned | | Description | Create an applet version of the wonderland client in order to use a web browser to navigate in wonderland | | Comments | comments go here |
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