Monday, April 13, 2009

Web 2.0 databases....part deux

After performing somemore research on Greenphosphor, this is what I've found out:

Created by Green Phosphor is a gateway which can take a database query or a spreadsheet and place a 3D representation of it into a virtual world.
Allows users to take a database query or a spreadsheet and place a 3D representation of it into a virtual world.
Allows users to see data, and drill into it; re-sort it; explore it interactively.
People are represented in the virtual world as avatars and use the to interact with the data its self. (Personal Assistant)
Content Injection and Control Protocol allows applications to place interactive content into virtual worlds. By providing a standard, cross-platform way for external entities to interact with users inside a virtual 4d spacetime, CICP promotes software innovation. Here are some of the benefits:
proprietary, closed-source software can participate in open-source virtual worlds
the same version of an application can be used within multiple virtual world platforms
application intelligence resides outside the world; only temporary, spontaneously-generated content lives in the world
the complexities of in-world scripting and programming are handled by the protocol
leverages HTTP
takes advantage of virtual worlds with distributed architectures by transmitting data directly to the clients
supports fully interactive content which is essentially the "avatar" of some external program
automatically adjusts for lag when streaming content updates
Greenphosphur created CICP to function as HTTP for virtual worlds. Greenphosphur has implemented CICP for Sun Wonderland, and released it under the GPL. Greenphosphur has also implemented it in Second Life with the help of a Java servlet and released it under a BSD license. Greenphosphur is working on an OpenSimulator implementation, as well as implementations for the leading commercial virtual world platforms.
CICP was created so that data visualization gateway could work with multiple virtual world platforms.CICP will also be useful to developers of artificial intelligence services, architectural model gateways to virtual worlds, process modelling systems, and any other application which benefits from the rich collaborative environment that a virtual world offers.

I believe that this could be a useful collaborative tool that would be used to visulalize a database or spreadsheet in a 3-d environment, In my opinion, it would be difficult to come up with a situation where I would need to have a visualization where multiple folks need to analyze data of this magnitude in at the sametime. Greenphosphur first idea is to work with a drug company that is trying to model their drug discovery and development. I am sure that there is an educational opportunity where kids can interact looking at historical/mathamatical/ or scientific data. Maybe even solar system data and deepspace data telescope data.

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