Feature List for Project Wonderland 0.4 Release

Setup

• Launch application by invoking Java command or via Java Web Start link
• Login with or without authentication
  • includes LDAP or password file system administrator options
• Network configuration (set local IP address, proxies)
• Set default audio quality
• Option to connect with VoIP audio or telephone audio
• Clear Wonderland cache

General

• Renders 3D worlds with live and simulated avatars
• Includes 3D animated objects
• User list, including audio indicators (shows speaking, mute)
• Status window with Asset Manager showing status of loading 3D models
• Status window includes frames-per-second and ping time monitoring
• Chat panel for global text chat
• Softphone window (primarily utility provided for troubleshooting)
• Camera modes (1st person, 3rd person, orbit)
• View Properties (field of view, front clip, back clip)
• Set maximum frame rate
• Placemarks for navigating to specified locations
  • Pre-define placemarks set by system administrator
  • User-defined placements
• Goto Wonderland Resource Locater (WRL)

Avatar Navigation and Gestures

• Forward, backward, side-to-side
• Up/down
• Gravity on/off
• Collision detection on/off
• Speed up / slow down
• Wave
• Nod and shake head
• Point

Avatar configuration

• Change gender
• Change hair and clothing color
• Change glasses and facial hair styles

Audio

• Adjust audio quality from telephone quality to CD quality
• Speaking indicator (avatar name lights up)
• Mute/unmute (indicated with square brackets around avatar name)
• Adjust overall volume of all in-world audio
• Individually adjust volume of any in-world audio source, including other avatars, recorded avatar audio, video, music, etc.
• Cone-of-silence for private voice chat
• Microphones for amplified audio
• Tools for troubleshooting audio problems (Softphone window, test audio, log audio problem)
• Reconnect softphone (use when changing audio devices)

Telephone Integration

• Log in with avatar connected to telephone audio
• Transfer call - transfer avatar audio from softphone to telephone (and back)
• Virtual telephone
  • Dial out to any number of landline or cell phones
  • Use keypad to enter tones (e.g., for joining conference calls or responding to voice menus)
  • Password protection to protect against unauthorized calling
  • Unlock phone for single call or until re-locked
  • Simulated call mode for experimenting with phone features without placing real calls
• Dial in to virtual telephone
  • Touch tone interface to disambiguate multiple in-world telephones
  • Telephone users can use keypad to mute/unmute and adjust volume
• Telephone users represented as orbs
• Pick up, carry, and put down telephone users
• Adjust volume of phone users
• Disconnect phone users

Application Sharing

• System administrator controls to set up server-side sharing of X Windows applications (requires Solaris or Linux server)
  • Tested applications include Firefox, Open Office, NetBeans, Terminal, Calculator
• Client-side sharing of X Windows applications (requires Solaris or Linux server)
• Best view mode for X Windows applications
• Multiple applications running in world at the same time can be controlled by different people
• PDF Viewer - multi-user application for sharing slides and other PDF documents
  • Synchronize and unsynchronize with presenter
• VNC - share Windows or other desktops
• Video player
  • Play recorded video
  • Connect to web cam video
  • Video panorama for Axis PTZ camera
• Shared Whiteboard
• Window manipulation
  • Move windows side to side
  • Rotate windows
  • Move windows forward and backward

Content Creation

• Import 3D model (x3d format) directly into world
  • Upload only to local client
  • Deploy uploaded models to server
• World Builder - web-based tool for creating or editing 3D spaces
  • Can be mapped to discrete portion of the world
  • Includes extensible catalog of art assets
  • Reload world command to update running world with artwork changes

Recording

• Audio recorder for capturing audio conversations
• Video recorder for capturing audio and visuals

In-world Documentation