Uni-verse
From uvvy
Website: http://uni-verse.org/
The Uni-verse project is funded by the European Commission. Its goal is "to create an open source IP-based platform for multi-user, interactive, distributed, high-quality 3D graphics and audio for home, public and personal use. The platform will support high-quality 3D-graphics as well as high-quality 3D-audio and acoustic simulation. The goal is to create a platform that can unify the technology found in virtual reality, games, and networking to form a delivery platform for a new form of content".
The foundation of the platform is an IP network protocol for integrated dynamic 3D-graphics and 3D-audio content. This lightweight, low latency network protocol will be based on an existing protocol known as Verse developed by one of the partners. Verse is a network protocol that lets multiple applications act together as one large application by sharing data over a network. If one application makes a change to shared data, the change is distributed instantly to all the other interested clients. Note that the Verse website (http://verse.blender.org/) is hosted by Blender as the Blender Foundation is in the project team. A Blender-Verse integrated system is planned.
"The Uni-Verse platform has been developed with a vision of market development, offering innovative and future-proof opportunities for third parties to be ready for the revolution of the next decade. We have therefore identified four market segments in which the Uni-Verse platform has the potential for great impact":
The novelties in Uni-Verse are the combination of high quality audio with visual rendering and the support for distributed development and application. The currently available VR systems do not handle audio very well so there is a need for new systems that can handle audio, from authoring-tools to rendering software. Current tools don’t support collaborative development in any efficient way either - Uni-verse will enable conference and meetings using augmented reality solutions. 3D sound has important features that adds value to video conferencing. There is now a great market potential in "distributed meeting spaces". By adding 3D sound it adds new values to virtual meeting applications. Using this type of applications in the entertainment area has a great commercial potential.
