Status Report Sponsor: Rockwell Collins and Emerging Media Initiative Ben Johnston Wayne Zage Dolores Zage

LifeWerx Goal: Develop a functional and secure 3-D virtual collaboration environment to enhance the everyday professional work experience

Project Themes: In-house Secure Full internal control

History of LifeWerx: Originally funded as a SERC project by Rockwell Collins Based on Project Wonderland, a Sun Labs open source virtual world Began with work on version 0.4. Summer internship at Rockwell Collins Change to version 0.5 required a new evaluation of project priorities

Comparison between versions :

Some of the changes in 0.5 : Java3d -> jMonkeyEngine MTGame multi-threading engine Module system allowing for extensions to the virtual world in a clean manner Automatic deployment control via JNLP / modular builds Web-based administrative interface More robust experience

Features we didn’t need to make in 0.5: Enhanced avatar customization Real-time security module

The unspoken killer app: Desktop Sharing What is desktop sharing? In 0.4 we built LifeShare, a standalone program to allow for desktop sharing Complex system involving VNC server, VNC->RDP bridge (via xrdp ported to Windows) and RDP clients Maintenance was difficult and it did not integrate well With 0.5 we had to start over

The new LifeShare: Embedded VNC server to share to the X11 App Share Built-in proxies for network configuration and security concerns Wonderland’s Sun Application Sharing engine, to display and allow interaction in-world Custom plug-in to handle communication and synchronization issues

Architecture Diagram:

A screenshot of the new Lifeshare:

Future Steps: Finish work on Lifeshare including proper shutdown hooks and proxies User testing for usability and performance concerns Future funding?

Questions and Comments?