After 6 months of hard work Corus 0.0.1 was released today. It contains from-scratch viewer Naali, and Taiga, Modrex/Opensim based server suite. Taiga, also known as realxtend server 0.5, works with the old realxtend viewer too.
Greetings from the realXtend team! Today we will release new
versions of realXtend software, including a new world server (0.5)
based on ModreX technology and the first taste of the new viewer
and server technologies we have been working on since the beginning
of this year. The local development teams will be on (well
deserved) vacation for most of July, but we will be back in action
in August.
The latest versions can be found on our website at
www.realxtend.org. You can also check out the videos of our
experimental technology in action at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwUdRiR6HS0&feature=related
This is what Mr. Ryan McDougall, the project's lead Architect,
has to say about the new technology:
"realXtend project is proud to announce a Developer Preview
Release for it's new project Corus (previously "realXtend - Next
Generation"), an effort to redesign the realXtend platform to
handle future, "next generation" applications as they develop.
Included is the new Virtual World Viewer, codenamed Naali; and a
suite of customized Virtual World Servers codenamed, Taiga.
Naali is Finnish for "Arctic Fox", and Taiga is the boreal
forest and tundra where Naali may be found.
Naali is designed and written entirely from scratch to be a
multi-use 3D world viewer; enabling everything from games,
conferences, education and collaboration spaces, industrial
modelling and beyond. With it's modular plug-in architecture, Naali
is intended to be extensible by plug-in developers to suit any
Virtual World Application. It is written in C++ and Python, and
uses the Ogre3D graphics rendering engine to provide its modern
visual experience.
Taiga is comprised of ModreX running on OpenSimulator
for real-time 3D application hosting, and CableBeach for federated authorization and
content distribution.
The Developer Preview Release is the culmination of the past 6
months of work at realXtend, and is only suitable for experienced
developers. It is not recommended for regular use.
Project Corus, version 0.0.1, is considered "Pre-Alpha"
software, meaning it is quite new, and there are many missing
features and untidy areas of intensive development. We would like
to use this announcement to invite interested software developers
to check out our work, give us feedback, and maybe even join our
community. To follow development of the project at any time, please
visit the development website at http://dev.realxtend.org/gf/project/.
Naali is released under the Apache 2.0 license, and Taiga is
released under their respective BSD-based licenses."
The preview releases and more information can be found here: http://wiki.realxtend.org/index.php/Main_Page#Project_Corus
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