About:
The "Virtual Universe" is a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace and virtual reality simulation. People can meet, interact with each other, build houses and whole worlds, simulate workflows, test designs, and much more. Due to its extensive programming interface, this virtual reality environment can be used for scientific and engineering tasks such as simulation and visualization applications. It also includes a terrain generator for virtual landscapes and the Java XTools, an extensive package that contains several enhancements and improvements for Java3D and Swing.

Author:
Oxygenic [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.21/10.00 (6 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.3dchat.org/
Purchase:
http://www.3dchat.org/servers.php
Demo site:
http://www.3dchat.org/[..]ww.realsimulation3d.com/webstart/vu.jnlp

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		X11 Applications
[License]		Free for non-commercial use, Freeware, OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows, Other OS, POSIX, POSIX :: BSD, Unix
[Programming Language]		C, Java
[Topic]		Communications :: Chat, Games/Entertainment, Multimedia :: Graphics

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
VR Client A client which can connect to all Virtual Universe components.	0.73	04-Jul-2008	GNU General Public License v2
Java XTools An extensive collection of enhanced functions and features for Java and Java 3D.	1.65	27-Aug-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Unaverse Server A stand alone server which controls a virtual world independent from a universe	0.55	23-Jul-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Universe Server The server which controls a world and is a master for several world servers.	0.55	08-Jul-2008	GNU General Public License v2
Virtual World Server The server software which simulates a virtual world inside a universe.	0.58	28-Jul-2008	Freeware
VU Terrain Generator A landscape creator with different types of manipulation and editing methods.	0.2	27-Aug-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] License
by shockzor - Apr 27th 2005 13:17:56

Too bad the license sucks.

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[»] Re: License
by Oxygenic - Apr 27th 2005 13:27:38


> Too bad the license sucks.

GPL and Freeware sucks? Funny...

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[»] Re: License
by Drakia - Dec 6th 2005 17:31:50


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> % Too bad the license sucks.

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> GPL and Freeware sucks? Funny...


Actually, it's not really GPL/Freeware, the client may be free, but the server (besides the world server) costs quite a bit of money to use... http://www.3dchat.org/servers.php

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[»] Re: License
by Oxygenic - Dec 6th 2005 23:02:20

Thats also not the complete truth: the worldservers are available for free and the universe of 3dchat.org can be used without ANY costs. Looks like FUD of some competitors...

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[»] Re: License
by texaskilt - Dec 9th 2005 08:44:08

From their website:

Virtual World server - Controls building in a Virtual World and requires a Universe server to run. Available for free

Unaverse server - Runs completely stand-alone and acts as one single Virtual World, this server type is not able to control sub-servers. order now!

Universe server Controls several sub-servers, runs completely stand-alone and acts as a Virtual World server for the "Center of the Universe" area order now!


So the Virtual World server is free, but you have to buy a Universe server in order to run it.


> Thats also not the complete truth: the

> worldservers are available for free and

> the universe of 3dchat.org can be used

> without ANY costs.

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> Looks like FUD of some competitors...

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[»] Re: License
by Oxygenic - Dec 11th 2005 22:25:58


> So the Virtual World server is free, but

> you have to buy a Universe server in

> order to run it.

As I said, pure FUD! To repeat it AGAIN: The Universe server of 3dchat.org can be used for free also with own worldservers, you don't have to buy anything - so whats your problem here?


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[»] Re: License
by Sputnik74 - Apr 27th 2007 13:17:49

I think he was concerned about the actual license, to whit (from the website):

15.Notice of Automatic Downloads. You acknowledge that, by your use of the Software and/or by requesting services that require use of the Software, the Software may automatically download, install, and execute software applications from sources other than Virtual Worlds ("Other Software"). Virtual Worlds makes no representations of a relationship of any kind to licensors of Other Software.

The idea of allowing some "other" software to download to your machine is pretty darn scary, you gotta admit.

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[»] Re: License
by Oxygenic - Apr 28th 2007 08:15:45


> The idea of allowing some "other"

> software to download to your machine is

> pretty darn scary, you gotta admit.

The software contains an automated update functionality and thats what you agree to with this part of the license conditions. You agree to something very similar when you install e.g. the Java runtime - here that part of the license is necessary for Java Web Start and the update functionality.

So not only the Virtual Universe software is "evil", Java seems to be too (in your opinion).

But if you can tell us how else we should describe what is necessary for the update functionality: suggestions are always welcome!


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