WonderBuilders Enters MassChallenge Competition
As part of growing the VMed Learning Space business, WonderBuilders has entered the MassChallenge start-up competition. The VMed Learning Space substantially enhances communication and teamwork skills training for nurses and other health professionals. By providing medical programs with virtual clinical settings, VMed Learning Space enables students to polish their bedside manner, practice working in teams, and rehearse procedures ranging such as shift change protocols or assisting in the operating theater.
WonderBuilders sees business applications in Online virtual working worlds
Today, WonderBuilders is building an online world, set to launch in September, for STCC students to hang out in any time of day or night and have informal chats. It’s one of many applications of the Boston-area company’s niche: creating worlds to allow people to work together remotely, outside of a formal business setting.
STCC Awarded $549,458 Grant For Virtual ESL Instruction
Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) was recently awarded a $549,458 grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, entitled “Exploring the Virtual World of Contextualized English Language Acquisition,” will help English as a Second Language (ESL) students practice and expand their English skills in a low-pressure virtual setting. STCC submitted the proposal as part of a partnership with WonderBuilders, Inc.
30 new Singapore-made games coming your way
To help developers market and pitch their games to potential publishers, the GSC introduced a 3D virtual world known as the Singapore Games Village. Locally developed games can be showcased in the Village to prospective publishers who can then select the titles which they wish to license. (Games Village developed by WonderBuilders)
WonderBuilders Contributes New Modules
It’s been a busy summer at the newly formed WonderBuilders partnership. This is a new consulting company doing for-profit, custom Open Wonderland development for clients. Our hope in starting this small business was that a number of us from the original Wonderland team, augmented with members of the open source community, could make a living by doing proprietary Wonderland development. We believe that by focusing on specific customer use cases, we can improve the robustness and stability of the platform for everyone…
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