Posts Tagged ‘opensim’

Sparkle IM Version 1.3.3 Released

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Hey everyone!

We’ve just released Sparkle IM version 1.3.3 in the AppStore today.

New features include:

  • In-app email of chat and IM logs (for iPhone OS 3.0 users only)
  • X,Y,Z support in the custom start location screen
  • Support for alternate chat channels using the “/#” command
  • Fixed some potential crashes for some users
  • “Japan” location added to the start locations

The “Japan” location in Second Life is for Sparkle users who want a common space to hang out in.  You can chat with other Sparkle users, or sometime catch some Genkii-ites on there as well.

Many of our added features come from user requests.  The best place to request new features is on our GetSatisfaction page.  We are happy to hear your input and feedback, so please keep it coming!

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Genkii’s New App Sparkle on Techcrunch!

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Genkii is very excited to have an article up now on Techcrunch about Sparkle IM, our first virtual world application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The article also goes into some detail about our upcoming developments in Sparkle.

We hope Sparkle IM will be of use to current Second Life and Opensim users and that everyone else is excited about the direction of Sparkle 3D! Check it out and let us know what you think.

-Ken

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China, Astrophysics, Informatics, and Virtual Worlds

Friday, July 4th, 2008

We’ve been crazy busy here in the Genkiiverse, so sorry for the silence. Adam and I took a trip to Shanghai and Beijing, meeting up with our partners at Fix8 , the crew at HiPiHi , and one of our new partners, iLemon .

iLemon provides solutions for custom 2D and 2.5D virtual worlds. Based in Shanghai, they’ll help us extend our options for creating virtual world presences for clients. Check out their site.

We’ve also partnered with two exciting academic institutions working in virtual worlds.

The National Institute of Informatics (NII) is located in Tokyo, and is doing a wide range of research in virtual worlds. Led by Dr. Helmut Prendinger , their projects include the development of a Multimodal Presentation Markup Language 3D (MPML3D) , allowing improved scripting for interactions between virtual world bots and users. Genkii will help NII distribute their ideas to a wider group of users.

The Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA) is using virtual worlds for large-scale simulations and visualization of astronomical data. Astronomers and researchers from a number of universities and institutions including Dr. Piet Hut from Princeton and Dr. Jun Makino from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan . Genkii will help MICA with explorations and development in OpenSim, and assist in facilitating support for this research from interested companies.

So, yeah. Lots and varied news. But there’s more to come!

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