> this meant they had came across Sun’s Project Wonderland - the delightfully terrible 3D virtual workplace of the future (or so Sun thought, before they had to

> this meant they had came across Sun’s Project Wonderland - the delightfully terrible 3D virtual workplace of the future (or so Sun thought, before they had to sell to Oracle.) It was terrible, barely a good demo ... It required something like 32 CPUs and 64G of memory to run the server for just 8 players That brings back some awful memories. Project Wonderland was a great idea, a federated open source second life, but it was plagued by java and the architecture astronauts java so frequently attracts. I thought it would be ideal to setup a training/simulation system for our web based software, it had an inbuilt browser and assets we could script, but trying to run just the client on my 2GB laptop was too much. Second Life was incredibly slow and ugly but this was an order of magnitude worse in every way. I think if I were trying to do the same thing today unity would be a far easier path.