NASA Virtual World Lab

NASA researchers and engineers are collaborating in a new NASA CoLab in San Francisco using Second Life to create virtual worlds:

http://www.nasacolab.org/nasa-annual-budget-is-sacrificed-over-war_156

With cloud computing and mobile pads emerging fast, we will see educators, students, professionals and families creating and playing in virtual worlds, which would be excellent for communicating and collaborating in new ways. NASA CoLab reminds me of the first video games, which were slow and blocky, but rapidly progressed to photorealism that we know today.

In Sweden, JIBS.se is collaborating with UmbilicalDesign.se, a design adviser to NASA Houston and the European Space Agency, to commercialize space technologies for sustainable earth products and services. CoLab would be the ideal vehicle for engaging companies, schools, and cities who are collaborating with us.