Tuesday 18 April 2006

Croquet SDK 1.0 Beta Released!

The Croquet Software Developers’ Kit 1.0 Beta has been released. This represents the first complete public release of the core Croquet technology. Croquet is a new open source software platform for creating deeply collaborative multi-user online applications. It features a network architecture that supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation among multiple users. Using Croquet, software developers can create powerful and highly collaborative multi-user 2D and 3D applications and simulations.

Sunday 9 April 2006

Croquet Technology Featured at NACS's CONTEXT 2006

Julian Lombardi demonstrated Croquet as the ‘Digital Classroom of Tomorrow” as an invited speaker at the National Association of College Stores annual meeting in Reno, Nevada on April 8th, 2006.

Thursday 6 April 2006

Croquet Presented at Southern Graphics Conference

University of Wisconsin Art Professor Michael Connors demonstrated Croquet as the potential future of the artistic critique at the Southern Graphics Council Conference on printmaking. The demonstration was based on Prof. Connors' classroom use of Croquet for critical discourse and ePortfolios.

Monday 3 April 2006

Campus Croquet Users Win award at UW-Madison Showcase

A group of administrative staff at the University of Wisconsin - Madison used Croquet to exhibit their group's work at a campus-wide exhibition of new ideas and best practices called Showcase. In their spare time over a few few weeks, this group built their own 3D multimedia wiki in this first-ever sustained end-user Croquet activity. The group was rewarded with a "Most Interactive" award presented by the Chancellor.