The open source platform, which started as an alternative to Second Life, could be a clue to how a distributed metaverse not owned by a single company could work. One open question, assuming the ...

Last month, I took you on a tour of Second Life and showed you some applications for it besides entertainment. This month, I explain how you can run your own virtual island using the Second Life ...

Engineers have developed an open source software package called OpenSim that accurately models human movement. OpenSim is free and in use across the world helping scientists understand the complex ...

Stanford researchers have developed an open-source, human-inspired robotics technology that simulates human movement and can be scaled to match individual body sizes, ages and genders. The technology, ...

An open-source movement simulator that has already helped solve problems in medicine, paleontology, and animal locomotion has been expanded and improved, according to a new publication in the ...