The virtual ribbon cutting ceremony for Sun Center of Excellence (COE) held by Sun and Saint Paul College on January 21 celebrated the opening of Open Virtual Worlds. The virtual audience will be comprised of local and remote students attending the college of Computer Science at St. Paul College.

Welcoming students to COE, the video tour of the St. Paul College Northstar environment using Sun’s Project Wonderland Platform shows the basic layout of the virtual world. A sneak peak of the virtual world included a tour through the main room with tables, and, in the back of the room, there were the machines that run the virtual worlds as well as many other worlds. The entire server room is dedicated to the St. Paul College Computer Science Department.

The COE has two classrooms that both have Sun Ray 2FS Virtual Display Clients. These devices provide students with a great way to explore the Solaris environment. In one of the classrooms, they are setting up world's largest MiRTLE (Mixed Reality Teaching and Learning Environment) implementation.

"The object of MiRTLE is to provide a mixed reality environment for a combination of local and remote students in a traditional instructive higher education setting."

The technology demonstration at the center supports the work of The Education Grid and advances the global build-out of an open network of servers used by the Immersive Education Initiative and the Media Grid. St. Paul College President Donovan Schichtenberg, Sun Microsystems VP of Education Joe Hartley, and Grid Institute Director Aaron Walsh were on hand for the event, which officially opened the college’s Virtual Northstar campus. The campus will offer classes beginning Fall 2009.

About Sun Ray2 2FS

Sun Ray virtual display clients deliver extremely secure interoperable desktop computing— without the maintenance, upgrading, and operational costs of desktop computers. The Sun Ray 2FS virtual display client adds two unique distinctions: Its built-in fiber optic port makes it an ultra-secure desktop, and its native dual-head capabilities (similar to Xinerama) allows you to connect two displays without the need for a PCI extension card.

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