Microsoft today introduced the Windows XP Mode Release Candidate for Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate SKUs. Used with Intel Virtualization Technology, Windows XP Mode can help small- and medium-sized businesses migrate more efficiently from Windows XP to Windows 7 by enabling older applications to run compatibly in a virtual environment.
Last year, Intel and Microsoft funded the establishment of a Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with the goal of bringing parallel computing applications to the mainstream. At Research@Intel Day 2009, researchers demonstrated an application that the UPCRC is working on to parallelize attendees to participate in a tele-immersive 3D environment. Participants in two separate spaces engage and interact in a 3D virtual environment to complete tasks or play games such as Tele-Immersive Saber Fencing or Tele-Immersive Jump Rope. For more information, see video from Research@Intel Day 2009.
Last year, Intel and Microsoft funded the establishment of a Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with the goal of bringing parallel computing applications to the mainstream. At Research@Intel Day 2009, researchers demonstrated an application that the UPCRC is working on to parallelize attendees to participate in a tele-immersive 3D environment. Participants in two separate spaces engage and interact in a 3D virtual environment to complete tasks or play games such as Tele-Immersive Saber Fencing or Tele-Immersive Jump Rope. For more information, see video from Research@Intel Day 2009.
Imagine joining your friends who live across the country for a pickup game of softball in a virtual park, or wandering through a virtual shopping mall from the comfort of your home and trying on outfits perfectly simulated so you know they will fit, or bringing together your worldwide organization in a private, secure virtual conference center to plan next year’s strategies without having to purchase a single plane ticket. Intel is working to bring these and other immersive, connected experiences to mainstream virtual worlds by helping in the development of open-source virtual world platforms such as OpenSim. By developing such tools, which anyone can use to create a high quality virtual environment, Intel is helping to open up access for individuals, universities, and companies that want to start building the 3-D Internet of tomorrow. Intel is working with the OpenSim community to continuously improve the performance and capabilities of this platform, and is leading by partnering with the Supercomputing’09 conference to develop the ScienceSim virtual world. See OpenSim Performance Profiling to see examples of how Intel is improving the performance of not only ScienceSim, but the OpenSim platform itself. For more info, see Intel blog “ScienceSim — what could you do with a 3D internet?”