IBM spends 3 million dollar to make Internet three-dimensional and fictitious Forbidden City

October 11, 2008

Dispatch of sina science and technology on October 11 message, the 3 years of development, 3D fictitious Forbidden City that costs 3 million dollar begins all previous classics 10 days to go up in Internet external ” open ” . This one project is apply SOA to reach what develop along with the computational resource that needs meet an emergency by IBM, and free donates museum of the Imperial Palace.

   The line on 3D fictitious Forbidden City

October 10 is the celebration day that museum of the Imperial Palace builds a courtyard 83 years, that day, the name that develops by museum of the Imperial Palace and IBM combination is ” surmount spatio-temporal Forbidden City ” 3D fictitious world is started formally external.

According to introducing, fictitious Forbidden City undertook to archaic building, cultural relic and character high resolution, careful 3D builds a model, the person can be reached in the structure of the Imperial Palace with the three-dimensional emersion on Internet, cultural relic. IBM still cooperates with Chinese historian, by Chinese actor imitate the real action of personage of palace of bright Qing Dynasty, course of all sorts of royal setting, tourist guide and interactive activity are made on this foundation.

Besides be in through three-dimensional means on Internet outside emersion Forbidden City, IBM returned amid to join interactive, for instance with ramble at the same time communication chats on the tourist net of fictitious Forbidden City; With on-line volunteer, staff member communication; Play go, bottle cricket, archery, view the activity such as imperial drive board and palace brushwork.

The user wants to ramble on the net fictitious Forbidden City, need downloads the software of a 200 much size to official website Beyondspaceandtime.org first, just can begin to have a good swim after installation fictitious world. Fictitious Forbidden City supports Mac of Windows, apple and Linux computer platform.

Fictitious Forbidden City is the another project of Internet of hug of bequest of culture of help of technology of IBM have the aid of. Inside more than 10 years before this, the project such as palace of history of descendants of Africa of the Egypt that IBM had finished Vatican library, eternity, United States and culture country museum, winter.

   IBM SOA technology and along with need meet an emergency to make fictitious Forbidden City

IBM company is in charge of this project Introduction John Tolva, project of fictitious Forbidden City used the most advanced SOA mode compose to build a solution to reach along with the computational resource that needs meet an emergency.

Project of fictitious Forbidden City used IBM a series of custom-built the compositive product that turn and service, include database of WebSphere application server, Advanced ESB, DB2, development engine is on the Torque game engine of GarageGames undertook improvement, the design of whole project, development and test have the aid of at tool of IBM Rational software.

In the moving platform respect of fictitious Forbidden City, of the server of IBM razor blade of Linux, can support thousands of person at the same time online.

John Tolva says, the SOA technology that fictitious Forbidden City uses lets all sorts of data and outside exchange rise more convenient, the user also can communicate freely in fictitious world. (Xiong Li)

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