The Social Computing Room is a unique space.  There are many ways to look at the space, and one of them that is becoming quite interesting is as a ‘port’ between the emerging virtual world and the physical world.  (Here’s an example of an early experiment, and here’s a bit about a more recent project).

We are looking to push the Social Compting Room in new directions, and we invite collaborators to help us, formulate their own projects, and leverage the work that has been done.   The extensible nature of the Social Computing Room space, and the background of the Renci organization in sensors, robotics, and advanced visualization and HCI help make this a fertile ground for innovation.

So, given that, here’s a bit of fun!  We welcome you to come and visit the Social Computing Room, as well as the other visualization spaces at ITS-Manning.  In the meantime, click here to launch the Unity browser plug-in to take a quick look inside the SCR (thanks to Eric Knisley).

Hint:  launch the browser plug-in, then right click in the viewer and select ‘launch full screen’, then you can use the w,s,a,d keys to move about, and your mouse to look around!