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Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment and software infrastructure for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and metaverses on and across multiple operating systems and devices. Derived from Squeak, it features a peer-based network architecture that supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation between multiple users on multiple devices.
Its about time. Croquet's time-based synchronization capabilities enable real-time, identical interactions between groups of users while dramatically reducing the need for server infrastructures to support virtual world deployment. Croquet's architecture makes it easy to develop deeply collaborative applications without having to spend a lot of effort and expertise in understanding how replicated applications work.
Cobalt. Cobalt is a multi-institutional community software development effort to deploy an open source production-grade metaverse browser/toolkit application built using Croquet technology.
Dollhouses to holodecks. Create a multi-user virtual world application with avatars and furniture - or create deeply customized 3D-enabled applications where any level of object and function can be implemented. Imagination is the only limitation. Using the Croquet SDK, software developers can create and link powerful, deeply efficient, and highly collaborative cross-platform multi-user 2D and 3D applications and custom simulations/data visualizations - making possible the distributed deployment of very large scale, highly functional, and interlinked peer-based virtual spaces at extremely low operating costs.
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