We are proud to announce that Designing Digitally Inc. has collaborated with other organizations to come up with a way which we can solve the virtual environment dilemma we continue to face. After almost each presentation we find that the feedback is in regards to installing a client side of the VE, and about security issues with opening up security ports potentially making organizations vulnerable to attacks on their internal network. Designing Digitally Inc. is now using Java technology to build a complex VE for corporations and institutions to use via a web browser such as IE and Firefox. So if you are connecting to a publicly available world hosted over the Internet, you do not need to explicitly download the client software. What our team will be doing is building the entire system and then will publish a URL; simply point your web browser to that URL and the client software will download automatically and will be cached on your client for future use.  How cool is that? Future of VE's here we come! For more information on how we can use this system to your advantage contact us today! Keep your eyes out for screen shots coming soon!

Great news everyone! Here at Designing Digitally Inc. we have solved the biggest issue we have faced with many of our VE clients. One of the biggest problems is security. Many corporations do not want to open ports for security reasons in order to connect with the worlds currently made out there. Most educational institutions have liability issues due to students having access to other people in world and they cannot determine who exactly is behind that avatar.

Therefore our talented crew has been diligently working on a VE that will allow our clients to install the server side software on their internal server allowing them to keep the entire VE inside their firewalled network. This revolution will allow for private corporate and educational meetings without having to deal with the issues inside Second Life, and Activeworlds. It also gives full control to the client for the system by having it installed directly into their network. Did I mention it is cross platform?

 On the left you will find the server and on the right you find our client connected to the server! See below:

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We know some of you must be asking "Hey Designing Digitally, whats up with your Second Life projects?!" Well for all of you out there, we want to show you a few pictures of the concepts we are working on for a project (we'll just call CCC):

First some walkway concepts:

Here are a few of the awesome building concepts:

Pretty sweet huh?

Now I can't give to much info about the buildings but I will say one is an info building, and one is a museum, you can probably guess which ones is which :o)

You may also be pleased to hear our golf course project is in the final stages, just need approval from the client and we will be getting that island opened up. Keep an eye out next week for some pics and more info on the project!

We are proud to announce that due to the hard work and excellent proposal writing of our team we have won a project to build a custom CMS system for a government organization! We are very excited to be able to have the privilege of developing this complex system. The sad part for those of you that read this blog is that we cannot disclose any specific information about it. But what I can tell you is that we are excited to develop this custom content management system due to it's ability to push the boundaries of how we use these systems currently. Although we can't give you much info, all of us here in the office are excited and we just wanted to share with someone....and well our blog takes the punishment this time! LOL!