Remote control of a radio station using realXtend
Posted by on December 21, 2008 under News | 
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[via radio arcala]
A virtual radio station was built using realXtend 0.31 platform. It was connected to a real amateur radio station to enable remote control.
The text at the web site states that: “In this live demonstration new techniques of Internet and the first ever global community of amateur radio will allow mixing the edge of virtual world and real life when operating remote located HF-radio station thru virtual world. In demonstration virtual world is executed with realXtend, next generations open source platform for virtual worlds.”
radio Arcala antennas, aerial view
This kind of use of virtual worlds for real world control is also demonstrated by Implenia, a swiss construction firm. I believe that the real world control cases offer interesting possibilites for virtual worlds in the future. One of the realXtend project’s core missions was, and still is to enable good interfaces between real and virtual, to enable applications just like this.
