Green Phosphor has been showing off its new data
interaction technology which allows punters to walk around their database in 3D
Green Phosphor's Glasshouse service lets users move around 3D representations
of data in virtual worlds and could make virtual world services such as Second
Life and Sun’s Wonderland more useful.
Glasshouse works with data from Excel spreadsheets or SQL
databases and uses Green Phosphor’s Content Injection and Control Protocol
(CICP) to provide the presentation of data across multiple virtual world
platforms. Using an avatar data, drill into it, re-sort it, and
explore it interactively by walking (or flying) around it. Glasshouse produces
graphs that are “avatars” of the data itself.
Currently the outfit is tailoring the system for the use
of biotech companies, specifically for drug discovery and development. The company’s beta release provides a client-side Java
applet that interfaces between your data and the Green Phosphor CICP Hub that
routes the 3D rendition of the data to your target virtual world.