Zelestra.Org is dedicated to the development of open standards and interoperable technologies to promote federated content collections as distributed virtual worlds for business, education, and entertainment. Please contact us for more information.

Goals

  • Scalability:  Allow a multitude of users to traverse a potentially Internet-sized universe of virtual worlds.
  • Extensibility:  Make virtual world development more approachable to the casual developer.
  • Marketability:  Provide the infrastructure required to create a market in virtual world software, tools, and services.
  • Enrichment:  Build an environment for both developers and users that is both educational and enjoyable.

Roles

  • Vision:  We develop and promote our vision of the future of distributed virtual worlds.
  • Design:  We design interoperable technologies to realize this vision.
  • Standardization:  We promote ourself as a forum for establishing distributed virtual world standards.

Design Principles

  • Interoperability:  Formats and protocols must be compatible with one another.
  • Evolution:  Formats and protocols must be able to accommodate change.
  • Decentralization:  Formats and protocols must limit dependencies on centralized registries.