Sheldon Brown, author of Scalable City, is the Director of the new Center for Next-Generation Digital Media which will focus on developing a different kind of virtual world which proposes to be visually richer and more flexible than existing virtual worlds.  The center is in a partnership with IBM and will use their new platform based on ‘System Z’ mainframes.
I actually just saw Scalable City (in stereo!) at the Stereo Displays and Applications conference in San Jose.  It was definitely one of the better clips shown during the 2 hour …