A message from the Founder of VastPark

Welcome to VastPark!

VastPark’s tools are digital crayons for a new medium. Although VastPark suits creating virtual worlds, you may find it useful for many purposes including: digital puppetry, interactive 3D ‘powerpoint’ presentations, game creation and immersive exploration of architecture.

The question is: What are you going to do with it?

As a kid, my favourite activity was dreaming and my secret ambition was to conjure dreams in other people’s minds. When I hear artists talk about their work affecting people, I know I’m not alone in that secret ambition, so I’m dedicating VastPark to my fellow dreamers.

Already in its primitive form, VastPark is a significant step forward in enabling the dreamer inside you to dream and for others to share and participate in your worlds. Commercial and artistic opportunities abound for those who get in early.

That’s why we encourage you to Grow Your Own.

We’re working hard to ensure that VastPark can be adopted by online communities, corporations, individuals and indie developers alike.

I hope you will download the software, play with it, get involved and come to love this new medium as much as I do."

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

T.E. Lawrence

"Back in 1999, I realized that the Web needed an infusion of game technology to form a new multi-user medium that was part-Web, Game, Social space and ‘Interactive TV’.

At the time I had been working in media for a decade and a life changing event led to me to think about a whole new medium. I envisaged an online medium of communication and collaboration with the flexibility of being able to rearrange your own virtual atomic building blocks and instantly re-link them onto other people’s virtual blocks. This had the potential to build whole new economies around it: new ways of thinking about persistent gaming, even new ways of ‘traveling’ between offices and engaging in online social activities.

It was not until the start of 2003 that I was ready to hire engineers. Since then we’ve continued to focus on the tough questions: how to scale the virtual web up to millions of worlds; how to connect them together; and how to solve the infrastructure issues so that no one person or company ‘owns’ the virtual web. Although our ‘beta’ software implementation requires Microsoft Windows®, our underlying framework is absolutely cross-platform and non-device specific.

With VastPark, organizations can build a virtual hub for their online communities that contains their own and user generated virtual worlds and so much more that can be linked together to form a seamless web of independent worlds.

Whatever your purpose, get started today and soon the world will be immersed in your dream!"

Bruce Joy