h1. The VastPark Mission

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Our mission is to *help people collaborate, capture and apply knowledge in sharable environments.*

We do this by building a high level information layer that can turn space, time and events into collaborative documents. The VastPark platform can theoretically extended to any device including augmented reality applications. All that is needed is a client able to render our main XML specifications ([[IMML]] and [[Metaforik]]) so that users are able to participate in rich multi-user multimedia virtual and augmented reality environments. 

VastPark is a growing, profitable global group of companies. Our offering includes an open source core platform as well as a commercial platform featuring commercial plugins and other extensions. We also provide our Player software under a Firefox-like license so anyone can deploy it anywhere and use commercial and open source extensions.

The VastPark platform is a next generation *distributed* virtual worlds platform to help Enterprise, government and military agencies develop new capabilities that include real time Virtual Worlds and Communities of Practice. 

We provide Enterprise solutions and a commercial SDK which offers outstanding flexibility. Enterprises in industries such as healthcare are realizing there is great value in building their own Communities of Practice where members of the community can collaborate and develop best practice models, share documents, join real time meetings remotely and experience rich multimedia simultaneously as well as use the social network aspects from their web browser anytime to communicate and learn asynchronously.

Commercial and open source developers can use VastPark's specifications, code and the platform contained on this site without royalty fees. Create your own collaborative virtual world sites, visualize data and users in real time and even augmented reality applications. VastPark uses a RESTful service orientated approach that enables you to more easily integrate the web and whatever else you like and offers a powerful model for metadata including new specifications for spatial description ([[IMML]]), meta-objects ([[Metaforik]]), interactive stream capture ([[Continuum]]) and spatial tagging ([[VastMark]]).

*Interested in VastPark's commercial offerings? "Return to VastPark.com":http://www.vastpark.com*