Re: [mmox] charter scope, thinking horizontally

[Jon Watte <[e-mail]>]

Charles Krinke wrote:
> I would concur. Making in-roads in getting chat working between more 
> virtual worlds is to everyone's advantage.

Well, theoretically that is already solved by XMPP, right?

Also, it turns out that OLIVE is very not focused on text chat at all; 
it is almost entirely designed for voice comms. Of course, we already do 
SIP interoperability, so it's unclear whether there's much to do that, 
either.

If a virtual world exposed a XMPP chat service, and SIP endpoints for 
each avatar, using the protocols that already exist, then what else is 
there to do to declare this working? What, specifically, are the 
unsolved problems with regards to using XMPP and SIP in the context of 
virtual worlds?

The only one I can think of is properly tying presence into the SIP 
call, such that the voice comes from the right 3D location (we use an 
out-of-bound message for that right now).

Sincerely,

jw