Re: [mmox] charter scope, thinking horizontally

[Jon Watte <[e-mail]>]

What, if anything, needs to be done if we were to look at XMPP and SIP 
for VW communication interop?

If someone wants to try a SIP session between OLIVE and some other 
virtual world, could you contact me off-list, and perhaps we can just 
try it out and see if it's good enough or not?

Sincerely,

jw


Charles Krinke wrote:
> Matters not. Some folks prefer typing, some prefer voice. Either or 
> both options are reasonable and supported by many virtual worlds, 
> including the ones currently supporting interop.
>
> The key is to move forward in a logical, step by step manner in 
> implementing more interop.

>     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).
>