Re: [vwrap] Technical basis for VW client in a web browser?

[Meadhbh Hamrick <[e-mail]>]

just to add to your statements:

> Audio: HTML5 audio for presentation is progressing well, but streaming voice
> capture has not yet been tackled and I haven't seen streaming-down of
> realtime sessions yet. Vivox has a plugin available today, however, that can
> be driven by..

the DEVICE tag is getting a little bit of momentum, driven by people
in the VoIP / video conferencing space. i made a very ugly patch for
firefox to demonstrate how the DEVICE tag could capture microphone
input. i have a standing date with the mozilla people for when i turn
it into a plugin. so who knows, maybe in a couple years, there will be
a real live standard for getting A/V device input into a browser's
execution environment.

> Logic: JavaScript appears adequate for most application logic, but the
> amount of data that needs to be processed per frame in a complex world like
> SL is significant - far more than most games. Most WebGL demos so far have
> extremely simple requirements.

though i'm a bit of a JavaScript fan, i think it's an open question
whether JS could handle the types of data rates SL sends at a viewer.
this being said, a "light" experience with less detail, fewer
textures, etc. is probably do-able.

-cheers
-meadhbh