Re: [vwrap] WebSocket / WebGL-based virtual world

[Lawson English <[e-mail]>]

> it's cool, for sure, but they're using a proprietary protocol based on
> google protocol buffers for their back end stuff. i chatted with
> henrik last year and he seemed completely un-interested in
> participating in a standardization effort.
>
Yesterday, I sat in on a meeting with the imersive Education folk 
concerning their Open File Format, and Sikarata was being touted as a 
potential participant in that part of stndardization.

iED's big thing about optimization is currently the ability to serve  
files from Wonderland servers to realXtend worlds, and presumeably in 
the other direction. This is demoed starting around 7 minutes into this 
video: http://www.youtube.com/ImmersiveED#p/u/0/cMhBiu0YJ3s

The announcement of the file format is here:

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=l9v8jddab&v=0012Q4V8GYbFiRVW5S52Wafi9DbYKi8ApYvpFG686SUd4B5TAMcsgez8TsHQyBGOBUtllVn7F83vdrtw7wzMw5mWi3zeu29ak8hSDeywTXeE6QKBh0Ty-BQ6g%3D%3D


> at the risk of touching off another flame war (morgaine likes to
> violently argue what my motivations were last year) i should just
> mention that some of us wanted to develop a protocol to allow
> different VW related services to be hosted in different domains.
>
That's obviously already happening with the iED endorsed worlds, at 
least on the level of demos.


> i would be VERY interested in sirikata if they were to start focusing on that.
>
  In order to get acknowledge by iED, they had to pledge to work on 
that. That was part of what yesterday's (2 Dec 2010) meeting was about.

I raised the "holy grail" of TP between worlds while maintaining 
identity and hopefully appearance for the avatar, and everyone agreed 
that was the long-term goal.

I can only suggest VWRAP folks get in touch with Aaron Walsh of 
immersive Education and try to coordinate things better.

http://gridinstitute.com/people/aew/

The virtual worlds involved in the iED currently or prospectively are 
OpenWonderland & realXtend/OpenSim and sirikata and OpenCobalt.


Lawson