[opensource-dev] SL Browsification

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 On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:59:24 -0600, Argent <secret.argent at gmail.com> 
 wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Daniel Smith <javajoint at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:29 PM, <aklo at skyhighway.com> wrote:
>>> the mail below is a copy of a msg i got from SL this afternoon.  Is 
>>> it
>>> some kinda sign that the viewer is in danger of going extinct?
>
>> No, it would just be yet another way to get to the same experience.
>
> Not even that much. The browser viewer is cloud rendered and so even
> if it wasn't seriously limited (and it is) it would require 
> dedicating
> a fairly high end cloud server instance (with CPU and GPU) to EACH
> logged in user. That might eventually be plausible, but right now 
> it'd
> be like taking on the cost of about 10 additional grids with no
> additional income.

 this is interesting - what exactly is your estimation based upon?

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