OpenCroquet (was: Re: [sldev] [POLICY] OpenSL considered harmful?)

[Boroondas Gupte]

Joshy Squashy schrieb:
> Thank you for your responses, Kelly Linden.  Always nice to hear right
> from the source. :)
>
> Q: "What you mean by 'when the SL server should also be some other
> type of server' etc"
> A:  Arbitrary server -- web, file, or other type of server.  But a
> better answer might be to give a (albeit somewhat contrived) specific
> workflow I envision.  I guess imagine a virtual file server.  Using
> the open-source viewer and open-source viewer code, you could create a
> prims to represent viewer-uploaded files like personal videos,
> documents, and such.  For example, I could create a prim shaped like a
> video cassette, texture with a label like a wedding dress, and upload
> a file "My Wedding Video.mov".  When someone else sees the virtual
> video cassette, they could click it, and the custom server code would
> know to check the location where it stored the uploaded video and send
> it to the user.
>
> Or one could envision a virtual library where users create "book"
> prims, texture the prims like their corresponding books, upload the
> e-book to their custom OpenSim server via an interface in their custom
> Second Life viewer, and then we would host a virtual library of
> e-books.  User's could login to the virtual library server and click
> the book they want to read, and the server would send the e-book, and
> perhaps then the custom client would have a built-in reader for
> opening the e-book.
Hi Joshy

I might be wrong, but from what I read about OpenCroquet, it seems quite
possible you can implement scenarios like these two within their
concept, probably even without having to modify the software. See
http://www.opencroquet.org/

Be aware, however, that Croquet is some quite different animal than are
Second Life and OpenSim, so many SL-ish features like e.g. an inworld
economy or a permission management system are missing.

cheers
Boroondas