[sldev] Croquet videos

[dirk husemann]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 01-Nov-2007, at 16:19, Anthony Bundy wrote:
>> You can drag and drop textures and videos into SL? When did that
>> become available?
>
> You can upload textures into SL. You could make it more convenient,
> yes, but you could duplicate that demo in SL. The moderate convenience
> of being able to drag a prepared image off your hard drive instead of
> uploading it and then dragging it onto a prim is more than
> counterbalanced by the overall clumsiness of croquet.
...and if you could enable drag & drop for the SL client: rez your prim,
drag an image you have on your disk onto it, you get a pop-up asking you
to agree to the upload fee (optionally make it auto-agree via
preferences) and off you go.
>
> Video, OK, you CAN do streaming video in SL but it's really
> inconvenient, and you can upload little animated clips like that as
> animated textures, but it's still less convenient. But all in all I'd
> still say Croquet is trailing SL.
where i find SL lacking is that croquet *seems* to allow me to map
applications rather easily into SL: it would be great to have an SSH
session window mapped into a team space in SL, along with the firefox
window displaying the web site the team is working on (just as an
example) --- and have that team space persist.

    cheers,
    dirk

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