[sldev] Croquet videos

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 08-Nov-2007, at 03:02, dirk husemann wrote:
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> 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.

Or, for a local server, not have a fee. That's where I see SL taking  
on the attributes of Croquet, for private servers where upload and  
bandwidth issues are irrelevant. A local server could even accept  
movies as texture assets.

> 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.

I'd like to have that just for my own applications, without them  
being shared... using something like a media texture, but one local  
to the client rather than the parcel. Again, for shared applications,  
you'd really want to have private servers local to the users who are  
sharing them.