[sldev] Metaverse platform gambling 1

[Giulio Prisco]

Hi Dale,

yes I mean "groupware tools, web browsing, webcam feeds and
collaborative editing of documents in popular office formats".
(spatial VoIP is already in SL thanks God). Plus other features like
full Flash support and integration with the main social nets.

I, or you, cannot offer to implement these things ourselves because
server-side SL is a closed proprietary system. Some of these features
could conceivably be integrated client-side, but a real implementation
would require grid support.

Also, I would hardly spend time to develop software when _only_ others
would benefit financially. I would be interested in contributing real
effort to SL development if I could install my own SL server and sell
premium services based on it, but the option is not available. So I
can only say that some features would be cool, and encourage LL to
develop them.

I look fwd to contributing to OpenSim, and to SL when (if)  the server
side will be opensourced.

G.

On Feb 3, 2008 5:10 PM, Dale Glass <dale at daleglass.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 03 February 2008 16:25:31 Giulio Prisco wrote:
> > Why? Other metaverse platforms, and in particular those I mention,
> > have features that really should be in Second Life.
> What features?
>
> > If, that is, LL
> > want SL to be taken seriously as a business soriented metaverse
> > platform. And of course, I look fwd to seeing such features integrated
> > in SL - but of course that is LL's decision to make.
> What features?
>
> You mean "groupware tools, web browsing, spatial VoIP, webcam feeds and
> collaborative editing of documents in popular office formats"?
>
> >
> > I can tell you that, in Europe, after a brief good press wave before
> > last summer, SL is not taken seriously anymore as a business tool and
> > most firms are more interested in other platforms. Dismissing these
> > concerns as "not relevant" is like that ostrich with its head stuck in
> > the sand in order not to see the dangerous outside world.
> What concerns?
>
> The problem is that this is the SL *development* mailing list, and you're
> not directly bringing up any technical subjects.
>
> If you think SL really needs a webcam feed then say so directly, and either
> offer to implement that yourself, or at least explain why is it needed,
> and what do you think it should look like.
>
> IMO it's not very useful to say "SL needs a webcam feed" and leave it at
> that. As a developer, my interest is in how is that going to work, how
> will the data be transmitted, what codec and protocols are going to be
> used, what will be the security implications, whether it will require grid
> support, etc.
>



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