Interoperability; was: [sldev] Call for requirements: ISO MPEG-V ...

[Felix Duesenburg]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 2008-06-03, at 03:34, Felix Duesenburg wrote:
>> The main question to answer for any such thing to happen is, where's 
>> the business angle to justify such an effort? Creating interfaces and 
>> mappings between spaces that were never made with interoperability in 
>> mind is not a trivial task. Ultimately the customer, the user will 
>> have to pay for it to be enabled. Is there anything you want to do so 
>> badly that you'd part with your hard earned L$, PED, gold nuggets or 
>> real world currency?
> 
> I've spent hundreds of dollars on my avatar over the past three years: 
> that and land rent for the Coonspiracy is where pretty much everything I 
> earn in SL goes to. Why wouldn't I spend real money to carry that around 
> with me?
> 
>> And, even before that, what's the business advantage for the 
>> respective companies running those worlds?
> 
> Getting people who would have absolutely no interest in visiting WoW as 
> an elf or a thinly disguised hobbit to play the game? People willing to 
> pay a premium to have a custom avatar, but not willing to pay a penny to 
> be a dark elf no matter how fantastic a costume Sony or Blizzard or 
> whoever come up for it?
> 

Great :) Needed to elicit that mention... I keep forgetting that others 
like to think differently. I'm not so focused on designing my 
appearance, more on the aspect of all these worlds/games being used as 
communication tools.

Now, who is going to be able to convince Blizzard and the rest that they 
want that, too? My guess is that this will be a task of the magnitude of 
creating a standard for videotape or disk formats... bringing mighty 
competitors to work together and compromise. Talk about herding cats, 
big fat ones.