[sldev] Fwd: ISO MPEG-V

[Lawson English]

Yesha Sivan wrote:
> Live interesting conversation...  here are my 2 cents:
>
> We are not working on pure MPEG style MPEG-V (not "5", but V for 
> virtual);
> we are working on the FULL framework to enable real virtual worlds 
> including all the good things like community, creation and commerce.
>
> Yes it will be nice to have SL and WOW and even IMVU using the same 
> standards.
>
> BUT as one of the member mention ("doing HTML from Plato") -- do we 
> have all the technology that we need? We are not sure... and that is 
> why we want all the input.
>
> My personal take: a medium standard is better then no standard.
>

Well, the thing that simply cannot be done, as far as I know, is send 
messages back to a server as is done with SL, EQ, WoW, etc.

Nor can a node send messages to another node, as can be done with Croquet. 

Without the ability to send arbitrary data upstream, no standard will 
work, IMHO.


Lawson