[sldev] Fwd: ISO MPEG-V

Timeless Prototype timelessprototype at gmail.com
Tue May 27 11:27:10 PDT 2008


Maybe I'm just cynical today, but is this whole MPEG-V thing just a way
to make money from royalties/licensing by documenting protocols that
ultimately someone else developed and implemented beforehand?

- Timeless


James Neal wrote:
> This is silly. You cant standardize community and commerce.
> Community is free-form and will do whatever the hell it wants.  You
> likely wont get much support for your standard from banking and such so
> commerce is out unless you're talking about another virtual world
> currency. Too risky. As for creation..  I don't know what that even
> means.   Too vague. Everything about MPEG-V seems too vague to really
> say much more than this.
> 
> Where's the beef?
> 
> Baba
> 
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 02:41, 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.
>>
>> --Yesha
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr. Yesha Y. Sivan, http://www.dryesha.com; Connecting Real and
>> Virtual Worlds.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr. Yesha Y. Sivan, http://www.dryesha.com; Connecting Real and
>> Virtual Worlds.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr. Yesha Y. Sivan, http://www.dryesha.com; Connecting Real and
>> Virtual Worlds.
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