[sldev] Does SL connect into Internet2 ?

SignpostMarv Martin me at signpostmarv.name
Sat Feb 14 07:50:23 PST 2009



Dale Mahalko wrote:
> Hmm, I hadn't thought about OpenSim at all. That could be an 
> interesting use for the research network, and would also solve the 
> whole adult/teen grid access problems for educators trying to do 
> things with Second Life.
>  
> Internet2 would also allow an OpenSim grid to do 
> high-bandwidth experiments that would be considered "just right out" 
> for SL on the regular Internet, such as multiple video streams per 
> parcel, and seeing video across multiple parcels at the same time.
>  
> I wonder how it would work to create avatars where the head is a flat 
> blank oval and instead shows a 256 kbit video stream of the person's 
> real face streamed live on the avatar... and you have say 40 of these 
> people wandering around with a live face-stream all at the same time 
> in a sim (256kb x 40 = 10 megabits).
A generic sculptie, or mapping the stream onto a rebaked avatar texture 
would be more immersive than a flat blank oval.


~ Marv.

> Build a wireless head-mount camera-hat that moves with your skull, to 
> keep your face centered on the avatar's head when you look around your 
> office..
>  
>  
> It does sound interesting. I'll ask the boss. :-)
>  
> - Scalar Tardis / Dale Mahalko
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:40 PM, John Hurliman 
> <jhurliman at jhurliman.org <mailto:jhurliman at jhurliman.org>> wrote:
>
>     What about running an OpenSim grid inside the Internet2 network?
>
>     John
>
>     On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Dale Mahalko <dmahalko at gmail.com
>     <mailto:dmahalko at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         It appears that PK-12 public schools in Wisconsin could
>         connect into the hyperspeed Internet2 project fairly
>         inexpensively.
>          
>         The big problem for me is figuring out how this might be
>         useful for a public school since it is primarily a research
>         network. What exactly are we going to use it for?
>          
>          
>         It would be nice if someday SL could be used in a school
>         computer lab setting, but I've often said on here how this is
>         impossible due to the lack of proxy cache support (e.g. squid)
>         and that due to E-Rate funding we are limited to only 3
>         megabit of general Internet bandwidth for the entire school.
>          
>         Internet2 would be a way around this. So if SL is
>         demanding 500 kilobit per lab PC for good performance, that is
>         fine -- if SL can come in over I2.
>          
>         Heck, with I2 as a way to get onto SL, we could have 50
>         megabit per PC out to SL, in a lab of 30 machines and still
>         have no upper bandwidth limit problems.
>          
>          
>         Though I may need to install a new 10 gigabit school network
>         backbone to handle all this, in addition to the normal file
>         server traffic... ;-)
>          
>         - Scalar Tardis / Dale Mahalko
>          
>          
>
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