I have thought for a while that having a massive multiplayer online robot simulator would be a good thing for AGI/robotics... one could build a virtual world online with realistic physics, and have people play games in this world where the AI characters were controlled by robot control software...
Right now one can use the same AI to control game characters and robots, but game engines are not robot simulators so there are many detailed differences when you get down to the level of action and perception... Now I have found there is an OSS infrastructure that could be used to build a massive multiplayer online robot simulator, namely Blender, which began as a graphic design program similar to Maya / 3dsMax, http://www.blender.org/ but now features Blender Game Engine http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Game_Engine which can be used for building MMOGs using this code as template http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?109123-BZoo-Network-Gaming-with-Blender and also is integrated with the MORSE robot simulator http://www.openrobots.org/wiki/morse/ So all the pieces are there for making a massive multiplayer online robot simulator... Cool... ;) -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
