On 12/03/12 14:12, Owen Kelly wrote:
Hello,
I am afraid I did not explain as much as I should have done (or as clearly).
Please let me make one more attempt, and then we can let it lie :)
1. The children in the project are ten years old. The version of Imprudence we
are using has all the menus (and currently the maps) stripped out.
2. The children are using Open Sim on a USB stick precisely so that they can
use it from anywhere: from school (maybe), from home (definitely), and possibly
from other places including friends and relatives.
3. Each world-on-a-stick is one-user only. They cannot ever directly visit any
other child's world-on-a-stick.
The system we envisage is strictly radial. At the centre is one social world,
running on the university server at Arcada. Each spoke is a single
world-on-a-stick that should ideally operate in two modes: a) as a strictly
one-user personal pocket world, and b) as a means of connecting to the social
world.
The social world is a club-house, populated only by the class of children and
their two teachers. Ideally children would be able to bring things from their
pocket world into the social world and take things back to their social world.
Thus children can make things and then share them. They can take snapshots of
their own world and share them. But the cannot take anyone else back to their
personal world.
The reasons why we want to make it like this are quite complicated, and
off-topic for this list, but I can post a link to a short paper if anyone is
interested. (Short version: Pokemon is a single player experience. Pokemon
Arena allowed you to move your Pokemon into a shared world and compete against
your friends. Private learning linked to social games.)
I will try some experiments with Justin's ideas about landmarks. These raise
the question of whether I actually need hypergridding at all. What I think I
actually need is to be able to teleport between the two worlds. Can this be
done without making the social world fully accessible?
Is there a better approach to achieve what we want?
You are trying to do something that I would say is currently very complex. There are also security issues (opening up
ports to enable hypergrid from outside your network) which running in a private vpn may alleviate (a big topic in
itself). Children make such issues more critical.
Using hypergrid will also require good upload bandwidth from the children's home computers. I would say better than
your typical ADSL line but I'd be very happy to be contradicted on this.
--
Justin Clark-Casey (justincc)
http://justincc.org/blog
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