Do you mean something like an interface that allows us to do this: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-375
Yes!! That's part of it, anyway. The main point i was trying to make is that i see there as being (at least) two very different types of user communities for SL. One community is like the RP (Role Play) one that wants - needs - as much immersion as possible! i think that all the things that wouldn't be seen if it was real eyes looking at a real world gotta be able to be made as inconspicuous as possible - without losing utility. Floaters and partially transparent windows and all the stuff that goes into the "Terminator style" heads up display are crucial! Another community is like the Professional Services one that only needs SL for a tool to get some task done. "Immersion" is a distraction. i think they just need a virtual conference setting, or school or whatever that can leverage the VW (Virtual World) concept to communicate more effectively. Or maybe just because it's more fun that way! Whatever, having the VW be just another desk top operation is to me more functional than immersing in the VW. The paradigm should even work better for content creators at times, too, since non-SL tools like Blender, Photoshop, etc., can be run on the same screen with SL easier. Right? A third community might be noobs, who could often benefit quite a bit from something that was really close to immersion without losing their familiar desktop feel, and who might be best served with a lot of simplicity and advice until they figure things out. i think the "normal" camera perspective compared to mouseview is one illustration on one level of the principle. Backing further away to the viewer 2.0 way is another step, then something like the system at the URL you gave is another step even further back. Kinda like a VW zoom function that works on "reality level." My thought is that it would be *really great* if at least a couple of the possible VW levels - or SL modes - were as easy to switch between as mouselook and normal camera view. i mean, you could get all sophisticated about it and have this or that feature of the "zoom" be selectable by itself, like something easy to turn screen squishing and partial transparency on and off for the sidebar in viewer 2.0 without a relog. But i think the main thing ought to be just a recognition of the (at least) two different user communities and the need to support both directions without ripping the communities apart, or making one suffer for the other. Thx for the URL ref! a...@skyhighway.com wrote: > For the Big Picture SL presentation i can see something like all the SL > windows, including all the chat, inventory, group, etc - everything (even > HUDs?), being just windows for the OS with the VW its own window that > maybe is maximized and maybe isn't. In maximized mode the VW window could > have the ability to "draw in" or spawn inside without "leaving" the VW any > or all of the windows for chat, inventory, etc in their floaty, sometimes > transparent mode like the Terminator's heads up display that so many like > so well! Y'know, the best of all worlds? > Do you mean something like an interface that allows us to do this: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-375 _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
