Hi group, had a bit of a play with Open Wonderland yesterday - just to see what it was like over on that side. Quite nice environment, good security model and nice clean web- interface to the server.
But WOW, what a HOG! Being the 'Digital Media Centre', our PCs are quite beefy, but my testbed was positively choking on the demo world (I was using the second-simplest demo world - one step up from 'new empty world' - essentially a flat groundplane, a sky box and an un-animated low-poly avatar). I guess that's what happens when you let programmers develop stuff on very-high-end workstations.... In Java! ;-) (it started life as a Sun Microsystems product before Oracle released it to the wilds). Had to test it on the Win/Lin systems at work as my Linux box at home only has 2GiB ram (mainly because you can't buy 0.5GiB modules in DDR3 :-P .... running Feature-BloatDE and GIMP and Firefox (the parent project isn't called 'Mozilla' because it is petite) and Blender (which drags in its whole own UI system again) rarely breaks me over the 1GiB line - and then only if I have them all going at once including reading TV-Tropes in firefox (think a bazillion tabs open) so having my VM disk suddenly go all thrashy over a VR server + client running a very minimal world, was actually a bit of a shock (O_o). It was a nightly build, so may have been loaded full of debug markers and stuff, but even accounting for that, it seemed a VERY heavy (and consequently slugish to the point of being annoying to use) system compared to what I am used to with both the OpenSim and Tundra environments. In the end, while security and administrative concepts present in the system were certainly very well thought out, the implimentation was just unusable. :-( Still, I'd recomend having a look at it if you have a spare hour-or- two to get JavaDE-6 installed and behaving itself - getting Wonderland to run was a snap, it was getting the JDE in first that was wrecking my day! (It needs the JDE, the JSE won't work it). -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
