Re: [vos-d] Second Life ?

2006-03-30 Thread swe
Hi Hugh, looked at your metaverse link. What is the relation metaverse to VOS, is it the same codebase? Has VOS more features? thanx hermetic On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Hugh Perkins wrote: Yeah, what Reed said. SecondLife is very cool but it is closed-source, at least for now. Being cl

Re: [vos-d] Second Life ?

2006-03-30 Thread Hugh Perkins
Yeah, what Reed said.   SecondLife is very cool but it is closed-source, at least for now.  Being closed-source isnt necessarily an issue on its own, except there are certain functionalities that are not possible at this time, and that some people consider critical.   Hugh Perkins http://metaverse

Re: [vos-d] Second Life ?

2006-03-30 Thread Reed Hedges
Hi Sergey, Second Life is certainly ahead of us in features and does many things we want to be able to do eventually using VOS as well. But underneath the surface, they are very different: 1. For software developers, every level of VOS code is open source and patent free. There is no way to d

[vos-d] Second Life ?

2006-03-30 Thread Sergey Izvoztchikov
Isn't Second Life and everything around it an implementation of what described in Stephenson's Snow Crash ? Don't you guys think that VOS is kind of late ? Just wonder what you think. I head about Second Life on the radio, so my knowledge is limited. But from what I heard it looks like Linden Lab

Re: [vos-d] omnivos and Mac trouble

2006-03-30 Thread Reed Hedges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The whole talk listeners/relay system is a bit confusing and may have bugs still. Once we know that it works well all the time with a simple straightforwared API it might be worthwhile to abstract it for other messages than just talk messages, to avo

Re: [vos-d] omnivos and Mac trouble

2006-03-30 Thread Karsten Otto
Am 29.03.2006 um 22:09 schrieb Peter Amstutz: By the way, there is someone else who is working on getting things to work on OS X (adu on #vos, I don't know/can't remember his email address so would the real adu please stand up). I talked to adu on irc recently. Nice to have you on board of