Re: [vos-d] Integration of VOS and IRC

2007-04-18 Thread Marcos Marado
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:26, Karsten Otto wrote: Am 17.04.2007 um 19:54 schrieb Peter Amstutz: [...] Also something I've wanted to explore is the possibility of creating a semantic representation of a space that is meaningful enough to be navigated from both a MUD-style text

Re: [vos-d] Integration of VOS and IRC

2007-04-18 Thread Marcos Marado
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:22, Peter Amstutz wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:26:34AM +0200, Karsten Otto wrote: Most 3D games already have a network of waypoints in their world maps, so computer controlled characters can easily navigate them. You could use this for text-user

Re: [vos-d] Integration of VOS and IRC

2007-04-18 Thread Reed Hedges
This would be great for people who primarily want to just chat or be present in the world while doing other work, so they don't want the full 3D world. It would also make it possible for blind people to interact in the 3D world. Reed On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:54:23PM -0400, Peter Amstutz

Re: [vos-d] Integration of VOS and IRC

2007-04-18 Thread Reed Hedges
scenery part). Unfortunately, viewpoints usually have no navigation links between them. So for what you want to do, you need a combination of both. This requires some work, but VOS is flexible enough to support all this. Yeah, you would just have the waypoint object type have child

Re: [vos-d] Integration of VOS and IRC

2007-04-18 Thread Marcos Marado
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:43, Reed Hedges wrote: This would be great for people who primarily want to just chat or be present in the world while doing other work, so they don't want the full 3D world. It would also make it possible for blind people to interact in the 3D world. Three

Re: [vos-d] Integration of VOS and IRC

2007-04-18 Thread Ken Taylor
Yes! Accessibility in 3d virtual worlds would be *huge*. As far as I know, no one has done anything like this yet... (and if they have, I would really like to check it out). -Ken This would be great for people who primarily want to just chat or be present in the world while doing other

[vos-d] Integration of VOS and IRC

2007-04-17 Thread Marcos Marado
Hi there, I said this on your IRC channel... - * Now talking on #vos * Topic for #vos is: Virtual Object System :: http:://interreality.org :: Free Multi-user Virtual Reality * Topic for #vos set by tetron|mac at Tue Dec 12 04:28:20 2006 * #vos :[freenode-info] why register and identify?

Re: [vos-d] Integration of VOS and IRC

2007-04-17 Thread Peter Amstutz
Yes, the IRC plugin is included as part of the distribution by default. It creates a VOS user for each IRC user in the virtual world, and creates a separate IRC client session for each user in the VOS world, so it is completely transparent. Currently IRC users in VOS arn't given any form, but