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 develop new software to be part of SL. The networking protocol is proprietary is SL so there is no way to create a compatible client or other tools. 2. Related to (1), the only organization who can operate any SL servers is Linden. Nobody can create their own server. 3. SL is highly restrictive when it comes to what can be built in the world, being heavily structured towards a simulation of real-world real estate markets. Also, VOS is much more than just a client-server 3D game. It can be used for all kinds of different applications, and these different uses can "overlap" or be integrated together. VOS can be used for both client-server systems, multi-server systems, and also true peer to peer systems (though realities of network setup make that hard these days). Reed On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:51:32AM -0500, Sergey Izvoztchikov wrote: > 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 already implemented > the Metaverse or something pretty close to it, no ? > > > > _______________________________________________ > vos-d mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list [email protected] http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
