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 great motivations I see for this are: * the possibility of giving a virtual world for blind people - I know many blind people using talkers (no monster killing variants of MUDs) with the help of software like Jaws because for them it is the easiest way of communication. The problem here is that most people nowadays want more attractive clients; * Ubiquity part I: connect everywhere - How many work collegues you know that have their second life client open while working? And how many of them have their IM client? I'm allways-present in one virtual world... text-based. I wouldn't be online there in work-time if it was a 3D environment; * Ubiquity part II: connect everything - On the subway, on the bus, on weekends and vacations, where I don't have a persistent internet connection, I'm used to connect myself via GPRS, either with a computer or a mobile device (cellphone in my particular case). I wouldn't connect to a 3D world via cellphone (hw limitations) or even over a GPRS connection (too slow). But with my SSH client I connect to text-based virtual worlds. See, text worlds have advantages and disavantages over 3D worlds. What we don't have yet (at least that I know of) is a VW where you can connect both via a text-based interface and via a 3D application. -- Marcos Marado Sonaecom IT _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list vos-d@interreality.org http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
