Something possibly more interesting to look at is the client announced in Perugia this week at the Web2007 conference. Johannes Behr and Yvonne Jung from Fraunhoeffer demoed a mixed reality client for which they are seeking beta testers. The announcement is up at the www.web3d.org page. The list of node (a mix of X3D and Avalon) is impressive. Apparently they implemented physics with ODE.
len From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Amstutz Linden Labs has made another statement that they will soon opening up the server. Not a suprise, but has touched off another wave of speculation about where they're going with it: http://www.3pointd.com/20070328/platforms-and-technologies-panel-at-vw07/ People have pointed out that a number of technologies SL depends on are themselves proprietary (such as the Havoc physics engine) so whatever they release is probably not going to be 100% free software. I think that the strength of VOS going forward (particularly embodied in the new design) will be the ability for the object model to interoperate with other systems on their own terms, so we can still play to the strengths of VOS on either the frontend or backend (depending on the application). The big players in virtual worlds are starting to emerge, but it is still early in the race, and we're in it for the long haul... _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list [email protected] http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
