To start with, I'll apologize if this is in the wrong place. I tried posting before and it didn't get though for some reason. (I hope this isn't being considered spam :( )
Having recently played about with wave, I wanted to ask a lot of questions and post a lot of feedback...but I didn't know where exactly to do that! So for my questions I'll post here, if there's a better place to do this, please let me know :) (still don't know the best place to put feedback on the current client though) -- My questions mostly concern the possibility's of wave-protocol being used for non-text based communication. Specifically being adapted for Augmented Reality use. I wrote a rough paper (http:// www.ugotrade.com/ 2009/08/19/everything-everywhere-thomas-wrobels-proposal-for-an-open- augmented-reality-network/ or http://www.darkflame.co.uk/sharespace/AR_paper.pdf) on the idea of using existing protocols to establish a shared and open 3d view of the world. That focused on IRC as a way to exchange data on multiple publicly- submittable channels. But at the end I queried that GoogleWave might be more appropriate. (Specifically because wave can support a hybrid of chat-like data, and more perminate wiki-style information). So Id like to ask some questions that would help me get clear in my head the possibility's of wave protocol being used for this purpose. Anyway, enough with that preamble and on with a few questions; 1) What is the estimated data rate between clients looking at a wave? For example, if one person edits a character or two in a string, how quickly do the others see it? It seems fairly fast, but is there any rough figures for this? (Imagine if the text is specifying co-ordinates to place a 3D mesh, the speed of update of the co-ordinates would determine how smoothly the mesh could move, and thus the sorts of applications a AR-browser based on WaveProtocal could be used for). 2) Will wave, at some point, allow the uploading of various file types? I notice the ability to search by MIME type, so I assume things other then Image is planned at some point. The ability to host even modest sized 3d mesh files would open up a lot of possibility's. (obviously this could be expanded for paid-for services as well, where people get more hosting space on their google accounts....or whoever else is hosting the wave sever being used). 2b) Is it conceivable at some point for people to self-host data? Like a user keeping a large file in a google-gears database, and is only accessible to other people ver their wave while their online? (most useful for larger files, or perhaps something only applicable to the person themselves, like a 3d mesh used for an avatar). Effectively this possibility makes google wave also possible to do the sorts of sever-like things Opera's Unite is doing. 3) Permissions are clearly still being worked on; Do we know yet if these will work on a wave level/user level, or is it planned to be more granular...allowing individual reply strings to be set as read only by their creator? (or preferably even allowing only specific people to edit specific things). Clearly this could get fractularly more complex to implement in a GUI in an intuitive way, but it would be nice if the protocal itself supported a wide range of permission/ edit possibilities. -- Thanks for any answers to these questions, or redirecting me to other places to ask them. I'm very impressed with what Ive seen of wave so far, and cant wait to see what the future brings. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
