[Opensim-dev] Lively

[Kenny Ming]

Talking about "grid jump"

      "In fact, Linden Lab will start an Open Grid Public Beta 
<http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Grid_Public_Beta> in July, making 
the Second Life Preview Grid available with Open Grid Protocol support 
for login and teleport. This first phase of the Open Grid Public Beta is 
designed for developers who want to test OpenSim interoperability with 
Second Life. IBM will contribute back to the community the enhancements 
it made to the OpenSim source code to support the Open Grid Protocol. In 
addition, an Open Grid version of the Second Life Viewer will be 
available for beta participants by Linden Lab. For information on 
interoperability testing, visit: 
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Grid_Public_Beta."
          -- from LL blog
    
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/08/ibm-linden-lab-interoperability-announcement/

Comments?

Kenny / Akio

P.S.: Gratz everyone.

Sean Dague wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 07:44:31AM -0400, Teravus Ovares wrote:
>   
>> Eh,
>>
>> I think it's the one thing that they have going for them to attract an
>> audience.   Alas, dropping the browser is like dropping IPv4 to use IPv6
>> only.
>>     
>
> I lot of people have said to me that basically a 38 MB download and a
> seperate icon is all that is keeping people from coming in world in
> droves.  I remain unconvinced by that position.  They seem to have
> forgotten the technology curve that got us here, and how this all played
> out when the browser showed up as well. :)
>
> I think people also forget how fickle the web 2.0 property space is.
> Every single new browser based 3D thing (there are plenty) merges the
> platform with the application (which the web does not do).  Frienster 
> -> Orkut -> MySpace -> Facebook -> ?.  If you application and platform
> are the same thing, your platform crash and burns with your application
> going out of vogue.
>
> It's one of the many reasons I'm all for the OpenSim approach.  It's a
> platform.  With just content work you get a social space, with more
> work, you can have many more interesting 3D apps.  It's also one of the
> reasons I think "grid jump" is an important feature for us in 0.7.  The
> applications will come and go from vogue, but if there is a reasonable
> way to just pop between them, the user experience won't be limitted to
> one application, but will be interested in getting around between all of
> them.... like a browser.  Hey look at that. :)
>
>     -Sean
>
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