[Opensim-dev] anon logins

[Paul Fishwick]

People do a lot of web-browsing and perhaps anon accounts will help better
integrate opensim with the web. Consider the following:

 1. Someone is browsing the web for a topic such as "red wine"
 2. They get to various wine distributor and vineyard web pages
 3. They find out that one of the vineyards has a "hot link" to a 3D space
 4. They click on it and find themselves in the opensim world for the 
vineyard

We need to find ways of making it easier, and more transparent, to go 
between
#2 and #4. It may be that a stepping-stone is required such as Xenki, 
which is
browser embedded (before launching a full-blown viewer).

Anon accounts may help because it is similar to unrestricted web browsing.
And, these accounts may ease the transition between #2 and #4, and thus
grow the metaverse.

-p

Charles Krinke wrote:
> Great. These are interesting ideas. Having a dynamic last name 
> assigned like "Guest001" through "Guest999" (or Anon, or Anonymous) 
> might be a way forward for chat and IM. Personally, I would prefer a 
> 'shorter' as opposed to 'longish' last name, but thats only my 
> personal typing bias.
>
> I could certainly see OpenViewer, Hippo, IdealistViewer or RexClient 
> moving in this direction if there was sufficient community interest.
>
> The main reason I brought it up was to think forward a little bit 
> towards educational, scientific and general usage in a 3D internet 
> paradigm that might be one of those small steps that would gain 
> OpenSim more acceptance.
>
> I am not thinking of the SecondLife client or maingrid here so much as 
> trying to imagine a few features that would benefit OpenSim six months 
> from now. And a guest or anon login seems like one of those.
>
> This being the eave of our OS2B, it just seemed to me that discussing 
> a few of these sorts of ideas would be at least stimulating for our 
> OpenSim community.
>
> Charles
>
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> *From:* Sean Hennessee <sean at uci.edu>
> *To:* opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> *Sent:* Friday, January 23, 2009 9:50:13 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Opensim-dev] anon logins
>
> Last name "anonymous"; first name would have to be unique. Then you 
> would have a unique first/last name to make the viewer happy. Perhaps 
> a web page could assign you a unique first name before you logged in.
>
> Opensim would then need to treat this user special, (anyone with last 
> name anonymous). I would imagine the Opensim.ini file would specify 
> what capabilities an anonymous user had.
>
> [anonymous]
> move=true
> fly=false
> chat=true
> shout=false
> build=true
> script=false
> etc.
>
> Peace,
> Sean
>
> Nebadon Izumi wrote:
>> Frank give this a try , try logging into osgrid or secondlife 2 times 
>> with the same account and tell me what happens, and how do you think 
>> the SL viewer would respond if 30 peopel logged into Wright Plaza 
>> with the name "Anonymous User" think beyond just the login, think 
>> about functionaly using Chat and access things in world that require 
>> checking the user name and delivering information to them..  
>> Personally i dont see this happening with the Linden Viewer, but lets 
>> keep the topic rolling here, im not trying to shut it down, perhaps 
>> someone can prove me wrong.
>>
>> Nebadon
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