[Opensim-dev] Question: Collaborative tools in Opensim

[Impalah]

I suspected that "collaboration" will require client modifications too.

The VNC blackboard is a good idea, but seems a patch waiting for a better
client API (capturing events on the surface of a prim and the whole). What I
am looking for is a full application integration (i.e. executing openoffice
and documents being modified for the opensim avatars) but I understand that
everything needs time (and knowledge I haven't actually).

Thank you for the guidelines, guys.


2009/7/3 MW <michaelwri22 at yahoo.co.uk>

> About the only way to do a (near) realtime whiteboard that works with the
> standard secondlife client, is to do it like the prototype I did.
>
> Which basically embedded a Video streaming server into a opensim module. So
> you set the parcel media url to point to that video streamer. Then the
> module could handle the click/movement comands from the client (hooking into
> the opensim IClientApi events) and then in "near realtime" draw on the
> surface that the video streamer was sending to the clients. It also included
> a VNC bridge, so the module would act as a VNC client, and converted the VNC
> desktop into a video stream.
>
> As Stefan said, I wrote a prototype doing this, but it was just that... a
> prototype and lots of things would need doing on it before it was really
> usable. I've often meant to post the code to the forge but the biggest
> problem is that the code is mixed in with a lot of other custom code, so
> extracting it is going to take quite a bit of work. Which is time that at
> the moment I just don't have.
>
> --- On *Fri, 3/7/09, Stefan Andersson <stefan at tribalmedia.se>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Stefan Andersson <stefan at tribalmedia.se>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Question: Collaborative tools in Opensim
> To: "opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de" <opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de>
> Date: Friday, 3 July, 2009, 12:53 PM
>
>
> I know Darren implemented a pretty nifty real-time standard-issue SL viewer
> OpenSim whiteboard for drawing and placing images on, point and click - and
> the Rex people have been supporting VNC-on-a-prim for quite some time.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Andersson
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:53:37 +0200
> From: impalah at gmail.com
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: [Opensim-dev] Question: Collaborative tools in Opensim
>
> Hi:
>
> Yesterday, talking with a client who wanted something similar to a
> blackboard into Second Life, I was trying to remember if there is something
> similar for Opensim.
>
> Not the clasical "prim-on-rez" blackboard (sometimes called "sim overloader
> blackboard) or the web-over-prim refresher and all that "almost but not"
> stuff.
>
> Something like the Project Wonderland X11 integration or VNC full
> integration, or event the OpenCroquet 3D painter. Some thing that "really"
> allows to save the collaborative work and access to external applications.
>
> So, that's my question: does this stuff exists for Opensim or there are
> plans to develop something similar?
>
> Thanks
>
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