[Opensim-dev] Fwd: HyperGrids -- connecting virtual worlds for OpenSim and web arch

[Cristina Videira Lopes]

Wow! Thanks for forwarding this.
I replied to Tim off the list. Will keep everyone posted on what comes 
out, if anything.

Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> FYI -- A message to the W3C Technical Architecture Group, from Tim 
> Berners Lee
>
> If there's any feedback on this I'd be happy to pass it on.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Tim Berners-Lee* <timbl at w3.org <mailto:timbl at w3.org>>
> Date: 1 March 2010 16:25
> Subject: HyperGrids -- connecting virtual worlds for OpenSim and web arch
> To: TAG List <www-tag at w3.org <mailto:www-tag at w3.org>>
> Cc: Christa Lopez <lopez at ics.ucs.edu <mailto:lopez at ics.ucs.edu>>
>
>
> Interesting to see what connections there should be between web 
> architecture and the hypergrid. Does the hypergrid use URIs? Can I put 
> one in a HTML page and link to a virtual world portal?  Can I link 
> back the other way, putting an arbitrary URI in a link in a virtual world?
>
> "The Hypergrid: An Architecture for a New Web: OpenSim is chartering 
> territory in making Virtual Worlds interoperable with each other and 
> with the Web. At the heart of it there is the Hypergrid, an emerging 
> architecture that allows the seamless transfer of users' agents 
> between grids operated by different entities. While the Hypergrid is 
> coming to life in the context of OpenSim-based 3D Virtual Worlds, its 
> foundations shed a new light into what the Web could be."
> -- http://metaverse.stanford.edu/agenda/crista-lopes/crista-lopes
>
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/ <http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Elopes/>
>
> See also 
> http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2009/05/hypergrid-101-why-its-good-for-business/ 
> etc
>
>
> Is anyone on the TAG following the connections with OpenSim?
>
> Tim BL
>
>
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