[Opensim-dev] thinking about a viewer

[Frank Nichols]

"make it in a way it can better support functionality for handicapt people."

Absolutely - this will go a long way towards gaining acceptance!


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:16 AM, R.Gunther <rigun at rigutech.nl> wrote:

> Afree with this, i think its just a bit to early for a viewer.
> Its better if possible to adjust opensim to make it High Fidelity
> compatible.
> And als use there viewer, or write one thats based on high fidelity code.
> If you now write a viewer for opensim you possible have to many bandages
> needed later to adjust it for High Fidelity.
> High Fidelity can give a few parts that openmsim is now missing.
>
>
> On 2014-08-07 09:05, Ilan Tochner wrote:
>
>> I highly recommend that we avoid trying to start a viewer project from
>> scratch. Doing so without a dedicated group working full time for an
>> extended period of time will result in the viewer project's failure and the
>> growing irrelevance of the OpenSim project that will pend the availability
>> of this modern viewer.
>>
>> I suggest we either adopt and extend the realXtend project for our needs
>> (with or without its server architecture) or invest our collective R&D
>> resources towards pushing High Fidelity in the direction we want it to
>> evolve to. These liberally-licensed open source projects have already had
>> many developer-years worth of effort invested in them and are actively
>> developed by more people than are currently contributing to the OpenSim
>> codebase. It would be very unwise IMO to spend years reimplementing the
>> type of viewer they already have working.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ilan Tochner
>> Co-Founder and CEO
>> Kitely Ltd.
>>
>>
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