[Opensim-dev] Open metaverse - OpenSimulator's Contribution

[Ai Austin]

In the spirit of more discussion on Doug's request for thought on the 
direction for OpenSimulator....

OpenSimulator and its "grid of grids" (Hypergrid) approach is perhaps 
the nearest virtual worlds environment we current have that 
approximates the "Metaverse" as envisaged in popular culture. It is 
an approximation of what others seem to hint at when discussing the 
sorts of social networked virtual spaces that companies like High 
Fidelity and virtual reality headset companies like Oculus aspire to create.

I have started to collect some notes and links related to some of the 
valuable contributions to this in this blog post...
http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2015/08/14/open-metaverse-the-opensimulator-contribution/

Anyone still remember the time when a few folks could teleport 
between OpenSim and Second Life back in 2008? Work started on 
protocols for interchange of avatars and suitable portable and 
sharable content. That was not continued unfortunately. New 
commercial efforts seems to be more concerned with walled gardens 
than open standards and facilities to inter work with many other 
grids and technologies.

OpenSimulator could be a beacon to show the way and an experimental 
environment to test ideas.  That would be a very worthwhile goal in my view.