<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e77716d3-b11e-1741-9b1b-582508d4443b"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mr Blue</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for raising the question..</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The viewer functionality should focus on user experience. Very sophisticated graphic and animation design applications are available for content creation. Bridging tools would be a better alternative to complex viewer interfaces.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A single topology may not be a viable option, especially when taking into account the diverse resources and location of participants . One approach here would be to distribute critical processing dynamically between the viewer and server. Distribution being the product of communication bandwidth, local processing capabilities and level of detail definition.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The development iterations that constitute the current permissions system means to me that evolution is not an option. Fundamental to any 3D environment is content and unless a flexible authentication and authorisation framework can be devised content distribution will always be problematic, thereby stifling creativity and innovation.</span></p>
<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IMHO this would have made an engaging in-world keynote debate. It would signal</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">to the community Opensim progressive commitment to virtual world technology.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yo</span></span><br><div><span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 August 2014 02:08, Mister Blue <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:misterblue@misterblue.com" target="_blank">misterblue@misterblue.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've been seriously thinking about creating a new viewer project. But with Maria's survey[1] and all the different virtual world announcements happening and the lively OpenSimulator vs Unity discussion on the opensim-user list, I'd like to open up the discussion to the OpenSimulator development community[2].<div>
<br></div><div>LL is making a new world and viewer (closed and proprietary as far as I know). HighFidelity is making a new world and viewer (open source with commercial 'grid services'). Unity 5 will have a multi-platform web viewer and a new multi-user backend (pricing not announced). There are various wonderful open source virtual world projects (realXtend, Virtual World Framework, ...) as well as many emerging technologies (xml3d, html5, asm.js). There are several forks of OpenSimulator (Aurora, ArribaSim, ...) that have made many enhancements to the base system. Add to that several successful virtual worlds build on OpenSimulator (inWorldz, Anvination, Kitely, ...) as well as a few packaged distributions of OpenSimulator (Diva, ...). Add to that the many SL/OpenSim third party viewers based on the LL viewer. And that's just in our sphere. There is much more happening in the gaming and education and training communities.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, what could a new viewer add to the mix? Whatever a new view does, it approaches the question of what OpenSimulator should be three years from now.</div><div><br></div><div>For me, there are two basic choices[3]: evolutionary change or revolutionary change.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Evolutionary change says to build on existing OpenSimulator. Make due with the existing LLLP (Linden Lab Legacy Protocol) and improve vehicles, make installation and use easier and add an easier to use and improve viewer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Revolutionary change would be striking off on a new virtual world architecture. It could have LLLP support but only for downward compatibility and to keep that community and content. But other questions arise: How would one build a viewer/virtual world where a HiFi avatar could stand next to a SL avatar? How could content be delivered to a viewer so it is displayable but is not in the original, copyable form? How to leverage the distribution and power of 'the cloud'[4]? How could one make hypergridable grids across the many virtual worlds?</div>
<div><br></div><div>What do you think? Evolution or revolution?</div><div><br></div><div>-- mb</div><div><div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2014/08/survey-better-vehicles-search-most-wanted-in-opensim/" target="_blank">http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2014/08/survey-better-vehicles-search-most-wanted-in-opensim/</a></div>
</div><div>[2] I see this expanding to other forums eventually.</div></div><div>[3] With a lot of gray area in between</div><div>[4] I'm always amazed by Google Maps -- it displays the map with traffic overlays and I can zoom in and out with almost immediate response. Why can't a virtual world viewer do that?</div>
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