[Opensim-users] Google stadia game changer for opensim?

[Dr Ramesh Ramloll]

' Aren't viewers built with SDL for display?  There's an SDL library for
Android.  OpenTTD is a C++ program built with SDL, and has an Android port
which plays just the same.  It has some extra UI options to facilitate use
with a touchscreen and no keyboard.  I don't know how much other work they
had to do to port it.'

This would have been great except that this is not a simple UI problem that
can be ticked off through a selection of UI options. Half of the
optimization problem involves in world coding that does not touch the UI
aspect.

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:28 PM Ethan Gardener <eekee57 at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, at 3:59 PM, Ethan Gardener wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, at 1:29 PM, Haravikk wrote:
> > >
> > > There's also something to be said for privacy; a true virtual world is
> > > so much more personal than games like Call of Duty, Fortnite etc.,
> > > you're not just dressing up the same basic player(s) that everyone
> else
> > > has, you're creating an avatar that *is* you, or an extension of you,
> > > in a virtual world. Introducing another party into that pipeline
> (other
> > > than grid, sim and you) feels weird to me.
> >
> > I don't see the problem here.  Even taking the simplest possible case:
> > roleplaying or personal chat on IRC, the server and your local computer
> > (which may have malware) are already handling lots of very personal
> > expression.
>
> [I pressed the wrong key combination on my Twiddler & sent it before it
> was done, sorry.]
>
> Apart from that one point, I've given up paying attention whenever any
> corporation or blogger announces a "game changer" because there are so many
> announcements and so very very few which make any real difference.  I'd pay
> a little more attention if I was in the biz, just in case it's got a
> chance, but I've seen so much hype that the very words "game changer" no
> longer brighten my day! (chuckling)  A true game changer can only be
> recognized in hind sight.  Perhaps Google have got some sort of price drop
> in the offing, but I don't see how they could bring it to everyone in the
> same way that the price of remote storage was suddenly hugely cheaper when
> AWS and GCS appeared.
>
> Taking a guess, I think this announcement is a political move against
> certain US states with internet access worse than the third world and
> effectively protected by law.  If lots of companies jump on the streaming
> bandwagon it will widen the gulf between states with reasonable and
> unreasonable internet laws, increasing democratic pressure for change.
> Until that change happens, a streaming service will be accessible to less
> people, not more.
>
> Aren't viewers built with SDL for display?  There's an SDL library for
> Android.  OpenTTD is a C++ program built with SDL, and has an Android port
> which plays just the same.  It has some extra UI options to facilitate use
> with a touchscreen and no keyboard.  I don't know how much other work they
> had to do to port it.
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