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05.10.10Betting on the Future of 3D: OnLive, WebGL, and Google Shifting Gears from O3DStreaming 3D content and 3D in the browser are the next frontiers in the evolution of technologies that allow for immersive environments and virtual worlds. On the one hand, server-side rendering of games and virtual worlds are being touted by OnLive and Otoy as the path to ubiquity: there's no need to download a multi-Gigabyte-sized game world when you can have it streamed to your desktop. Forget loading Warcraft onto your hard drive, simply boot up your browser and start playing. Server-Side Rendering OnLive sums up the story: OnLive is launching the world's highest performance Games On Demand service, instantly delivering the latest ...
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03.08.10The Web, Drifting into ViewIt's "Time to Take the Internet Seriously" according to a thought-provoking grab bag of insights by David Gelernter on the Edge. And I couldn't help reading it in the context of my belief that virtual worlds had been staking a new claim for what our digital lives could be like, that worlds like Second Life were prototyping new models for how we might interact, be, imagine, and express our online culture - open ended, imagination driven, clunky tools as 'social media' but rich sources for storytelling or connection. Second Life as a story box....but Second Life as an island where we ...
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06.11.09OpenSim Servers Hacked, Metanomics FailHyperGrid reported a few days ago about an attack on servers that brought down hundreds of web sites and openSim regions. The attack took down simulators hosted on Linux shared virtual servers, leaving grids like Reaction Grid, which runs on Windows servers immune. I don't know enough about this stuff, but it sounds to me like OpenSim itself wasn't the target, but was swept up in the server take-downs. Regardless, the event left hundreds of regions in melt-down, and owners scrambling to pull back-ups out of inventory to restore the work. As OpenSim gains traction, the measure of its success will increasingly ...
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01.17.09Geeky Goodness: Virtual Worlds, Scaling, Scrum, Ogre, and SecurityI'm not a geek. I don't understand agile development, other than I think the word sounds cool and who wouldn't want to be agile? My response to the term 'scaling' is typically along the lines of "well, can't you just buy more machines or something?". OK, so now that I've established my geek credentials, I'm going to share a bunch of coding links because maybe someone will comment on whether this stuff is relevant or not. Scaling Virtual Worlds Jim Waldo posts on the experiences with Sun Microsystem's Project Darkstar and how to address issues of scaling virtual worlds. His main point ...
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