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May 11th, 2008
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05.11.08MIT Review of VastPark P2PMIT's Technology Review reports on VastPark's efforts to deal with 'sudden crowds' that appear in virtual world environments. Overloading a sim is no surprise to users of Second Life, but even game environments "shard" their environments to handle upper limits of users. With other places, the overload is spread across different servers, but with VWs, this should not be allowed to happen because, as the articles states, "friends need to be kept together, so that they can interact." VastPark, is intending to use P2P networks to handle the overload. Basically, the app. means that a company using this setup will have to ...
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