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wp34:


--- Quote from: Le Chuck on March 01, 2012, 07:05:56 pm ---
Takes off?  We're in full flight man.  You just need to drop in and actually do some nominating  ;D


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I'm planning on it.  I've been looking through the Project forum trying to find ones I might have missed.  It is a PITA though trying to determine when  exactly (or if) a project was completed.  I think this particular en-devour would really help in future years. 

EightBySix:

Part of my day job is designig and building virtual environments for meetings / client demos etc.

We would each have an avatar to visit an environment that could be built out as - say - a replica of an arcade. It would be quite cool to have events and meetups there. BYOAC awards ceremonies maybe? Cab completion parties with a 3D model of the project with pics and videos nearby?

There are a couple of options that spring to mind:

1) SecondLife.

We could club together to buy an island, or a portion of one. I used to rent a 1024m2 area for around $25/m. It's recently had 'mesh' imports added (collada format) which would allow us to upload models. Client software is free.

2) OpenQwaq

This is an open sourced version of a commercial (now defunct) product called teleplace. It's free, but would need someone to host a unix box for us. This is more focussed on collaboration (you can work on office documents on a wall with other avatars, for example)




leapinlew:

Maybe this will help you get this 3d arcade thing out of your system



kahlid74:


--- Quote from: EightBySix on March 02, 2012, 07:59:48 am ---2) OpenQwaq

This is an open sourced version of a commercial (now defunct) product called teleplace. It's free, but would need someone to host a unix box for us. This is more focussed on collaboration (you can work on office documents on a wall with other avatars, for example)


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What does OpenQwaq look like?

If Saint couldn't host it I could but I'd be interested in the raw amount of data OpenQwaq would be sending clients.  Would it be server side or client side rendered?

EightBySix:

If you do a google image search for teleplace (same software) you'll get the idea. Mainly office environments, but that's due to its target market rather than capabilities.





It's client side rendered, so it's faily modest in terms of bandwidth requirement.


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