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I don't disagree that FB's acquisition of Oculus VR could see a rash of interest in terms of major players poking at VR. However, I was addressing your core musing on where Facebook may go with Oculus...
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There's other reasons to buy up companies than because you need their expertise. You can also buy them to deny their expertise to your competitors, or buy them so that they don't develop into...
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It is funny in a way, when I'm reading through here I can see how the current experiences of various players in this space definitely affect their viewpoints on what is important.Those who have put a...
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It will be VERY exciting to see what happens when large numbers of people -- and large amounts of money -- is thrown at these problems.I just hope in the process that the little guys don't get locked...
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While you didn't mention anyone Tranquility, you're making a lot of assumptions about how other companies architecture is designed. Not all systems scale the same way nor are they all managed the same....
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As you've already correctly stated different companies solve these problems in different ways. I just don't see configuration management and deployment as the killer app here. Not when you have...
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We view the virtual world architecture itself as just part of the solution. It could be OpenSim, it could be something else. It doesn't really matter. The main challenge is creating an architecture...
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So as you've stated above, achieving the goal of millions of virtual environments active and running at the same time with users inside them is a much harder problem than just configuration management...
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This where federation comes in. The hypergrid, without any additional technical tweaks, is already fully scalable. It reminds me a lot of the early Web. Sure, individual websites crashed when they got...
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On the one hand, the propriety infrastructure to console gaming has provided a relatively stable means of support (a living) to thousands of programmers and artists in a marketplace that, for better...
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"But that's an issue only as long as the current OpenSim business model is based on renting land to store owners who somehow believe that turning off hypergrid protects them against copybotting."But...
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I completely agree that there is much more to scalability at that size than just being able to quickly start more servers. Which is why it required writing a lot of proprietary code. As you said, this...
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Eventually no matter how you shard the infrastructure, even setting up 100 "HG Facebook grids" you'll need to be able to handle the presence and messaging loads from intra/inter-shard communications....
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I think a lot of what I say is taken as very capitalist or commercial, but ultimately it comes down to this. People need to eat and deserve to be paid a fair wage for their work. I want VR/VWs to get...
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Many thanks for making this, maria.I used Kitely market yesterday to buy goods for my diva hg standalone - allwent very smoothly, very impressed with the delivery system - great workKitely:) I suspect...
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and ty-)) and, yes, getting your favorite creators to move out from SL is a difficult thing, mostly due to a lot of disinformation passed around by people with obvious, and not so obvious,...
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Absolutely. Zuckerberg is looking much further down the road at "social VR". He made that pretty clear in his statements following the acquisition. While that doesn't exclude the use of VWs in that...
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Are you and Tranquillity (Inworldz) aware of Phillip Rosedale's 'HighFidelity' project, highfidelity.io where he plans to use the computing power of the vast user base's home computers to power that...
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1. Rosedale quoted a study 'said that the amount of energy needed do do things in virtuality (e.g. education, design, business conferences, building construction) was between 1/100th and 1/1000th of...
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