[HN Gopher] Open Simulator ___________________________________________________________________ Open Simulator Author : privong Score : 63 points Date : 2021-10-16 20:30 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (opensimulator.org) (TXT) w3m dump (opensimulator.org) | sdfjkl wrote: | Heh, I played with this when I was working in the Second | Life/Virtual world bubble (around 2008). Back then it was called | OpenSim and the code was a mess, not made any better by running | in an itself very buggy (at least then) Mono runtime. | Enthusiastic hackers working on it though! | | Back then the client (viewer) was still closed source, which | seems to have changed since. | mmaunder wrote: | BBC article on metaverse yesterday got me thinking that the time | may have come for the success of lifesim/metaverse applications. | I think we'll see several providers emerge as we did with social, | some consolidation and failures, with a single large provider | remaining, as with search and social networks. I think the media | frenzy and megatrend needed to support this is starting right | now. You could do worse than re reading neuromancer. | mmaunder wrote: | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58749529 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-10-17 23:00 UTC)