Comments on: immersive web

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:12:55 +0000

here’s two responses:

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=212
ethan questioning whether this is a rehashed conversation (even if it is interesting)

and

http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/wsfii-discuss/2005-October/000428.html
and Mamading with the technical and licensing issues

anyone else have thoughts on this?

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:30:55 +0000

and here’s boris’s version. It’s brilliant:

http://bopuc.levendis.com/weblog/archives/-2005/10/19/immersive_web.php

it’s very true that 1) he figured out for himself why this was important (good thing because I never would have figured out some of the stuff he talked about in that post) and 2) yes, his disclaimer needs to be said. We both realize that this is *not* a new conversation. What I am trying to argue is that recent growth of 3d environments (mmorpg’s) as well as recent success and newfound confidence of the open source movement makes it especially relevant right now.

By: bopuc/weblog

bopuc/weblog — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:32:07 +0000

Immersive Web

About a week ago I went for chinese food with Michael. We hadn’t seen each other in a few weeks and Mike had just returned from what seemed like a very exciting trip to Europe. He recounted parts of his…

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:35:41 +0000

(pin dropping)

(sigh)

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:29:19 +0000

from the “i’m brilliant” category (formerly known as the “i’m not crazy” dep)

Now *this* is what I call good timing. 1) Boris and I talk about open 3d. 2) Boris goes down to Harvard and talks to Ethan about it. He points Ethan to an email I wrote and contextualizes it for…

By: Boris Anthony

Boris Anthony — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:49:09 +0000

manual trackback, ethan just wrote an awesome entry following the SL appearance at Berkman:
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=280

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:09:58 +0000

forget about it

you know how i was so worried about the immweb emerging as a closed platform because of high startup costs between 25-75 million? well - looks like we can forget about that. Build Your Own MMOG “CNet reports about a…

By: name

name — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:52:44 +0000

Here’s a paper discussion possible protocols for a VR system such as this
Virtual Reality Architecture Standard

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:53:45 +0000

sorry the link don’t seem to work here’s the correct one
http://slwriters.cust.nearlyfreespeech.net/wiki/index.php/Virtual_Reality_Architecture_Standard

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:33:02 +0000

whodda thunk?

Second Life +is+ an OS link to earlier post where I was raising a fuss about this…

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Mon, 01 May 2006 23:10:13 +0000

frustrated

I felt everything coming together. all the work and thinking and conversations that I’ve been having over the last 3 years. all my questions, concerns and dreams from hacking the city to questioning who the people are that are hacking…

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:46:50 +0000

more on infrastructure

so - definition attempt. Large, complex systems with multiple levels including physical, software/intelligence, policy, human(?) that have attained a state of crucialness to our society whereas their interruption or dissapearance wouldn’t permit the co…

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:56:53 +0000

huh - maybe they’re *not* the devil.

Rob Flickenger from the wireless networking world points to some very interesting developments over at SecondLife. People within Linden Labs (the company that owns the massive video game Second Life) are aware of, and are provisionally approving and su…