On Jan 22, 2011, at 6:39 AM, Groove wrote: > I'm new to virtual worlds, but looking at setting up a sim server for > educational use. > I have a couple of questions about realXtend...
Welcome :) We have made quite an interesting toolset for educational use recently -- there is not much of it out yet (like videos or a demo server), but hopefully soon enough. > 1) Can assets/worlds designed for opensim be used in Taiga? As far as the server goes, yes, because Taiga is Opensim (just with some modules added). It is more of a viewer question. Naali has basic prim support, so things should work. It is not currently optimized for rendering a large number of small individual prims, though. In our project with schools we've used meshes (but don't expect the teachers and the pupils to know polygon modelling - have just added tools how they can create 3d text objects and bring in images and web pages etc. easily to new meshes, and use ready-made mesh objects from the web). > 2) How mature is voice support using Taiga + Naali? We have had mumble support since last May or so, and as far as I know people have been happy with it. It has been enhanced along the way, mostly by adding configuration features like allowing separate voice channels for groups etc. (that was also made in that project with schools). > 3) Is there any way to auto-login a user (with real name) who is > logged in to a Joomla or Moodle site? Yes. We have used web login to authenticate both with OpenID (google, yahoo, all kinds of providers) and Microsoft LiveID (which is similar I think). If Joomla or Moodle can act as an OpenID provider, it should just work. If not, is quite simple to add something to your website to allow authentication. Those openid authentication things in current Taiga are from the Cable Beach 2 project by Intel, which I think later changed to be Simiangrid .. it might be quite straightforward to upgrade to simiangrid usege too if needed. In Naali the web authentication can be integrated in the viewer GUI as it embeds a web viewer. But I think there is also already builtin support for launching the viewer from an authenticated external web browser. > 4) Can Taiga run on cloud servers (eg Rackspace or Amazon)? I think yes, has the same requirements as Opensim in general. Am not 100% sure though, don't do hosting myself. ~Toni -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
