Re: [Opensim-users] Hoping for a fearless comparison of opensim vs unity 3D

2014-07-22 Thread Tom Willans
I agree with Justin about a big difference being to persistent metaverse and longer term social dynamics, formation of identity etc. I suspect that many educational uses think in one off terms eg a collaborative class in business collaboration even if there is concern about reuse of assets o reu

Re: [Opensim-users] Hoping for a fearless comparison of opensim vs unity 3D

2014-07-22 Thread Kay McLennan
*On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Wade > wrote:* > *This discussion has been the most enlightening I've seen in a long time! > **Thank you everyone!* *I couldn't agree more and further, cannot seem to disengage from this fascinating discussion!* *On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 6:08 AM, DrDoug Pen

[Opensim-users] Need advice concerning firestorm for open sim

2014-07-22 Thread admin
I am looking for someone who is involved in the firestorm community for opensim. I know second life and open sim are almost the same, but I need some who knows opensim as well. If there anyone who is, please Email me at ad...@simb2b.com Second, is there anyone who builds custom avatars? Also pl

[Opensim-users] Newbie Linux Admin Question

2014-07-22 Thread The Pierce Family
I have the following server setup: one Linux-based robust server (containing robust, sql, and initial welcome region), one linux-based region server, and one Windows 7-based region server. My primary reason for moving from a windows-based windows server to linux-based is for the opportunity to

[Opensim-users] Oculus Rift:- Cyber Sickness

2014-07-22 Thread Tom
I have not heard about using travel-sickness tablests ? It may help. From my own perspective I can now use the Rift for hours where the first time using their demo I soon felt iffy. You can build up tolerance with gradually increasing exposure over time only I gather for some people it just g

Re: [Opensim-users] Need advice concerning firestorm for open sim

2014-07-22 Thread Wade
Danny, If you look on elance, a great source for freelance programmers and artists, at https://www.elance.com you can find 71 people listed as "3D Character Artist" and their rates. There are many more who list "Second Life". I didn't see many explicitly listing "open sim", but you could spec

[Opensim-users] Load test 2 report

2014-07-22 Thread Justin Clark-Casey
For anyone interested, I just wrote up a report on last week's load test on my blog at [1]. One point of interest is that I wrote some Python tools to crank out summary info and graphs from stat logs. To be honest, I spent most of my available load test time writing these but I think it's a wor

Re: [Opensim-users] Hoping for a fearless comparison of opensim vs unity 3D

2014-07-22 Thread Justin Clark-Casey
I wouldn't agree that people don't want to use virtual worlds as a communication medium. I suspect it depends heavily on the context. For instance, I'm currently involved with a student programme where many meetings are held in-world and there don't seem to be too many problems apart from occas

Re: [Opensim-users] Hoping for a fearless comparison of opensim vs unity 3D

2014-07-22 Thread Robert Martin
what i would like to see in a viewer is 1 the ability to disable loading of chunks (if i do not use the voice parts let me not load them at all) 2 a way to load the stuff in your sight range FIRST (why are you loading the ground texture when im at 20K altitude) 3 better support for small screens