At 09:23 22/11/98 -0800, Jeff Sonstein wrote:
>I have a sick kid
Aww... hope Danielle is feeling better...
>so I just hung out at the Town Square on ariadne
>for a few hours yesterday...
Explains why I missed seeing ya.
> - about the Conference in general?
ULTRA-COOL !!!!
I spent 5 1/2 hours online! Most of it at ActiveWorlds. There were
_throngs_ of people... it was a thrill !!
I attended a couple of talks there, one of which was being given by a guy
named Hannes (can't remember his last name) from MIT Media Lab. Very
interesting with a fair bit of audience input. It was about next generation
avatars. Felt so weird having the talk about avatars being delivered by an
avatar in VR.
I was at the closing ceremony and saw Victoria (my2keys) who, with Rudy
(netropolis), took out the first prize with an ActiveWorlds avatar named
Summer. She is an utterly gorgeous avatar with a very skimpy costume
constructed of flapping butterflies, and she holds, and from time to time
strokes, a rabbit (in that wonderful way AW avatars have of fidgetting).
Just brilliant! They deserved to win. The fact that it was not a VRML
avatar highlights that we all have lots of work to do.
The mainstream VRML effort needs (in my opinion) to more fully embrace the
H-Anim effort to make it more of a well known guideline. We have our work
cut out for us... ActiveWorlds are moving the goalposts way ahead.
Speaking of work to be done... the number of people simultaneously at the
ActiveWorlds conference was stupendous. We need to get VNet up to somewhere
near that capability. ActiveWorlds proves that it can be done.
> - about VNet specifically?
I had a nice time in Vnet, as always -- one thing about the people who make
it to VNet is that they seem to be a very pleasant group. A couple of times
in ActiveWorlds I met rude people, but that is probably just because of the
vast number of people who go there... there are bound to be some who are
not really interested, but are just there to avoid boredom.
I meant to get around to looking in on my own world, but after the shift at
the Town Square I was eager to get to ActiveWorlds... so I never made it
around to any of the other VNet worlds :-(
Thanks to Bruce who relieved me towards the end of my shift, and Cati for
chats while there. Also Jon... is he on this list? Glad he got his skin on
OK :-)
> - about Town Square performance on ariadne?
Lag problems a few times, and a couple of times I suspect what looked like
lock-up may actually have been very long lag.
>thanks very much are due
>to the folks who took time to be available
>"on-site" as guides during the event...
Cool ! Count me in on the next events.
Best wishes to all you pioneers out there (for that is what we are),
- Miriam
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