Re: soon to be developing again

[John Stewart]

Hi Miriam;

Yes, exactly. I am trying to mimic real life here with this one.

Rat is not "streaming", but it looks like that to people. 

What multicast is is almost like a broadcast (ie, your car radio)
but, only those people on the Internet who are participating get the
"broadcast" packets.

I am also trying to multicast the basic VNet info - this way it is
much faster than client/server mode, and does not have quite the same
scaling problems.

Neat, huh?

John.

> Hmmm... John, does this mean that you will be able to come into a world,
> walk up to someone and say "hello" into your microphone and the people
> nearby in the world hear you but others further away don't? Is RAT an audio
> streaming program? If this is what it does then boy, I sure could have used
> this during the Worldcon-VR event!!!