At 09:13 AM 02/01/2000 -0600, Christopher K. St. John wrote:
>Miriam English wrote:
>> * distributed server (perhaps adapting the DIS-Java-VRML project's work) so
>> that VR becomes more like the web, allowing various parts of the one world
>> (or universe) to live on different machines, like how we currently do with
>> avatars. VNet doesn't yet have the concept of universes containing worlds,
>> but this would enable that.
>>
>
> Does "universes containing worlds" mean something like having a portal
>that links two independent vnet worlds, or do you mean a more complex
>sharing of some sort?
It is just to distinguish between
- worlds that either live on the same server or closely cooperating
servers, thus allowing people to jump between worlds
- and servers that are not easily bridged so that a whole new
universe needs to be logged into.
It would be cool to be able to jump between worlds without having to log
out then back in to another one. If you can jump between worlds without
logging in all over again then I would say that they are in the same
universe. This is just terminology taken from the ActiveWorlds universes.
Cheers,
- Miriam
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