Hi All-
I am very pleased to hear that Jeff & others will be working on vnet
again. This is great. I hope I am able to contribute, as well - I'm
now a skilled Java programmer, and have a reasonable graspt of VRML 2.0
specs. I'm playing with the vnet source code now.
I have two comments/suggestions about the overall vnet project:
#1. I recently bought a spiffy new computer. I noticed that it is now
quite hard to find an adequate VRML 2.0 compliant client that will work
with VNET. Like, really hard. For a windows user there are no
easy-to-find & easy-to-install clients, in EITHER Netscape Navigator
4.5+/ 6.0, or IE5, that support VNET. If I, as a veteran VRML user &
programmer, have a hard time finding a client that does the job, it
means that new users have no chance. This is a SERIOUS problem.
#2. I have been following the discussion re. bandwidth & making vnet
massively multiuser. I wonder if this approach to massively multiuser
voice chat might help. Clearly VNET has some additional requirements
beyond voice chat, and multicast might help (speakfreely also supports
multicast), but it seems that the architechture described below might
well apply to vnet. Miriam suggested something similar when she
mentioned having the clients act as a server in some capacities.
http://www.peak.org/~stepheb/SFsite/specs/multiuser.html
Thanks, all, for your time and attention.
Regards,
Bruce Stephenson
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