Hi folks! From the top of my head, I'd say this idea of yours sounds cool, but is probably going too far. After all, the idea is to present a synchronized world for everybody to *share*, i.e. Gibson's "consensual hallucination". If every user gets to see the world in an entirely different way, you will ultimately wind up in a situation where everybody can only work in its own private (view of the) world, and nobody understands anybody else anymore...
A: "Wow, that vobject over there looks so cool." B: "What vobject? I dont have that in my AOI list." A: "Its right there... what stupid kind of AOI management do you use?" B: "*My* AOI is fine, thank you very much. And who are you anyway, I don't see you!" A: "Huh? I'm staring right in your face." B: "I don't have to listen to rude voices in my head. Go away." Despite this extreme example, everybody *will* see the world in his or her or its own way anyhow, since every client may have a different kind of access to the VOS world. One may use libvos, someone else JaVOS, someone else a python client... And while a human user will want to see pretty animations, an agent likely does not really care about individual keyframes. So, everybody will get a form of your (b) already if they want to. Regarding (a), I don't see how a generic server could possibly support all weird kinds of queries a client may want to formulate. For example, assume your are at x=0. If a parent object P is at x=-20, but a child object C is at *relative* x=+15, do you report C in the 10 units AOI query? It is only 5 units away from you... but then, what about P? If you leave that out, C does not make sense! You may easily wind up in a situation like the conversation above. Bottom line: Let's not encourage divergent behaviour to a point where it gets schizophrenic, rather try to support a strong consensus. Regards, Karsten (kao) _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list vos-d@interreality.org http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
