2018 WW: HG: IMA: Web-worlds and OpenSim coming together

Web-worlds and OpenSim 
working together

Web-worlds and OpenSimulator are developing interconnections that make use of the strong points of each system.  In the future. web-worlds will serve limited needs on their own and will help users get into installed virtual worlds when more powerful services are needed.

Murky Mansion on Kitely 

(OpenSimulator)

• The last werewolf of Blanken, Part 1
• Oars transferred from OpenSim to 3DWebWorldz

Murky Mansion on 3DWW

• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• OpenSimulator
• Together---each doing what it does best
• Web-worlds for easy access.
• OpenSim for better builds, scripts, and resources.
• Web-worlds as gateway to OpenSimulator

Two Web worlds in public beta

• 3DWebWorldz
• CybaLOUNGE
• You can visit either of these as a guest, without registering.
• Guest entry encourages enter-on-impulse 

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What connections do we have now?

• The biggest: Virtual worlders are bringing their experience to web-worlds.
• We can move objects and OARS from OpenSim to web-worlds.
• Importing OAR files from OpenSim to Web Worlds: Convoar
• Thus we can replicate simple OpenSim worlds in web-worlds.  
• We can share events between worlds
• We can share chat between worlds 
• Dual streaming to Open Sim and 3DWebWorldz
• With the aid of Discord we can share voice between worlds.
• A specialized viewer could use Freeswitch, which is already used in web-worlds.
• We expect that most building will be done in OpenSim, where it is easy.
• We can then move completed builds to web-worlds.
• Content creators may consider selling web-world files from their websites.
• Alternatively, Kitely Market could sell directly to web-worlds.

What do we not have? 

• The main thing we don't have is a direct entry from web-worlds to OpenSim.
• We have web senders.  We could send a visitor to Firestorm to load a viewer.
• We could send a visitor to a grid registration page.
• We could talk an interested visitor through all that. 
• And we could meet visitors when they come in.  
• We would want to meet them in a place that looks like the web-world they know.

What do we need? 

• A viewer with maximum simplicity in installing.  
• Firestorm may have reached that level already
• A simple beginner's viewer offering only the services beginners need. 
• A cooperating grid that accepts the registration from the web-world site.
• So a web-world resident enters the grid with the same name and password.
• So we tell the person "Click the GoPro panel to go to OpenSim."
• We will probably want to install the viewer from a site under our control.
• That way we can make the installation as simple as possible.  
• And the person can go directly from viewer installation to a cooperating grid. 
• We can talk the person through the installation as needed.
• And we can meet the newcomer at the arrival point.  

Roadmap for connecting web-worlds and Open-sim

• Import OARS
• Oars transferred from OpenSim to 3DWebWorldz
• Shared IM (TBD needs viewer changes) 
• Shared voice  (TBD requires viewer changes)
• Shared performances (Hase been done, no tech problems)
• Instructions for OS entry (TBD No tech problems)
• Put web-world on grid registration page. (TBD needs grid cooperation) 
• Offer welcome times (TBD needs volunteers or pay)
• Simplify grid entry (TBD needs grid cooperation)

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• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• Web-worlds are small and run in a browser with nothing else to install.
• Full virtual worlds are a bigger experience but need extra software installed.
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