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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The only real thing I’ve heard for MU besides HLA/DIS and your X3D project is NVIDIA’s Omniverse. I’ve written several MU projects, like chat, MU solitaire and a hypergraph editor (C, Java). I’ve also done MU work with JavaScript (Socket I/O).</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What I think we should to for MU is describe many forms of MU/networking, including Plant-based, Travel-based, Human-based (many forms of communication here), Animal-based, EM Spectrum-based, Water-based.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For communication, we can use different forms of I/O, the information, medium and channel. We should include broadcast and multicast.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My tendency would be to produce a network protocol similar to SQL or Bash. Not that I would enjoy doing it. People can leverage my example if they want to. I can provide more detail on RMI (pretty broken at this state) or my lircom protocols.</p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Bret Victor proposes something beyond normal Interactivity, which is creating programs with graphics (shapes)—originally. Recently, he’s been working on video environments, with non-virtual objects as well as projectors and cameras for I/O.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think Bret’s goal is creating programs with video.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We already have textual ways of creating programs.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Why not all three? Can we warp X3D into such a thing? That’s what X3D4.1 is about?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So how can we animate networking? How can we bring networking into the X3d designer’s toolchest. I believe that Unreal has blueprints and Unity has something too.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Say we want to have a presentation that shows graphics guys how to do networking in a hands-on way?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How can we convert a performance+simulation into a program instead of using text?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>