[x3d-public] Reality

[Joseph D Williams]

➢ So I think, defining virtual reality via the term of collaboration might be problematic.

The concept is built-in and assumed to be present at all times with no need for special emphasis because the worldwildweb without collaboration becomes chaotic and thus problematic.

From: John Carlson
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2022 9:26 AM
To: Christoph Valentin
Cc: Joseph D Williams; X3D Graphics public mailing list
Subject: Re: [x3d-public] Reality

Also, the web in the past has been a solo activity, with tools like Meteor not being very popular.

There’s a whole raft of collaboration research.   I think it’s typically called “whiteboarding,” but I’m not positive on that.

I tried to do collaborative programming by demonstration, using Mark Linton’s InterViews. This kind of thinking (Fresco was supposed to be a CORBA based windowing system) kind of died when the web came out, but there are still tools like Google docs out there.

We have various varieties of chat today.  I saw a post recently about Second Life being upgraded.

In other words, the web has not really been a collaborative system, but there are exceptions like Git.

One might consider git as a basis for Virtual Reality.

Your thoughts?

John

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 3:42 AM Christoph Valentin <christoph.valentin at gmx.at> wrote:
About "collaboration":

I am not 100% sure, but I think, Don once told me collaboration not being one of the "core" topics at Web3D.

So I think, defining virtual reality via the term of collaboration might be problematic.

Opinions?
Am 23.01.22, 01:16 schrieb Joseph D Williams <joedwil at earthlink.net>:
 
Virtual reality is collaboration with reality.
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