Comments on: Race for a Web viewer is on

By: Maria Korolov

Maria Korolov — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:39:10 +0000

Neil — I think it's just regular Web traffic. It uses ActiveX — I didn't have to open any special ports to get it to work. –Maria

By: Neil Canham

Neil Canham — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:03:17 +0000

Maria – did you happen to notice what the port requirements were for the plugin? Wrapping a viewer in a browser doesn't do much for me, but proxying everything through port 80 certainly would be a huge advantage!

By: 3D OpenViewer almost ready for prime time - Hypergrid Business

3D OpenViewer almost ready for prime time - Hypergrid Business — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:24:09 +0000

[...] the bare-bones 3Di OpenViewer download is only 10 megabytes, Sanwa’s viewer came in at over 40 — a very bulky [...]

By: Coming, A Dedicated Portal For Second Life | Second Life Blogger

Coming, A Dedicated Portal For Second Life | Second Life Blogger — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:47:24 +0000

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By: Troppo The Blog » Design and Marketing in SL and RL » Blog Archive » 3Di in the browser showing Troppo Grid! OpenSim

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:10:37 +0000

[...] to go but every journey start’s with a single step. Big thank you to Zonja Capalini and to Maria Korolov for pointing me in the right direction. This looks like a big step [...]

By: Valiant Westland

Valiant Westland — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:03:20 +0000

I predict the 3Di Virtual World Web Plug-in is going to usher in a Tsunami of Virtual World adoption! I believe it also represents the single greatest competitive threat to Linden Lab's Nebraska offering.

Although it is unlikely serious Virtual World users / "publishers" will adopt embedded technology as a replacement for a dedicated client anytime soon, it's going to be a different story with corporate and casual users alike. Corporate clients who have been deterred by the onerous implementation and support challenges associated with dedicated VW client software will see a slip-streamed plug-in as a solution for Intraworld (Intranet + Virtual World) as well as customer-facing deployments.

Since most people are already comfortable downloading plug-ins like Flash for browsers, the barrier ("cost of entry") to Virtual Worlds will be significantly reduced. The biggest challenge facing plug-in adoption will be server capacity. Any web site hosting a virtual world destination, risks crashing the target sim with a flood of web-directed plug-in-enabled visitors. The "perfect storm" for the adoption of browser-based (plug-in) 3D/Virtual World clients will happen when the plug-ins are simple to install and point to servers that can host multiple hundreds or even thousands of simultaneous connections.

Despite the 3Di announcement, the dream of having a ubiquitous, industry standard web interface for virtual worlds remains just that, a dream. My hope is that this announcement puts the competitive spurs to Linden Lab, Mozilla, Microsoft, OpenSim and the rest of the Virtual World industry, to develop and support this technology.