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OpenSim in the Cloud?

On the Horizon is this cloud and it is getting larger, is it a storm cloud or will it as the day progresses turn out to be a fluffy white summer’s day cloud?

How will The Google Chrome OS affect this cloud?

I look at what is my workstation today, my view is one laptop and two tower’s one acting as a server and my N95 phone. My view in a few years from now will change. My workstation will be less cluttered more and more of my work will be done on  smaller and more mobile devices.

Will this be the end of the pc as we now know it?

What about a photorealistic view of 3D environment’s the Nvidia’s Reality Server 3.0 will help to do just that. Running OpenSimulator on a Reality Server sounds like a good idea why not do all the crunching and hard work in the cloud and display it all in the browser (viewer 3DI?).

Building with prims somehow pardon the pun feels a bit primitive but how do we make new designs without first building them? Recreating existing objects is one thing but new design and future buildings needs to be created in some way. As it stands right now I am very comfortable to do that in opensim for me it works well.

Building and designing in the cloud could be done with an extension, add on in the viewer like a builders tool no need for everyone to carry a toolbox.

If most if not all crunching is done in the cloud augmented reality looks like an amazing world where we could interact with objects and complex buildings on the hop. I cast my eye outside it is early in the morning a clear sky, again a hot day but wait there is a small cloud on the horizon

Have a good day all……..

I had a look at Photosynth  8 or so months ago  so I thought it was time for me to come back and have another look. I think I am of the same impression as I was months ago this looks Ok but  or am I missing something here? It feels like it is potential brilliant but something is missing  I think I come back in a few months time. This is how the lounge room of the Picasso home looks like  but you cant beat being there 

For the last 3 months or so we have been working on our new Grid.  We made a decision to scale down our presence in SecondLife  Why?

Many reasons  Zonja Capalini has an excellent post about a very similar situation, I could not express it better myself so please read and thank you Zonja

OpenSim can offer us what we been looking for in SL but could not find,  a guest account, backup system, hypergrid, private server a way to be in charge of what we do.

I am fully aware of the shortcomings OpenSim has at the moment however Troppo Grid has been surprisingly stable and so far I have nothing but praise and admiration for the OpenSim development team the progress in the last 3 months just amazing… Maybe because Troppo Grid only has 9 regions and at the moment has two servers looking after its existence it works so well (and I like to add at a cost less than half of  One SL region).  We are looking to develop  small Grids servicing the Real Estate and building Industry working as a marketing and selling tool, the Grid’s all connecting via hypergrid technology. The final product  working much like the 2D net as we know and use today. Oh and I forgot to say we are having plenty of fun putting all this together thank you all for helping ………