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1. Sean R. Lynch ☑️ (seanl@social.literati.org)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 21:13:57 UTC Sean R. Lynch ☑️

   I used to work at Linden Lab. Its founder, Philip Rosedale, wants to use blockchain to track virtual assets across different virtual worlds. With free content this doesn't matter so much; you can just point at some inventory server and have access to the same stuff everywhere. But the blockchain seems well-suited to tracking something like license keys for commercial content. This is not an application I care about, but I *do* care about decentralized virtual worlds.

   http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/03/vrba-high-fidelity-janusvr-metaverse.html

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 21:20:19 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • kaniini
     @kaniini @seanl And here I was going to say "federated metaverse when", and now you're telling me #OpenSim federates?
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 21:25:24 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • kaniini
     @kaniini @seanl
     
     http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
     
     > It also has an optional facility (the Hypergrid) to allow users to visit other OpenSimulator installations across the web from their 'home' OpenSimulator installation. In this way, it is the basis of a nascent distributed Metaverse.
     
     Excuse me, let me wipe the drool off my desk.
     
     I explored Second Life a bit back in 2008 when I was supposed to be writing my thesis. Didn't do much except creating a character, and going to the steampunk corner and the House of Sweden, so I wouldn't say I have a lot of experience of it. Never created anything.
     
     I hadn't even read Snowcrash at that point, but I knew that I felt it was a bit silly that I couldn't put up my own server instead of leasing someone's island.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 21:28:55 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • kaniini
     @seanl @kaniini IBM??
     
     Right, weren't they working on like visualizing their datacenters or something?
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 21:30:22 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • kaniini
     @kaniini @seanl Yeah, inventory and avatar would be interesting. You'd want to rate limit people or something, so they don't come onto your grid with some gigavoxel monstrosity.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 21:31:28 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • kaniini
     @seanl @kaniini I wish.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 21:36:00 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • kaniini
     @kaniini @seanl What's that? You need to formulate a coherent critique of Plato's cave to access the porn?
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 22:31:09 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • kaniini
     @seanl @kaniini Wow, it's like they implemented a real Star Trek transporter.