[Foundation-l] MMORPG and Wikimedia

[Dan Rosenthal]

On May 6, 2010, at 10:24 PM, geni wrote:

> On 7 May 2010 03:17, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The obvious example that comes to mind is the 3D virtual world physics as a tool for disseminating knowledge. For instance, I was looking up various model Porsche race cars the other day on Wikipedia. No amount of text can truly describe the intangible differences in control between driving a Porsche and a Ferrari. If one could go into a virtual world and drive a virtual representation of one, we've filled a knowledge gap.
>> 
>> Don't get hung up on the fact that this (used) to be a game, but rather view it as an open source 3D virtual world environment that can scale to an extremely large number of simultaneous users. It's a framework, which can be evolved over time -- that's something we should at least be keeping an eye on and encouraging, while exploring what ways we can integrate our content.
>> 
>> -Dan
> 
> 3D objects could already be supported as .blend files although we
> don't at this point.
> 
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> geni
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But not the manipulation of them in a fully interactive physics based 3d environment with simultaneous interaction from thousands of other concurrent users.

-Dan