A lot of development has occured since my last post. Many opensource viewer clients have be launched. Most notably RealXtend’s viewer seems to have some more features than SL viewer. OpenViewer is another open source 3D world viewer, written in C#.
RealXtend enhances the SL viewer and provides some good facilities like inverse kinematics. RealXtend uses the Opensim Server and promises us truely free 3D internet. A RealXtend viewer can connect to any ReadXtend server. This allows viewers portability accross Servers. This is the openess which 3d web would need.
Effort to make open source internet platform. It is based on verse protocol, which is a light weight , low latency protocol for transfer of 3d data across applications over network. Has plugins for Gimp and Blender. Not very easily deployable. Keeping track.
Google launched browser based virtual world viewer lively. I installed lively and am experimenting with it. Created the room for the institute here. Currently no support for money or scripting.
Vivaty has a browser based virtual world and they have started their presence through a facebook application. Currently no support for money or scripting. Works only with Internet Explorer.
This is completly flash based browser client for virtual world. Good quality. Created room here
Browser based client, seems to me the best overall look and feel. However still need to explore.
