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Beginnings Of The Metaverse For The Gaming World

Posted by timothy on from the meet-interesting-people-don't-kill-them dept.

narq writes "From the world of Counter-Strike comes an interactive 3D environment for online interactions. Users will be able to accomplish productive goals or just waste time. I can't wait for the sword fighting algorithms to start to take shape. Here is the post at Counter-Server."

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  1. Definitely Cool by raiyu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is definitely a cool idea, and its just another step towards William Gibson's view of the future web (read Idoru). Its definitely more fun to actually traverse a DustCity instead of forum categories, and it certainly does better to make your online conversations more interesting.

    I think it would be interesting if someone setup an open source project/community for a similar deal. Have everyone build up their own identities, instead of just being limited to nicks you can finally have 3d physical representations of yourself. But I guess that would be moving towards the idea of a virtual city, but then again that would definitely be interesting.

    Would also be fun to see how people would hack such a project.

  2. John Carmack by javilon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This reminds my of one of the interviews he gave when Quake III was finished.

    From what I recall he said that he was surprised not many people were interested in metaverse type worlds.
    He said that if enough people would be interested he would think about giving it a shot.

    Now this guys are using his code (quake II engine) to try and implement it.

    I bet he will be interested.

    By the way, there are a couple of projects along the same line using the free (LGPL) 3D engine Crystal Space ( crystal.sourceforge.net)

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