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Commercial Interest In Open-Source 3D Environment

Posted by timothy on from the giant-shoulders-cleared-for-standing dept.

cellulama writes "Is virtual reality back? A commercial vendor has started developing for Croquet, which is an open-source tool for collaborating and sharing data, with an emphasis on 3D visualization. The system was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for research and "co-creativity," but a company named 3Dsolve is looking for military applications. What's next -- open-source America's Army?"

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  1. Distributed events... worrying by CrosbieFitch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Distributing events is too fragile.

    They're still over-fixated on synchronisation.

    Gotta distribute state man. It's the only way.