This is just a quick note that there will be a voice-over-IP enabled OpenSimulator available as a public image on EC2 within the next days.
After some (well, a lot!) of tweaking we are finishing this up right now and it works very well already. The notion is to have a (nearly) out-of-the box solution for virtual conferences with extranet or intranet like character. It tries to save you from the hassle of finding sources, libraries and configurations.
You simply start the image into the cloud and associate an elastic IP to it. Then after you go through the standard OpenSim setup, the voice support is there – you only need to enter the IP address or domain name once in the setup. Then some scripts configure of Freeswitch and OpenSim correctly according to the Amazon Elastic IP provided.
As I said it is as good as ready so if anybody wants to give it a try early then leave a note.
PixelCity is a fantastic project done by Shamus Young, who did something that I wanted to do for a long time and after a couple of unsatisfying experiments postponed this into the future:
He had the guts to not only succeed but also document this in an 11 part story into his blog which is well worth reading in its entirety.
The hint came from the Digital Urban Blog and it seems they got the link from FlowingData and I deliberately steal the text from Digital Urban by reciting:
Shamus Young of Twenty Sided has a fantastic walk through of creating a Procedural City, complete with source code. Shamus’s goals were to create a night time cityscape that made predominantly of of lights and suggestions rather than real detail.
and
The city is entirely procedurally generated, no art assets, textures or models are used – which makes for a really interesting approach, especially from our point of view of always starting from the basic model/texture and building up to the cityscape.
I could do this of course even better but just not in this century. I think.
to this blog, web3dblog.wordpress.com. Unfortunately the domain got cancelled before we could properly announce the new domain, so I hope this propagates as soon as possible (please spread).
Also the old domain seems to be worth 3000 bucks, so go ahead and buy it and make somebody rich!
(no, not me, but hopefully René):
Other than that we’ll continue here ASAP, so stay tuned.
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