[HN Gopher] Open Simulator
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       Open Simulator
        
       Author : privong
       Score  : 63 points
       Date   : 2021-10-16 20:30 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (opensimulator.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (opensimulator.org)
        
       | sdfjkl wrote:
       | Heh, I played with this when I was working in the Second
       | Life/Virtual world bubble (around 2008). Back then it was called
       | OpenSim and the code was a mess, not made any better by running
       | in an itself very buggy (at least then) Mono runtime.
       | Enthusiastic hackers working on it though!
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       | Back then the client (viewer) was still closed source, which
       | seems to have changed since.
        
       | mmaunder wrote:
       | BBC article on metaverse yesterday got me thinking that the time
       | may have come for the success of lifesim/metaverse applications.
       | I think we'll see several providers emerge as we did with social,
       | some consolidation and failures, with a single large provider
       | remaining, as with search and social networks. I think the media
       | frenzy and megatrend needed to support this is starting right
       | now. You could do worse than re reading neuromancer.
        
         | mmaunder wrote:
         | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58749529
        
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