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Mechanisms of three-dimensional content transfer between the OpenSimulator and the Second Life Grid® platforms
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Sequeira, Luís Miguel Morgado, Leonel |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | Second Life Grid® is a platform for creating contiguous and persistent virtual worlds, particularly the well-known Second Life® virtual world, where all three-dimensional content is created by its own users (a feature supported by the platform). Developed by the Californian company Linden Lab (Linden Research, 2009a), Second Life was implemented using a distributed computing model, through the development of both a client application (freely distributed) as well as the server software (simulator). However, since the public release of the client applicationʼs source code in January 2007 (Linden, P., 2007), thus allowing the platformʼs communication protocols to be examined, a group of programmers has been developing a server application known as OpenSimulator (“Homepage,” 2009, July 12), which lead to the creation of alternative, Second Life-”compatible” virtual worlds (accessible through the same client application), but which are not being hosted or managed by Linden Lab. Since Second Life remains the core virtual world of this community of users, one way in which OpenSimulator has been used is as a low-cost prototyping environment for three-dimensional environments whose ultimate goal is deployment in the Second Life world. However, there is still no interconnection between the Second Life and OpenSimulator virtual worlds, and it is thus deemed necessary to create transfer mechanisms between them, which might be either manual or automatic. A pair of such transfer mechanisms was developed under the scope of this academic work, and that is described in this document. |
| Starting Page | 41 |
| Ending Page | 57 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1386/jgvw.5.1.41_1 |
| Volume Number | 5 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://repositorio.utad.pt/bitstream/10348/313/1/msc_lmsequeira.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1386/jgvw.5.1.41_1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
