Lots of interesting stuff deleted (I know very little about sound in virtual
worlds-- one general comment: a lot of the issues you raise are really
quality of browser issues; smart browsers will try to simulate virtual sound
in virtual environments more realistically...).
> I very much like the "privacy" and radiusOfPerception suggestions... And
> Gavin, about the looping -- If VRML loops sound files, I assume it will do
> so externally to whatever loops the file (aiff, say) might have built into
> it...? A loop is a lovely thing, however...
It would be nice if the "loopiness" was built in to the external format; some
sounds will be designed to be looped (engine noise, crickets, ...) while
others won't (speech, crashes, ...).
If a sound isn't looped, we'd have to somehow define what makes it start.
That won't be answered until we've defined a general mechanism for
interaction and behaviors in the virtual world.