>Realm: a sub domain within a Metaverse. Realms cannot exist within
> realms.
Why? It seems obvious and natural to me that a hierarchy of such
realms would emerge, with increasingly specific definitions. I don't
see any reason why they *have* to be disjoint.
>To further the concept of the realm, an entrance point should exist.
Again, why? I mean, this may be appropriate for *some* realms, but it
seems distinctly unnatural to me. It's a cliche in MUDs that there's
always some kind of entrance, but that doesn't strike me as modeling
the real world particularly well. Is there any good reason to keep
this assumption?
>As an accepted standard people would build their own private Metaverse
>as a member of the Matrix. The Matrix would define only a few basic aspects
>of the VR world, to give a small navigatable structure. Some of these
>aspects could be location (how locations are handled, based off physical
>or virtual coordinates), representation (how a Metaverse is represented,
>perhaps group Metaverses by type, along the same lines of internet names
>using .com .edu .org etxtensions, where a certain node is automatically
>associated with the type (such as a square for com, sphere for org,
>etc), and a better detailed node could be aquired by accessing the
>Metaverse proper.
This *sounds* a little more over-arching than I'm comfortable with.
Why not just say that the only standards that are common across the
Matrix are the raw technical ones, and everything else is Metaverse
specific? I mean, I may well want to opt out of most everything here;
the top level should assume that only some fraction of the Net is
buying into these concepts at all...
I still greatly prefer the notion of defining VRMUDs in terms of the
users, instead of in terms of the places. Less overhead, clearer
delineation of the required technologies, less crowding in the
popular spots...
-- Justin
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"I believe it was Sir Alfred Hitchcock that said the pipes were invented by
a man watching another man carrying a pig to market, but that the pipes
never achieved the same quality of tone."