Re: Worlds Chat

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Mon, 08 May 1995 10:15 -0700 (PDT)

Eric Olinger says:
>While this isn't directly related to VRML, some of you might be
>interested in taking a look at Worlds Chat, a 3D chat environment,
>including Avatars. The software requires Windows and is large (3 mb I
>think) but it provides a 3D space station which you can explore and
>chat with others. Worlds Inc. (formerly KA Worlds) is a development
>partner of ours but I am not working with them on this specific project
>so you will have to address any questions to their mailing lists.

>The URL for Worlds Inc. is http://www.kaworlds.com

Somehow we got off on the subject of WorldsAway, and nobody responded to
Eric Olinger's invitation to visit Worlds(tm)Chat. I went out and had a
look, and was impressed. The look/feel is basically DOOM without a
trigger (perhpas they should add a "battle zone" for when you get tired
of conversation, or can't settle an argument any other way...). Very
responsive (on a '486/66). I suspect it uses very little band-width,
since there were folks scurrying all over the place who were connected
by modem. The entire database of avatars and rooms/portals resides in
the client app, so only movement/orientation of avatars and conversation
gets transmitted.

I can think of all sorts of fun and useful features to add in future
revs. But for a first cut at it, this is impressive.

Now who's going to be the first elitist ;>) SGI user to scoff at this
low-end toy?

McQ

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[email protected] Dennis McQuerry