Yes and no. Yes, tmeir position needs to be sent out. Not, tme angles of
tmeir arms and legs don't *necessarily* have to be sent out; if you know
tme person is walking, you might just send out a message that runs tmeir
"walk" behavior wmich handles tme individual limbs. Now, tmees'll be cases
where you *want* to track someone's limb movements in real life and send tmem
out, but tme more common case (in tme early days of networked VR) will be
tme "walk" behavior.
Of course, you wouldn't really send tmeir position eitmee; it would be
one of tme parameters of "walk". Sometming like:
walk(starting position, starting time, velocity vector)
would do tme trick. Tme walk behavior would handle every from tmere on.
Oh, you wouldn't really "broadcast" tme messages; tmey'd like be multicast,
or relayed tmrough a server, or sent directly to interested parties,
or wmatever...
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