{"id":95,"date":"2006-09-23T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.colliertech.org\/cj\/?p=95"},"modified":"2006-09-23T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T22:34:10","slug":"virtual-reality-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Reality software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syndic8.com\/weblog\/\">Jeff B.<\/a>, have been caught up in the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\">Second Life<\/a>.  I haven&#8217;t spent a lot of time logged in to their official client, though.  I created a user on their web form and verified that it does, in fact, work on my mac laptop.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I registered a user was so that I could play around with the <i>un<\/i>-official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libsecondlife.org\/\">libsecondlife<\/a>.  I&#8217;m attempting to make a graphical front-end for the VR system using<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mono-project.com\/GtkGLAreaSharp\">gtkglarea-sharp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first steps was to create a tool to slurp in the .prims xml files which are used to describe 3d objects in the game.  I&#8217;ve started a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libsecondlife.org\/protocol\/index.php\/Libprims\">wiki page<\/a> for it on the libsecondlife wiki.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been intending to play with ODE for a while now, and it&#8217;s probably pretty stable and otherwise mature.  So perhaps it&#8217;s time to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/odedotnet.sourceforge.net\/index.php\/Main_Page\">ODE.Net<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mono-project.com\/Tao\">Tao.Ode<\/a>.  The idea of physics engines sort of overwhelms me, though.  Maybe I should get <a href=\"http:\/\/qaein.livejournal.com\/\">Chris<\/a> to help me with it.  He&#8217;s taking a Java class this quarter, so he should be pretty familiar with the concepts of object-oriented langues on virtual machines here soon.<\/p>\n<p>What do you say, Chris?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=cjamescollier\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, like Jeff B., have been caught up in the wake of Second Life. I haven&#8217;t spent a lot of time logged in to their official client, though. I created a user on their web form and verified that it does, in fact, work on my mac laptop. The reason I registered a user was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,38,79,90,62,21,39,91,47,7,102,78,113,65,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d","category-c","category-free-software","category-gpl","category-gtk","category-gtkglarea-sharp","category-java","category-libsl","category-linux","category-mono","category-open-source","category-second-life","category-social-networking","category-tao","category-wiki"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YDIB-1x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}