Opensimulator + Firestormviewer + Namecoin = Internet 2.0 ?
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 5:22 pm
Hi there,
I have a new interesting usage case / project for Namecoin:
A complete p2p user generated 3D World with inworld economics running Out-of-the-Box on a portable Linux system - Similar what Chrome OS is doing but everything 3D with an Avatar.
I dont know how much people know about Secondlife. Its a big project from Lindenlabs (http://secondlife.com) with a full user generated 3D world and inworld economics. Inworld the currency Lindendollar is used, which can be spent and earned with some sort of business, like selling clothes, avatar models, furniture and scripts.
Secondlife is a great system to browse information in 3D - some people are saying this would be the new Internet one day. The problem is: it is centralized.
Luckily they are good and working Open Source efforts for the server software called "OpenSimulator" (http://opensimulator.org) and the Viewer "Firestorm" (http://firestormviewer.org) to decentralize the idea behind SecondLife. So-called Grids (Running OpenSimulator Instance on a specific user machine) can be connected one to each other to a Hypergrid allowing people to leave their own SIM and visiting foreign SIMs on other machines.
Inworld you can easily watch websites for example (Webkit)
Problems:
- Missing decentralized currency (at the moment OMC is used from Virwox (http://virwox.com)
- Missing decentralized authentification model (you need a server preinstalled with OpenSimulator including registration)
- Hypergrids needs to know each other over Domainnames / IP Adresses
Solution:
- Namecoin
Namecoin could solve all these 3 Problems together providing a decentralized currency inworld independent from OMC oder Lindendollar. Namecoin could solve the authentification problems and .bit Project could help to provide the whole system with decentralized domains.
The idea behind it would be to combine all these pieces together in a Linux Distribution like Manjaro Linux, which is based on Archlinux (http://manjaro.org/ ) and making a Ready-To-Go decentralized Operating System to run and use a growing user generated and free 3D World like the WWW which is used today with a browser like Firefox. "Internet 3D" instead 2D.
Payment solutions have been already discussed and experimental implemented in OpenSimulator.
BTW: People are paying in OpenSimulator always - it would be easy to integrate a ton of private exchanges in OpenSimulator. The only thing would be a trust to the owner of an exchange company but this could be solved as well if company data and history is available like bitstamp.net is doing it already. An idea would be to integrate in this world a open exchange system similar to Ripple. Everything is a matter of trust.
References:
Bitcoin / Paypal Payment Module for OpenSimulator:
https://github.com/edmundedgar/Mod-FreeMoney
Bitcoin Integration Live Discussion in OpenSimulator at Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrEIbUHDu4o
OpenSimulator at Youtube (everything user generated):
Machinima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPS5gucm7AM
Fantasy World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMp97SNIpU
Interactive Space Ship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB6xwBX ... 6490CC9C0B
OpenSimulator Materials Test 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytq7GPXCrqE
OpenSimulator Materials Test 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoIDn7hbdmQ
Modelling for OpenSimulator in Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRHpIUA3zVQ
I am interested in your thoughts and to this idea and technical possibilities to build such a system with the help of Namecoin technology.
Thank you!
I have a new interesting usage case / project for Namecoin:
A complete p2p user generated 3D World with inworld economics running Out-of-the-Box on a portable Linux system - Similar what Chrome OS is doing but everything 3D with an Avatar.
I dont know how much people know about Secondlife. Its a big project from Lindenlabs (http://secondlife.com) with a full user generated 3D world and inworld economics. Inworld the currency Lindendollar is used, which can be spent and earned with some sort of business, like selling clothes, avatar models, furniture and scripts.
Secondlife is a great system to browse information in 3D - some people are saying this would be the new Internet one day. The problem is: it is centralized.
Luckily they are good and working Open Source efforts for the server software called "OpenSimulator" (http://opensimulator.org) and the Viewer "Firestorm" (http://firestormviewer.org) to decentralize the idea behind SecondLife. So-called Grids (Running OpenSimulator Instance on a specific user machine) can be connected one to each other to a Hypergrid allowing people to leave their own SIM and visiting foreign SIMs on other machines.
Inworld you can easily watch websites for example (Webkit)
Problems:
- Missing decentralized currency (at the moment OMC is used from Virwox (http://virwox.com)
- Missing decentralized authentification model (you need a server preinstalled with OpenSimulator including registration)
- Hypergrids needs to know each other over Domainnames / IP Adresses
Solution:
- Namecoin
Namecoin could solve all these 3 Problems together providing a decentralized currency inworld independent from OMC oder Lindendollar. Namecoin could solve the authentification problems and .bit Project could help to provide the whole system with decentralized domains.
The idea behind it would be to combine all these pieces together in a Linux Distribution like Manjaro Linux, which is based on Archlinux (http://manjaro.org/ ) and making a Ready-To-Go decentralized Operating System to run and use a growing user generated and free 3D World like the WWW which is used today with a browser like Firefox. "Internet 3D" instead 2D.
Payment solutions have been already discussed and experimental implemented in OpenSimulator.
BTW: People are paying in OpenSimulator always - it would be easy to integrate a ton of private exchanges in OpenSimulator. The only thing would be a trust to the owner of an exchange company but this could be solved as well if company data and history is available like bitstamp.net is doing it already. An idea would be to integrate in this world a open exchange system similar to Ripple. Everything is a matter of trust.
References:
Bitcoin / Paypal Payment Module for OpenSimulator:
https://github.com/edmundedgar/Mod-FreeMoney
Bitcoin Integration Live Discussion in OpenSimulator at Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrEIbUHDu4o
OpenSimulator at Youtube (everything user generated):
Machinima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPS5gucm7AM
Fantasy World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMp97SNIpU
Interactive Space Ship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB6xwBX ... 6490CC9C0B
OpenSimulator Materials Test 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytq7GPXCrqE
OpenSimulator Materials Test 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoIDn7hbdmQ
Modelling for OpenSimulator in Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRHpIUA3zVQ
I am interested in your thoughts and to this idea and technical possibilities to build such a system with the help of Namecoin technology.
Thank you!