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another alternative: OpenVRMLanother alternative: OpenVRMLPosted Mar 29, 2008 4:39 UTC (Sat) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599)Parent article: Toward a free metaverse I'll just mention yet another alternative, OpenVRML (a.k.a. "libvrml97" in past years). It's not in quite the same space in that it doesn't explicitly address the networked multiuser aspect, but there were a number of projects a decade back that showed it was possible to build such things around VRML if you really want to. More realistically, it's a nice environment for standalone worlds and models, including interactive effects (Java and JavaScript scripting) and various forms of multimedia. Also, VRML is a completely open standard. I haven't kept up enough with Second Life and the others to be able to say whether it's worth the effort at this point in time to learn VRML, but if you already know a bit about it or have an existing tool that can export to it, it might be worthwhile. And OpenVRML is LGPL'd and still under active development, albeit mostly by one person (who has an unfortunate love of the bleeding edge as far as build-dependencies go, sigh). I believe FreeWRL and a handful of X3D ("VRML 3.0") projects are also still being developed, though I haven't checked lately. Greg
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