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Alan Kay has been thinking & talking [1] about a game engine based web for more than 20 years called Croquet and they are just now launching into the open WebXR

Alan Kay has been thinking & talking [1] about a game engine based web for more than 20 years called Croquet and they are just now launching into the open WebXR world because, like James Cameron waiting decades for the film tech to catch up with his vision of Avatar, the delivery of open 3D Immersive experience is becoming possible. And that will affect all the old underlying design assumptions for things like the Dynabook required by real world physical constraints. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQTeWJNkylI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQTeWJNkylI [2] https://www.croquet.io https://www.croquet.io

still_grokking 4y ago
First I thought this would be super cool. But than I read "Metaverse" on the front page. So it's something like Web3, I guess.
- jimmySixDOF 4y ago
  More Web3D than Web3. They are building an Immersive PaaS and you can do with it what you want. Please don't let crypto own that word but maybe that ship has sailed for now.
  - still_grokking 4y ago
    The point is: I'm quite skeptical about this new Second Life fad. It's a little bit off-putting when someone jumps on the "Metaverse" train. But OK, maybe I should have a second look despite this marketing stunt.
dragonwriter 4y ago
The Smalltalk based OpenCroquet was interesting. This might be too, but if so it is hidden well under the buzzword bingo marketing.
morphle 4y ago
There is much better documentation on Croquet [2] and its many forks (Open Cobalt, Teleplace, OpenQwaq, 3DICC) and I have many more video demonstrations of what this massively scalable collaboration environment and virtual unlimited desktop GUI could do [1]. It is still alive and being worked on. You can contact us and get involved [3] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM [2] https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?hl=nl&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=alan+kay+croquet&btnG= https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?hl=nl&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=alan+... [3] morphle at ziggo dot nl
koolala 4y ago
My hope is the engine Godot could fill this role as well. It is lower level but its also nice its a full engine designed for general game usecases.

still_grokking 4y ago

First I thought this would be super cool. But than I read "Metaverse" on the front page. So it's something like Web3, I guess.

jimmySixDOF 4y ago
More Web3D than Web3. They are building an Immersive PaaS and you can do with it what you want. Please don't let crypto own that word but maybe that ship has sailed for now.
- still_grokking 4y ago
  The point is: I'm quite skeptical about this new Second Life fad. It's a little bit off-putting when someone jumps on the "Metaverse" train. But OK, maybe I should have a second look despite this marketing stunt.

dragonwriter 4y ago

The Smalltalk based OpenCroquet was interesting. This might be too, but if so it is hidden well under the buzzword bingo marketing.

morphle 4y ago

There is much better documentation on Croquet [2] and its many forks (Open Cobalt, Teleplace, OpenQwaq, 3DICC) and I have many more video demonstrations of what this massively scalable collaboration environment and virtual unlimited desktop GUI could do [1]. It is still alive and being worked on. You can contact us and get involved [3] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM [2] https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?hl=nl&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=alan+kay+croquet&btnG= https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?hl=nl&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=alan+... [3] morphle at ziggo dot nl

koolala 4y ago

My hope is the engine Godot could fill this role as well. It is lower level but its also nice its a full engine designed for general game usecases.