{"id":29,"date":"2007-01-08T15:45:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T15:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/second-life-client-open-sourced\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T15:45:32","slug":"second_life_client_open_sourced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/second_life_client_open_sourced\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Life Client Open Sourced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my fourth blog post of the day, Linden Labs has Open Sourced the client for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondlife.com\">Second Life<\/a> in a blog post entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.secondlife.com\/2007\/01\/08\/embracing-the-inevitable\/\">Embracing the Inevitable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Linden Labs always said that Open Sourcing the code was part of the long term plan, I remember an interview on LUGRadio a while back. It&#039;s a shame it&#039;s only the client and not the server-side code, but they say they are staying open minded about that. One step at a time.<\/p>\n<p>My dream (as I <a href=\"http:\/\/hippygeek.livejournal.com\/48549.html\">described in March<\/a>) would be a distributed system where anyone could set up their own server. It would use web standards and would just be like a collection of 3D web pages in X3D. It might be difficult to attain the same kind of user experience you get with Second Life, but it would be a great extension of the web.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I&#039;ve started a <a href=\"http:\/\/hippygeek.co.uk\/wiki\/3D_Web\">wiki page<\/a> posing the question &#8220;What would be required to create a 3D web with a similar user experience to that of online virtual worlds like Second Life?&#8221;. You can log in with username:iwontspam password:ipromise or start a new account. I&#039;d value input.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my fourth blog post of the day, Linden Labs has Open Sourced the client for Second Life in a blog post entitled Embracing the Inevitable. Linden Labs always said that Open Sourcing the code was part of the long term plan, I remember an interview on LUGRadio a while back. It&#039;s a shame it&#039;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/second_life_client_open_sourced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second Life Client Open Sourced<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}