Electric Sheep Contribute to Ogoglio Project

Trevor F. Smith, founder of The Ogoglio Project and Transmutable, blogged last week that The Electric Sheep Company's Matt Kimmel had made his first contribution to the open-source project for virtual worlds, "a way to plug in new message codecs and wire protocols for world events." There's no immediate announcement for projects using the technology, though, ESC COO Giff Constable told Virtual Worlds News, "just R&D experimentation as we evaluate metaverse technologies for ourselves and clients, and the best way to do so is to get hands on."

Smith, busy at work on the recent release of Tomorrow Space, said he hasn't been particularly involved with the Sheep's work in Ogoglio, only answering the occasional question as the company has proceeded just fine on its own. He hopes, though, that the Sheep's participation  "will encourage the other major developers to come out of the closet with their internal Ogoglio projects.  It's past time that we as an industry acknowledge that a common web based platform for 3D spaces will do the entire industry a world of good.  I know that many of your readers have mad chops building these technologies and I encourage them to join the party if for no other reason than to save the world from my code and art!"

As for the Electric Sheep Company, Constable looks at its work in Ogoglio as just one among many projects.

"While ESC is building out some big private virtual worlds, we are also very focused on the intersection of Web-based casual games, social networking, and virtual world capabilities," Constable explained. "Our R&D team built a simple demo of a Web-based social/game space that uses Ogoglio on the back end and Flash/Papervision on the front end, and we gave some of Ogoglio coding we did as part of that effort back to the community. We think the Ogoglio project is extremely interesting, but we have also been examining ElectroServer, SmartFox, Wonderland, and numerous other back-end technologies."

Comments

[Giff Constable]

I didn't mean to imply that there are no immediate uses for the technology. :)

I also had two typos in my quote -- apologies to readers -- one being Wonderland with a "u"

[Joey Seiler]

Note: Edited to reflect Giff's comment. I was wondering about Wunderland.