The Great Go Between
July 31, 2008One of the things everyone keeps harping about (rightfully) is that interoperability of virtual worlds is going to be key moving forward, and something second life needs to be geared for in order to maintain success in the future.
Today LL kicked off their Open Grid Public Beta program to help virtual world developers get their virtual worlds interoperate with SL. At the moment, it’s teleport and login interoperability only, no assets or cash money will be able to make the quantum leap.
It’s based on the Open Grid Protocol, which, I guess if I were a virtual world developer, I’d know what the technical details meant. Or maybe if I just had an IQ north of 32.
It’s definitely interesting times, and the prospect of world hopping is very cool. Obviously for SL residents, the prospect of hopping in as a ruth somewhere will be less appealing than it might, and I suspect the problem of inventory, attachments, and money transferring over won’t be the easiest of issues to iron out, but it’ll happen eventually. There’s really no choice. Right now it’s a lot like saying we can only email other people using the same ISP, or call people on the same cell carrier. Fortunately, people are working on changing all that.
