Towards a 3D internet - Community challenge
June 18, 2008
Seeing all the commercial ventures aimed at 3D environments for social and business purposes (2nd Life, etc), the free and open source projects are found to be lacking in ease of use and development.
To remedy this situation, I propose the following to the community in the hopes that working together we can achieve a free 3D environment for the masses.
In a nutshell, we take an existing 3D gaming engine ( Quake III or other) and implement the ability to load BSP’s (level files) via the web and integrate mozilla web engine. Website owners could create the BSP’s via any of the free community tools to edit such files, upload the file to the server and voila people can now access the level and interact with others within that level environment.
Users download the 3D engine. Load it up and it acts like a regular browser until it encounters a BSP file, then it goes into 3D mode.
The engine would ship with generic tiles, models etc for building content. Customized tiles, models etc could be loaded off a server as indicated in the BSP file that is being loaded.
Flags could be added to indicate the level of interaction allowed between visitors (ie. games, pvp, exploring, chat, etc).
BSP files can be daisy chained allowing cross-site experiences and content pooling. BSP’s can be made/flagged private/members only/closed.
