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Comment There's a better way to do this (Score 1) 28

Instead of prompt-building a world, use Second Life as the modeler.

It has a camera, geometry, and metadata to model off of, and tons of source world already built.
The hard parts; hosting, navigation, scripting, network, and money are already implemented.
Best, there's an experienced user community that gets it, and is willing to pay for it.

Comment Re:Who does this? (Score 1) 89

They did that at Otellini's Intel in Chandler AZ when I was there around 2009 or so.

The round foam couches and glass cubes, 70's colors, and a new age relaxation room with two massage chairs (really).
A game room with a big flat panel on the wall hooked up to a Wii as a bro detector, mostly used by the sales weasels. It always smelled in there.

Sitting in the middle of the floor, with no walls, was this massive Cisco teleconferencing system built into a curved wood veneer conference table with multiple 1080p video projectors and cameras. Had its own fiber line. 'Like being there' they said. The demo broke and I never saw it used after. But free candy bars in baskets and drinks in the fridge!

The 'project' took up an entire floor. (They mercifully kept the Intel OCC bike close, but downstairs.)

Intel is always playing copy-to-catch-up, and I think this was their attempt at being a Google.
By the time it all got thrown in the dumpster out back, I was gone.

Comment it's the complexity, stupid (Score 5, Insightful) 30

Speaking as an old graybeard UI guy.... we have just come up with more and more complex solutions to the same old internet "one weird trick" of putting your information on someone else's computer.

Yeah, I remember "Server Side Rendering"... we called Java Servlets or JSPs or PHP or ASP. There were clear divisions of labors and boundaries were respected.

Even when we had to go to make everything feel like an app, at least RESTful stuff still had those boundaries.

Now that everyone needs the same code running front and back, and JS (I'm not a hater of JS by any means but still) stuff like this is bound to have happened.

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