One small step for avatars....... one giant leap for programmers

So its three ruth avatars in an open space, so what you may say?

The fact that the avatars are Layla Linden and Tess Linden with Zha Ewry may cause a little stir of interest - ah hang on this isn't SL is it?

No its not its IBMs opensim and the avatars just successfully teleported from SecondLife to the open sim grid.

All were ruthed as at the moment inventory cannot cross worlds but the user can Zha says on his blog:

'All three Avatars had been logged on via the Agent Domain in the Linden Lab Aditi test grid. The Agent Domain took a “place_avatar” request from the client, and issued a “rez_avatar” request to the OpenSim, which handed the Agent Domain the necessary details so it could relay it to the client, and permit a login. We’re all Ruth, because we’re not yet syncing the agents with openSim inventory yet. That’s just a small matter of programming… (Well, that’s what we programmers always say.) We have no inventory, and we’re stuck on the single region. But.. It’s a very nice first step.'

'For those wondering about the implications of this work in terms of how Second Life is going to evolve? I’m certainly not the person to speak to about such things. Linden Lab runs Second Life, and they are the only people who can speak to their plans. I will point out, that this is a very first step, along a fairly long path that’s been discussed repeatedly by Linden and participants in the Second Life Architecture Working Group. There are a large number of steps from simple hacked code, to anything resembling a set of inter operating worlds. Discussion and proposals on how to manage trust, content protection (Bounded by technical reality) and similar issues, are part of the ongoing discussions.'

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