Croquet 2 Play

In Second Life, there’s BlogHUD with is really cool and you can coax the built-in Firefox engine used in the help system to let you navigate the web, but with Croquet Collaborative, I can right now today use Firefox directly to post to this blog. It’s not surprisingly slower and some keys like backspace and arrow(all) don’t seem to work right under OS/X but still it’s fun to play with!

Update: I actually started blogging in world back in 2003 - the first I am aware of.

See Griotvision video

I’ll be doing a series of posts on Croquet Collaborative soon but this Subsystem Overview may be helpful.

A new release of the SDK is on the horizon. It appears that the Croquet Consortium is now officially the focal point, replacing the old Open Croquet site Viewpoints Research had. Viewpoints is busy reinventing programming but there’s a build based on the new SDK release which anyone can download and play with at Croquet Collaborative. It’s not Second Life(yet) but you don’t have to be a programmer to use it.