By Wagner James Au
What you're looking at in the screen captures here and below the fold represents a small but significant milestone in open source metaverse technology.? If in the future, Orcs in a fantasy MMORPG are able to IM their friends flying starships in a sci-fi MMO, this may be remembered as one of the innovations which helped point the way.? It's called the Parallel Selves Message Bridge, a new addition to the code forge of OpenSimulator, the Apache for virtual worlds project featured on OStatic last year.? The Bridge makes it possible for users within one OpenSim world to send IMs to users currently logged into another Second Life-compatible world.? (OpenSim is reverse engineered from SL's viewer source code.)?
