Roadmap

This is the roadmap and brainstorm for development

Assigned Tasks

• B scripter GUI (improvements to interface)
• B/E V8 closures (fix storage of functions in v8 to save closure as well as function text)
• E/J CDN support for music (serve music files as well as meshes)

Ideas

Deployment

• Backups of OH data

Demo World

• Repository for world-specific scripts (avatar script, anything we expect to be in there by default).
• Build a nice demo scene, large enough to require some exploration to see it all.
• Scripts for building into package (i.e. all the data required to support Sirikata URIs
• Get a few good, tested avatars on the CDN and get the default demo avatar to use these simple animations well

System Features

• Space
  • Physics improvements -- get avatars on terrain working well
  • Generate collision event messages for objects, maybe based on subscription request

• CDN
  • Expose progressive meshes

• OH
  • Progressive mesh loading
  • Improve Emerson storage -- make it much easier to interface and get a persistent object
  • Improve object manipulation interface (could be in deployment specific code, i.e. under Demo World)
  • Object migration between OHs
  • Fix closures/provide full snapshotting (timers/register handlers/etc)
  • libmesh filters should not strip animations (eg. check if joints before collapsing two vertices).
  • Playing multiple animations at once (blend/interpolation)
  • Exposing physics collisions to Emerson.
  • Fix Gui isolation
  • Better OH connection failure handling
  • Reduce Emerson memory usage

Documentation

• Storage tutorial
• Sandbox tutorial
• Getting started with demo, maybe just update getting started for users since a lot of steps can be avoided when someone provides the configuration for you.
• Simple demo videos showing how to join and interact with the world/other users.

Long-term Goals & Research

• Add audio support (purely OH-based to support, e.g. simple sound effects and local voice chat, then consider adding mixing support to the space server).
• Load balancing objects across object hosts
• Distributed physics -- extend physics to work with objects including boundaries
• Mesh/object aggregation
• Multicast
• New transport abstractions targeted at VWs (e.g. last reliable)