Tuesday, November 27, 2007

email TO kaneva about 3d + webcam concept

I believe you should make it a priority to offer webcam streaming capable on each avatar that walks around.

I would believe a streaming website would love to partner with you.

Even if your first cut, show a video chat room in the panel on the right, it would be a huge step, and simple to do.

Why do you not partner with a site like www.stickam.com

I wish you the best, but I see no reason, this could not be offered.

You simply allow 8 people in a room to stream their webcam. You have a panel on the right. Someone could even hack this together in minutes. If you queried an active list of users in a room, and matched that with active users on stickam, you could walk into a room, and it would also be like walking into a video chat room.

The next step would require more than a few minutes hack. It would be to allow avatars to display their webcam as they walk around a room. This would simply require calculating audio levels of each video user, per location in 3d, it would be very simple to calculate and adjust audio streams.