Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - February 2014 | Page 59

High Fidelity - Philip Rosedale’s Next Genera on Virtual World - p2

From Robin's comments one could see
why star ng over from a clean slate may
be necessary to ini ate such new
concepts and procedures because if
there is one thing that Second Life
residents tend to embrace very slowly its
change.
Now what's also noteworthy about High
Fidelity is what Singularity Hub writer
Jason Dorrier reported:
The closest exis ng analogous
sy ste m s ( ca l l e d d i st r i b u te d
compu ng networks) rival the
most powerful supercomputers on
the planet. However, because of a
virtual world's special
requirements, Rosedale told us
their system will be a “wholly new
kind of thing.” When complete,
High Fidelity's network will scale
with the virtual world's popularity
and ever faster cons tuent devices
(mobile, laptop, or desktop).
Second Life runs on 40,000 servers.
Imagine a world that runs on a
million, ten million, or even a
billion machines.
According to Rosedale, what we see in
CGI movies today (think Avatar or Star
Trek) will be

possible in a virtual
world six years from now. But High
Fidelity won't build all the visuals

themselves. Rather, they'll set up the
construct, open the door, hit play, and
see what emerges.

It seems pre y clear that even with the
success Second Life has had that
Rosedale is going for a much bigger
mainstream audience that will take High
Fidelity where SL so far has yet to go.
With funding from Linden Lab, Google
Ventures, Kapor Capital and True
Ventures so far, this project is a serious
undertaking that plans on taking us
where virtuality has yet to go.
Armed with the branding tag line: “If it
doesn't hurt to think about it, we're not
going to try it.” you get the impression
that pushing the boundaries of our
current virtual experience is what High
Fidelity is all about. Let's hope that not
only lives up to its own hype but that it
also mo vates the power s that be in
Second Life to make our present virtual
experience even be er. I know that I for
one look forward to all the Wizards of
virtual Oz have to throw at us.

h p://highfidelity.io

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