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posted by Editor on Tuesday October 09, @06:08PM
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DaliWorld lets users run a distributed virtual aquarium on their desktop. Although the idea of a computer "fish tanks" is hardly new (they have existed for a long time as screen savers, and have been implemented as more sophisticated VR worlds), DaliWorld pushes the idea further by connecting each user's "tank" to others via the web, resulting in a virtual ocean where fish can swim freely from one computer to the next. Each user's computer calculates the behavior of the digital fish it's displaying, but then those fish can float off to another machine. The fish are implemented as autonomous agents that have the ability to sense each other, react to external events and learn from past experiences how to adapt to current situations. They make their own decisions about where to swim, when to rest, how to evade predators, what prey to devour, who to mate with, etc. Since each fish is clearly identified as being owned by a particular user, participants can tell where the fish they see on their screen came from. Here are screenshots of the fish, and the client program can be downloaded here.
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What on God's green earth does this have to do with searching for the post-PC interface?
The category to file this under instead is: "Neat Trick, So What?"
At the same time, however... it is a neat trick.
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by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 10, @02:41AM EST (#2)
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...it does faintly remind me of the Snow Crash metaverse concept where entities from other distributed networked computers show up on my screen (and vice versa). Perhaps that's why the editor found it potentially relevant?
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