The future direction is set that will enable avatars to be transported to different virtual worlds managed by 3rd parties.
This move to virtual-world interoperability is now being tested between Second Life and other independent virtual worlds, thanks to the launch of Linden Lab's Open Grid Beta, a program designed for developers to test new functionality.
The beta program will allow avatars powered by users to move between Second Life and other non-Linden Lab clouds.
We are still early in the game. The point of the beta is to give the rest of the development community the chance to try the protocols themselves," says Joe Miller, Linden Lab's vice president of platform and development. More than 200 users have signed up for the beta program, and currently 15 worlds have been connected.
