So You Want To Login To High Fidelity?

High Fidelity is Philip Rosedale’s new virtual world project. This is currently in the very early stages of Alpha but you can signup to that Alpha from the main webpage. However you won’t be able to login to High Fidelity or see any of its features.

However it does seem as if it is possible to login to High Fidelity. There are clues on how to do this, starting from the jobs page. There a challenge is laid down to people who may want to do paid work for High Fidelity:

“We are seeing lots of great applicants! If you’d like to get our attention and also have more fun than sitting in an interview, do the following:

Checkout our code on GitHub, build the Interface client, and see if you can login to Hifi. Then, take a look at Worklist and see if there’s a job you can do to show us your work skills.”

Obviously this isn’t going to be for the faint hearted, or at this moment in time, Windows users. The GitHub link provides further information on the ingredients for building an interface for you to login to High Fidelity. The ingredients include CMake, building in XCode, QT5.1 and OSX or Ubuntu. High Fidelity has so far been successfully built to run on OSX 10.8, Ubuntu and some other modern Linux distributions

There are plans for a Windows distribution in the future but that is not currently in the development phase. As I said at the start, High Fidelity is in the very early stages of Alpha.

However there is another interesting aspect to this, it looks like it is possible to run your own Virtual World. Hurrah I hear some of you say … some of you? Surely someone? However once more this isn’t currently at the straight forward phase and you’ll need all of the skills required to build the interface and more:

“In order to set up your own virtual world, you need to set up and run your own local “domain”. At a minimum, you must run a domain-server, voxel-server, audio-mixer, and avatar-mixer to have a working virtual world. The domain server gives three different types of assignments to the assignment-client: audio-mixer, avatar-mixer and voxel server.”

For those who have the required skills, the opportunity knocks to get an early look at the early Alpha of High Fidelity, which may of course looking nothing at all like High Fidelity when it comes out of Alpha.

This is obviously far from suitable for people who don’t have the required skills or operating systems, patience will be required there but this does mean the project is further along than many may have thought.

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