Back in July, Toysoldier Thor blogged about virtual landmarks. The basic idea here is that your landmarks can follow you, the same as a domain name follows people and companies around. Toysoldier came up with this idea because he was in a position whereby he needed to move the location of his art gallery, this move meant that all the landmarks out in the wild, would become redundant. People who used those landmarks, would not land at Toysoldier’s new store, they’d arrive in the sim location where the store used to be.
Toysoldier created a Jira, which can still be read, on the issue. However it should also be noted that Ann OToole created an earlier Jira, back in 2009, on similar lines. Toysoldier links to this in his proposal. The proposals are slightly different but they address the same core problem, other people may have created Jira’s or proposals too. However Toysoldier’s proposal gained traction via a forum post on the official forums and it was discussed at the simulator user group meeting on 3rd August, in attendance there was Cheesey Linden ….. seriously!
On the 7th September, Toysolider reported in another forum thread:
LL has finished the phase of investigating the idea of VLMs and they have determined that VLMs are feasible enough to warrant moving it to the next phase of determining DEVELOPMENT PRIORITY !!
I asked if this is good news and Cheesey said “yes – that is progress”.
After the meeting I did some further investigation and asked a Linden if he/she seriously saw VLMs having a legit hope or am I wasting time pushing this idea. I was told that he/she was surprised how much traction the VLMs got internally. The LL techs grasped the concept and value very quickly and that the VLM solution could potentially help LL with several other functions (especially the centralized VLM-MS service).
See, Cheesey was involved! However since then, there has been little word on progress, until an independent development was announced by Darrius Gothly yesterday, whereby Darrius has come up with his own solution to address the issue.
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