The Open Source Metaverse Project (OSMP) was a multi-participant shared virtual world online platform. This platform was

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and

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software co-founded in 2004 by Hugh Perkins and Jorge Lima. OSMP is loosely modeled on the

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borrowing ideas from existing worlds such as

Second Life ''Second Life'' is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user created content within a multi player online virtual world. Developed and owned by the San Fra ...

Active Worlds Active Worlds is an online virtual world, developed by ActiveWorlds Inc., a company based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and launched on June 28, 1995. Users assign themselves a name, log into the Active Worlds universe, and explore 3D virtual wo ...

, and

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. This project aims to produce an open-source engine for the creation of streamed 3D worlds, also making it possible to interconnect existing worlds into a single open, standards-based

Metaverse In science fiction, the "metaverse" is a hypothetical iteration of the Internet as a single, universal, and immersive virtual world that is facilitated by the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets. In colloquial usage, ...

. In 2005,

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conducted a reachout campaign to the art and animation community, asking for course proposals about the nature of

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and its use in

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and interactive techniques. OSMP was contacted by Dr. John Fujii as part of this initiative, in order to organize a collaborative online meeting space for SIGGRAPH 2005 members. As of 2008, the project was no longer active. Most developers shifted focus to development of open-source software compatible with Second Life such as

OpenSimulator OpenSimulator is an open-source server platform originally launched in 2007 for hosting virtual worlds and metaverse environments. It is largely compatible with the virtual world ''Second Life'' but full compatibility is not a design goal. Fe ...

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Official websiteOSMP WikiOSMP forums

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Osmp 2004 software Free software Virtual world communities Lua (programming language)-scriptable software

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