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title: "Herbal3D: Virtual World Viewer Infrastructure"
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> "What brings you here, my child?"
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> The scamp points and asks, "What is that?"
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> "Ah. Curiosity. The best reason."
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Herbal3d is an umbrella project for the building of a virtual world
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and augmented reality viewer.
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The viewer is usable with different virtual
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world and augmented reality systems.
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That is, the building of the one viewer to rule them all.
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Well, not "rule" them. But certainly display the 3d world represented
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by the virtual world simulation and/or the augmented reality system.
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The dream is to have a 3d viewer that can display avatars from
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different virtual world systems in the same view or display the data
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from multiple augmented reality systems in the same view.
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`Basil` is the viewer portion of this project.
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It simply displays 3D entities and UI features as instructed and
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it handles all device dependent considerations.
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Basil can be used to view virtual worlds, games, or augmented reality.
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The display may be a computer screen, a tablet, head mounted goggles, or
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a heads up display.
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An instance of `Basil` talks to multiple `SpaceServers` which act as
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the intermediaries between the `Basil` renderer and the virual world
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or augmented reality system. `Basil` handles the problem of display
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of the 3d objects while not having any "world" logic embedded in it.
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The `SpaceServers` present to Basil the objects to display in space.
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Currently, this umbrella project contains the projects:
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[BasilJS]: a browser based version of `Basil`;
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[BasilG]: a [Godot] based application that implements `Basil`;
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[RaguOS]: a `SpaceServer` for [OpenSimulator] using region modules;
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[Espazote]: a `SpaceServer` for the [Project Athena] (open source of [High Fidelity])
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News items on progress and releases are listed in the sidebar.
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Other places to go from here:
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* [Architectural Overview]
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* [News]
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* [Basil Protocol Definition]
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* [Basil Issues]
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* [Basil Sources]
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## Some Licensing Philosophy
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This project started as the personal project of [Robert Adams].
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I believe that business and innovation is advanced by common infrastructures.
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One real world expression of this is the public road system.
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The nation could have independently owned roads with tolls.
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In this world, each owner supports their piece of road.
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Imagine such a road system.
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Different pieces of road would conform to different design standards.
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Toll collection system would be different with different payment and membership
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requirements.
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Traveling any distance would require constantly stopping and paying and
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navigating different lane sizes and pavement qualities.
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Some destinations just wouldn't have roads.
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But if an entity creates a common infrastructure of uniform roads, travel
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and shipment becomes easy. The roads still aren't free (taxes through
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a government or a single company) but now commerce and mobility explodes.
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My assertion is that overall prosperity is greater when there are many
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uses and businesses built upon the common infrastructure vs the world
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where there are businesses making money off creating the infrastructure.
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Some economists probably have opinions here.
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I see the Herbal System as a common infrastructure that enables
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shared and extensible viewing of images in the real and virtual worlds.
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The overall ecosystem will be larger, more innovative, and more
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prosperous if this common infrastructure is created and made available
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without barriers.
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This philosophy means the sources will be "open source" licensed with
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some core technologies licensed with GPLv3 so the feature is always
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available and in the open.
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Some of the modules could have instances
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created for specific uses and, since the glue between components is
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the protocols, these instances could be proprietary.
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Additionally, some reference designs of certain modules could
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have a more flexible license ([BSD License], [Apache License], [MIT License], ...)
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but, in general, the core development should happen in a larger,
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public community.
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## Herbal Names
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Just for fun, the various components have herbal names.
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This started with the Basil Viewer and
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spilled over into [Pesto] and [Ragu].
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Green, leafy herbs are good for you and taste good too.
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## Legal Stuff
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This document is covered by [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International].
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Since every idea in the world is covered by a patent somewhere, I make
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no claims as to the ownership or availability of any design or concept
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described above.
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[OpenSimulator]: http://opensimulator.org/
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[BasilJS]: https://github.com/Herbal3d/basil/tree/master/Basiljs
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[BasilG]: https://github.com/Herbal3d/basil/tree/master/Basilg
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[Loc-Loc]: https://herbal3d.github.io/loc-loc/
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[RaguOS]: https://herbal3d.github.io/ragu/
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[Ragu]: https://herbal3d.github.io/ragu/
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[Espazote]: https://herbal3d.github.io/espazote/
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[Project Athena]: https://projectathena.io/
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[High Fidelity]: https://www.highfidelity.com/
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[Architectural Overview]: https://herbal3d.github.io/architecture/Overview.html
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[News]: https://herbal3d.github.io/News.html
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[Basil Issues]: https://github.com/Herbal3d/basil/issues
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[Basil Sources]: https://github.com/Herbal3d/basil
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[Robert Adams]: https://misterblue.com/
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[BSD License]: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
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[MIT License]: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
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[Apache License]: http://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0
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[Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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