Vollee (http://www.vollee.com) offer something entirely unexpected: Second Life via your 3G mobile phone. Sound impossible? Well, actually, no.
Vollee take the innovative approach of remoting all the processing of the Second Life client and the 3D rendering of the image itself, by running this as a shart on a remote server. What the Vollee client does is recieve a video stream of the resulting image, and map your control responses back to the remote server.
Sounds like a complex solution? Maybe. Does it work? Absolutely! I have to say, having shown this technology to a number of colleagues, this is a bround-breaking solution to providing a real answer to hi-fidelity content on mobile devices: process it elsewhere and stream the resulting display.
I have to add that I am using the Nokia E61 version of the software on my Nokia E71, and it's working fine, if a little sluggish and not supporting the phone's WiFi connection (only working with the 3G internet).
So please hurry up with an E71 version, Vollee!
Vollee mention in their press content on their website that they are interested in using this as a technology to allow access to any persistent-world type game from your mobilephone ... so this could be a future where you can play WoW on your mobile.
Now, what would be really interesting is to see if anyone gets ahead of this by launching a VNC client for PC and Mobile Phone that allows you to do this using any application of your choice and manages the image resizing (or even a panning virtual desktop) for you and maps your controls appropriately....
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