| MANOFMUSCLE Beverly Registered User Join date: 25 Oct 2008 Posts: 13 | 01-10-2009 17:15 we need a Secondlife that is compatible with the Wii | 
        
            
                | Baloo Uriza Debian Linux Helper   Join date: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 895 | 01-10-2009 21:13 From: MANOFMUSCLE Beverly we need a Secondlife that is compatible with the WiiThe Wii couldn't handle it.  You *need* a lot of storage space for local cache, and the Wii just doesn't deliver in that department.  You might be able to work around the problem with an SD card, but that doesn't get you past the fact you don't have a keyboard or microphone at your disposal, which would make it pointless for chatting.  And since it's single-tasking, you're not going to be able to do things like switch out ot edit a texture or create a sculpty, then upload it.  The Wiimote isn't exactly presice or ergonomic for fine motor movement, it's not bad for games where the controls and abilities are limited to what you can do with a wiimote without killing yourself or giving yourself carpal tunnel. Second Life for the Wii would be like staring at an ODOT freeway camera:  You see the world moving around you but you can't interact with it. | 
        
            
                | SuezanneC Baskerville Forums Rock!   Join date: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 14,229 | 01-10-2009 22:24 It would be interesting to see a Wii based virtual world.  
 Not Second Life, a virtual world made to use the Wii system to it's best advantage.
 
 If their was more demand for free-form, user created content virtual worlds, there probably would be one, if the development cost and return on investment and such looked ok.
 
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                | AJ DaSilva woz ere   Join date: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1,993 | 01-15-2009 14:26 Yeah, not enough memory, storage or processing power to do it sensibly.  You could hack quite usable clients in several ways, but you'll always severely limit the user experience and/or require massive amounts of new infrastructure. | 
        
            
                | MANOFMUSCLE Beverly Registered User Join date: 25 Oct 2008 Posts: 13 | 01-15-2009 21:56 From: Baloo Uriza   You might be able to work around the problem with an SD card, but that doesn't get you past the fact you don't have a keyboard or microphone at your disposal, which would make it pointless for chatting.  .I actually hooked a keyboard to the back of my Wii. in fact i posted this thread on my Wii | 
        
            
                | Destiny Niles Registered User Join date: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 949 | 01-15-2009 23:12 I would like to see the wii control used, but not the wii system itself. | 
        
            
                | AJ DaSilva woz ere   Join date: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1,993 | 01-15-2009 23:25 From: Destiny Niles I would like to see the wii control used, but not the wii system itself.That's actually quite easy, I'm pretty sure people have done it already. Not sure why you'd want to, unless you've got nowhere to put a mouse, though. |