Types of interaction between RL(www) and SL?

Hi there to you all,

I wonder if you could help me with providing some descriptions of the types of interactions that take place between RL(www) and SL? Any sources to code or other lists would come in handy as well.

Given my newbie status I could only think of (as in having heard of):
+ RL(RSS) to SL
+ SL(email) to RL(email)
+ RL(Flickr) to SL (does this work???)
+ RL(Webradio) to SL
+ SL(blogging) to RL
+ SL(presence) to RL (like SLgadget, measuring presence)

Anyone interested of naming a few more? I am particularly interested in tools/scripts that make you build a combined RL and SL community.

Many thanks in advance.

From a Scripter's View, the Table at http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=communications
is the best Overview, one should really read and understand all Possibilities and Limits of LSL Communication.
Example : you can send Email to a Prim, if you know the Prim's Key (UUID), but you can't send Email to an Avatar.

@Cindy,

That's a great overview. Thanks!

Anyone specific details on Flickr to SL (slideshow or something)?

Flickr is possible (someone already did it) but AFAIK, it just uses SMIL and quicktime, so it's not specific to flickr. The same can be done with entire webpages if they are converted to images first.

I wrote an RSS browser that uses quicktime to display text (feeds, article titles, and descriptions) The key is to offload work to a web server. SMIL and TexML will let you display a lot of things. The downside is that it simply doesn't work for some people, due to their version of QT.

A good overview at how this works is at:
http://www.tranniefesto.co.uk/2006/11/20

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/IQ_InteractiveMovies/quicktimeandsmil/chapter_10_section_1.html

But overall.. think of what you can do:

* as the recipient of 2048 bytes of http response (non quicktime)
* with the output of a dynamically generated SMIL doc
* combining transparent prims as a touch UI over a quicktime display

And btw, when you see displays in-world that purport to get around the 1 video per parcel limit. .all they are doing is using SMIL to define different regions within a frame, each of which is referring to a different movie. There is still 1 master url driving things.

And btw, generating SMIL within LSL wont do any good, becuase the data needs to flow from the URL of the media parcel. (intermediate web servers are a must when you want to start doing some of the more interesting things)

There are some interesting possiblities of using RL email to send commands to SL objects ... back up a step and think of a IM'ing from a cell phone to a bot.

True for those 6 displays in one sort of things, but I put together a TV that can display different movies to different people on the same screen, or on different screens. By default, my land has an empty media URL and doesn't require it to be filled.
The only thing I use SMIL for on that screen is to display a logo over the video in one corner.