Oct 20, 2006
ABNet uses a Java Communications server with Javascript to turn a single-user VRML / X3D world into a Multi-user Virtual World environment. 3D Avatars can interact and use shared events to provide a virtual experience similar to the Blaxxun community platform. It works with Flux and BS Contact, although anyone handy at Javascript could add support for any X3D/VRML browser by supplying the Javascript that interfaces to the desired browser. The new v2.0 lets you download the server and run your own and offers an ActiveX client that is only 200k. The client provides a low latency async communication channel without the need for Java on the client. More generally, the communication framework of ABNet provides an asynchronous low-latency publish and subscribe environment using XML messages.
