High Fidelity - decentralized virtual reality with a cryptocurrency

[uncaer9]

Philip Rosedale - the creator of Second Life has an ambitious plan to create a decentralized virtual reality consisting of voxels. The only way he's going to make profit are services like DNS.
His virtual world is going to have a cryptocurrency rewarded for contributing your computing for simulation of the world, the computation could be even done by a smartphone.
It is going to have implemented support of Oculus Rift, Leap Motion, Kinect etc. and it is going to be expandable. The world and the interface can be programmed through JavaScript.
The project has a significant funding and is open-source from the beginning. You can take part in a development too and even earn some money - details can be found on their website.
You can see the current progress on Silicon Valley Virtual Meetup #9 video, it is impressive how much they have already done.

[poncom]

This sounds interesting. Their website says they hate latency, but also that smart phones will be able to power its grid. Smart phone data reception is notoriously bad when it's raining. In fact someone designed a program that can predict how heavily it's raining by using attenuation of signal strengths from cell phone towers. There is often no signal at all during really heavy rain. How will high fidelity get around this if it is to use smart phones as part of the computing power for its grid?

[uncaer9]

This sounds interesting. Their website says they hate latency, but also that smart phones will be able to power its grid. Smart phone data reception is notoriously bad when it's raining. In fact someone designed a program that can predict how heavily it's raining by using attenuation of signal strengths from cell phone towers. There is often o signal at all during really heavy rain. How will high fidelity get around this if it is to use smart phones as part o the computing power for its grid?

Maybe smartphones are going to be used for simulations that doesn't require so low latency and PCs for the rest.

[Momimaus]

Is there a possibility to invest in this project early`?

[cryptopaths]

Yes this is a very ambitious project.

[Bit_Happy]

Hopefully it will be much better than Second Life!