Why the BitTorrent Problem is Insignificant

ThirdPipe has covered the BitTorrent-Comcast ‘war’ at various levels. As a tactical battle it makes for interesting history. But any general will tell ya that the supply depot wins or loses the battle. Well in the P2P engagement the equivalent of logistics is software.

Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment and software infrastructure for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and metaverses on and across multiple operating systems and devices. Derived from Squeak, it features a peer-based network architecture that supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation between multiple users on multiple devices.
Its about time!

Its about time. Croquet’s time-based synchronization capabilities enable real-time, identical interactions between groups of users while dramatically reducing the need for server infrastructures to support virtual world deployment. Croquet’s architecture makes it easy to develop deeply collaborative applications without having to spend a lot of effort and expertise in understanding how replicated applications work.

Go way beyond virtual dollhouses

Dollhouses to holodecks. Create a multi-user virtual world application with avatars and furniture - or create deeply customized 3D-enabled applications where any level of object and function can be implemented. Imagination is the only limitation. Using the Croquet SDK, software developers can create and link powerful, deeply efficient, and highly collaborative cross-platform multi-user 2D and 3D applications and custom simulations/data visualizations - making possible the distributed deployment of very large scale, highly functional, and interlinked peer-based virtual spaces at extremely low operating costs.

Yes, a multiuser Second Life’-like environment. Only this one is capable of being totally controlled by the enduser/developer. Watch the video.

Why does Croquet make BitTorrent insignificant? Think about it BitTorrent is just a file transfer accelerator using P2P threads. Croquet? How about an enduser launching multiple P2P sessions as part of a multiverse Blitzkrieg battle game? That sucking sound? Its the bandwidth on Comcast’s headend going South. This catches on and Comcast will long for the days when their biggest problem was BitTorrent.

By the way — this is Open Source.

Croquet website.