ExitReality Blaxxun Competitor

[thyme]

Someone recently informed me that Alien Planet was being displayed on a new 3d platform:

ExitReality
http://www.exitreality.com

So I checked it out by downloading the browser (click on the signup button, its only a 3.7 mb download).
I was glad to be able to get in a world on dial up though it did take a long time opening the first world which had lots of audio (and possibly multi media) files.
Hint: to save time click on Alien Planet soon as you see it in places if you are on dialup to bypass the first world's lengthy load.
ExitReality is only at a beta stage but I am impressed by the way it can open worlds and avatars that use Blaxxun specific nodes and script functions.
Even the chat commands for Alien planet worked when I used the chat messenger!
My single mesh animated avatars which uses a Blaxxun specific script function work so I guess any avatars from avatar studio will too.
ExitReality have a range of their own avatars which can be selected inside the browser. Their avs look higher quality than those produced by avatar studio except the textures never seem to fully load for me (possibly they do when not on dialup).
ExitReality does not have text to speech synth but it has a number of interesting features of its own.
I doubt it has the Blaxxun crash bug and it has no floating logo but it is not open source software so beware of what its future may hold but it is exciting to see old Blaxxun VRML content getting this kind of support from a competitor.
If you install ExitReality it will become your default VRML browser for single-user online wrls (like most VRML browsers when you install them) so you will have to re-register or reinstall contact afterwards if you want Contact to be restored as your default browser for single-user online wrls.

[Omind]

Tried it and the default world works fine, but IE & Crazy Browser crash when I go anywhere else. I'll keep looking into it.....Okay, figured it out, looks like they got their world list from Rick's server. Works really well tho. Unfortunately, I'm running a quad core PC with 2 video cards & 4 gig of ram, so I am not the best judge of what it's minium requirements are

[tutancamon]

Yes, but for what kind of computers ?
How RAM, space HDD, speed of processor ?
What Video-card ?

Exist many 3d files players:
IMVU:
http://www.imvu.com/
Second Life
http://secondlife.com/
.
.
.

'Blaxxun' can run on low computers, without more hard resources ... And it work very well !
I'll try this 'ExitReality'. ThankYou for this information.

[Alain]

Hint: to save time click on Alain Planet soon as you see it in places

LOL

by the way , good finding ,
I will try it , thanx for the info

[tutancamon]

Yes!
Is enteresting this ExitRealityBrowser.ocx !
I'll study ...
He use more resources like blaxxun browser. But he is realy enteresting.
Thankx again, Boss !

[tutancamon]

Ehe he he ... is not a competitor !
Push on F2 to see his mouse menu !
Probably this 'ExitReality' is a version of our 'BSContact 7.1'. I am not sure for this. Is just a suposition !

But Boss, my computer is owerflowed ... . Is so hard for him ! Poor my computy !!!

[tutancamon]

ExitReality
Object:

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<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:0EC70F10-F7A1-49A1-A13F-DCA7BC3BFC96" ID=ExitReality width="567" height="350">
  <param name="_Version" value="327683">
  <param name="_ExtentX" value="15002">
  <param name="_ExtentY" value="9260">
  <param name="_StockProps" value="65">
  <param name="BackColor" value="16777215">
  <param name="Enabled" value="-1">
  <param name="SRC" value="C:\PROGRA~1\EXITRE~1\Common\System\ExitRealityBrowser.wrl">
  <param name="VRML-DASHBOARD" value="0">
  <param name="FULLSCREEN" value="0">
  <param name="FULLSCREEN-MODE" value>
  <param name="TIMER-INTERVAL" value="0">
  <param name="AVATAR-URL" ref value="http://avs.exitreality.com/Don/Don.wrl">
  <param name="AVATAR-DISPLAY" value="0">
  <param name="TARGET" value>
  <param name="FORCE-HW" value="0">
  <param name="FORCE-RGB" value="-1">
  <param name="HW-PROBLEM-CHECK" value="-1">
  <param name="HIDE-CURSOR" value="0">
  <param name="FAST-MODE" value="0">
  <param name="BACKGROUND-COLOR" value>
  <param name="BACKGROUND-IMAGE" value>
  <param name="SPLASH-SCREEN" value>
  <param name="STARTUP-SCREEN" value="-1">
  <param name="UI-URL" value>
  <param name="NAVIGATION-MODE" value>
  <param name="LOW-QUALITY" value="0">
  <param name="MENU-MODE" value="-1">
  <param name="PRELOAD" value="0">
  <param name="TRANSPARENT" value="0">
  <param name="WINDOWLESS" value="0">
  <param name="DRAG-DROP" value="-1">
  <param name="RELATIVE-TIME" value="0">
  <param name="EDIT-MODE" value="0">
  <param name="BXX-URL" value>
</OBJECT>

[tutancamon]

ExitReality
Commands and Properties:

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AboutBox
addBrowserScriptObserver
addFieldScriptObserver
addNode
addRoute
addVrmlFromString
animateAllViewpoints
avatarHeight
BackColor
BackStyle
beamTo
beginUpdate
collisionDetection
collisionDistance
computeRayHit
createNode
createVoiceChatObject
createVrmlFromString
createVrmlFromURL
deleteRoute
description
Enabled
endUpdate
ExitRealityUrl
getAvatarType
getCap
getControlPathname
getCurrentFrameRate
getCurrentSpeed
getErrorMessage
getEventIn
getEventOut
getInstallDir
getInterfaceVersion
getLastError
getMyAvatarNode
getMyAvatarURL
getMyNickname
getName
getNavigationPanel
getNode
getNodeBoundingBox
getNodeEventOut
getNodeField
getNodeName
getObject
getOption
getProfile
getThirdPersonView
getUiMode
getVersion
getViewpointByValue
getWorld
getWorldURL
gravity
groupChat
headlight
hWnd
ignoreAvatar
isSceneLoaded
isVoiceCapable
load
loadURL
loadURLfromFile
loadURLfromFile2
navigationMode
OnNextViewpoint
OnPrevViewpoint
onUrlNotify
onUrlNotify2
openPreferences
playSound
print
privateChat
ReadyState
removeBrowserScriptObserver
removeFieldScriptObserver
removeNode
renderMode
replaceWorld
request
requestObjectAttribute
requestOpenScene
saveViewpoint
saveWorld
sendPrivateText
sendSharedEvent
sendText
setDescription
setFullscreen
setMicrofone
setMyAvatarNode
setMyAvatarURL
setNavigationPanel
setNodeEventIn
setNodeField
setNodeName
setObjectAttribute
setObserver
setObserverWnd
setOption
setThirdPersonView
setTimerInterval
setUI_URL
setUiMode
setUrl2
setViewpointByValue
setViewpointFollow
speakText
subscribe
unsubscribe
url
version
viewpoint
visibilityLimit
walkSpeed
world

[tutancamon]

WOW !
Now I am go back to 'blaxxun 5.1'.

[thyme]

Tried it and the default world works fine, but IE & Crazy Browser crash when I go anywhere else

I have not crashed yet while using ExitReality and I have gone through a good many worlds now but I have not experienced many people join and leave a world which is the most likeliest time for one to crash in blaxxun.

Hint: to save time click on Alain Planet soon as you see it in places

lol sorry for confusing Alien Planet with Alain Planet yet again Alain, I fixed my typo thanks

Push on F2 to see his mouse menu !
Probably this 'ExitReality' is a version of our 'BSContact 7.1'. I am not sure for this. Is just a suposition !

It did cross my mind tutancamon that this was contact under the bonnet because of the high compatibility factor but I doubt very much blaxxun or bitmanagement is behind it.
According to this page:
http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/exitreality/

ExitReality is based in Britain/Australia not Germany and has existed since 2002 (around the same time Holger left Blaxxun and created Bitmangement)

My guess is ExitReality is trying hard to make it friendly for blaxxun contact users as well as making it more in fashion with youtube and myspace.

[tutancamon]

[...]ExitReality is based in Britain/Australia not Germany and has existed since 2002 (around the same time Holger left Blaxxun and created Bitmangement)[...]

BOSS, see the file named exitgeneratorMessenger.exit. He is similar with ccpro.bxx.
Then,
1) mouse menu of 'ExitReality' is similar with mouse menu of 'Blaxxun Contact'
2)*.exit file is similar with *.bxx file
3) all most parameters of 'Blaxxun Contact 5.1' are exactly like on 'ExitReality'
4) all most methods and properties of 'Blaxxun Contact 5.1' are exactly like on 'ExitReality'

And, You are sure ? 'Black Sun' is not from U.S.A. ? And 'Cortona' from Russia ?

Anyway, 'ExitReality' is an enteresting application.

[thyme]

Blaxxun (once named Black Sun) had an office or at least a telephone number in the USA but it was never based there.

Holger the programmer who developed both Blaxxun & Bitmangemnt Contact is from Germany. (Bitmangemnt is based in Germany)
http://home.snafu.de/hg/

Peter Graf one of the founding members of Blaxxun and who wrote the Blaxxun servers is from Germany:

http://www.mission-base.com/peter/cve.html

Hermetic Cab (from http://www.cyworx.com) worked in a Blaxxun office in Germany, you can ask him on his own forum what Blaxxun coffee tasted like


It is easy to make menus and dialog boxes look identical if both use the windows API to do this (which most likely they do) and if you arrange everything in the same order.
I purposefully tried to make Seamless3d familiar to users of Avatar Studio (why I used walking legs for the Anim node's icon):
http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/av_studio/index.html
but Seamless3d of course is also very different (and offers a lot more artistic freedom) and is in no way a copy.

Blaxxun did make the source files for Contact 4.3 open source for a while (and maybe still do) but ExitReality is obviously much more than Contact 4.3.
Because ExitReality's chat window is completely different yet retains the same layout, this tells us they are trying to keep familiarity on purpose.

The source code for Contact 4.3 did not include the chat component.
Contact 4.3 would not be able to display YouTube, MySpace, Bepo etc.(they did not exist then)


ExitReality does not seem to natively support hanim nodes.
I made a simple animated triangle and output it as a wrl using hanim nodes.
Contact has no problem opening it except it warns they are not standard nodes for VRML where as ExitReality displays:

Unknown Node class "HAnimHumanoid"

in the console.

This tells us it is not contact 6.0 to 7.1

ExitReality does not seem to utilise any analogue input from the mouse for navigating in the 3d scene like contact 4.3 and up do.

Remember Internet Explorer began as a program that mimicked many of Netscape's features. IE still tells the server it is Mozilla when it does a HTTP GET command (but it also sends information to let servers know it is IE if they can understand such an extension).

[thyme]

The ExitReality changelog indicates this software is in rapid development:

http://download.exitreality.com/ChangeLog.txt

I notice:

X3D Support Fixed (Static Models Only)

[tutancamon]

ExitReality,
is an excelent 3d aplication. He has a lot of facilities. I know this, because yesterday I try this product. I wos in ExitReality community. He has an excelent graphic interface, and is very simple to use. I can move,put and get objects.I can visit a lot of virtual worlds. In ExitReality community, my avatar is very nice and very complex and also I can interact with aser users.
I beleave in ExitReality's future. Is an usefule and funny 3d community.
My computer, (procesor 'AMD Duron 1.2MHz',ram 128M, videocard onboard) can run ExitReality, slowly, but acceptable.
I recomand this very modern 3d community to be used by all folks ...
Yes,
I'll go to entry on ExitReality !

[tutancamon]

Yes, again, I have ExitReality on my PC.
Today and tomorow, will make some tests with this excelent player.
He he he ... may be work like blaxxun demo platform May be is free for all
Ofcuorse, I have an acount in ExitReality community.