In a very large-scale multi-user virtual environment, it would
seem to me that it may be very worth-while to consider the distribution of
the collision detection task. Notification of a collision detection is,
after all, a relatively low-bandwidth message.
Perhaps it will help later if we presently consider collision detection
more as a "high-level" behavior or state of the VE that can be passed
down theough event notifications much the same way that an avatar
movement would be, then as a "low-level" mechanism which should
intrinsically be the task of the individual browser to impliment and handle.
-Braddock
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