That’s interesting—a previous community I was involved in also considered using Croquet for rich interaction, but at the time the technology barriers were high (they probably still are, no ? I haven’t checked it out recently).
What we did (well, they did mostly—I was in the wrong timezone and couldn’t take part most of the time) - was simultaneous voice chat and collaborative document editing (with an application that allowed to work at several on a text file with different colors for each user).
That’s interesting—a previous community I was involved in also considered using Croquet for rich interaction, but at the time the technology barriers were high (they probably still are, no ? I haven’t checked it out recently).
What we did (well, they did mostly—I was in the wrong timezone and couldn’t take part most of the time) - was simultaneous voice chat and collaborative document editing (with an application that allowed to work at several on a text file with different colors for each user).
A colleague of mind created this collaborative editing environment, if you think something like that would be useful:
http://www.lshift.net/blog/2009/03/02/evserver-part3-simplified-etherpad-clone