[vos-d] Online Space

[Ken Taylor]

Reed Hedges wrote:
> One thing that I'd like to have at some point is a way to "enter"
> another object/space; e.g. when flying around the solar system it's
> really a "scale model" of sorts, until you decide to descend to the
> surface of a planet.   I guess the planet is basically a hyperlink to
> another version of itself. Perhaps the transition could be triggered
> automatically by proximity too. (though that might be confusing or
> irritating to users.)
>

Have you guys ever played with Celestia?  http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
... it seems like a lot from this discussion has been implemented there one
way or another.

Now something like Google Earth integrated into something like Celestia
would be really kick-ass.

-Ken