Technical Functionality
Croquet is a software development kit (SDK) for use in developing collaborative virtual world applications.
Applications created using the Croquet SDK are automatically collaborative since application objects in Croquet share a common protocol that allows them to cooperate with each other by employing the principle of replicated computation (synchronization) together with a peer-based messaging protocol. The technology is designed to facilitate replication of computation between peers in order to greatly reduce the overhead required for widespread deployment of collaborative virtual worlds.
This efficiency, combined with the ability to deploy Croquet-based virtual worlds on consumer-level hardware, makes it possible for developers to deploy large-scale and highly-participatory collaborative worlds at very low cost compared with virtual world technologies that are entirely dependent on server-based infrastructures to support the activities of their users.
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