I hate to repeat stuff that’s already out there, but this is just too cool to let it pass. Marcos Weskamp has created a remote driver application in Flash – more information and the application itself here – in which you can remotely drive a small RC car on their office. It’s pretty cool just to stay on the queue watching other people control it and chat at the same time.
It’s a bit lagged (the server is located in Tokyo, Japan) but definitely a good example of what Flashcomm can do (although I think the same result could be achieved with a simple XMLSockets server, only that it’d be cheaper).
In other news, the logo turtle is jealous and demands attention.
Hi Zeh, we wouldn’t be able to do this with XMLSocket because it does not support video transmission. And I guess we will never see a XMLSocket server with such support.
Oops, in fact – I wasn’t thinking about the video stream stuff, just the data exchange. True, that won’t work with xmlsockets and it’s not on the sockets scope.