[ourcat]

I remember when this sort of functionality arrived in Second Life.

It enabled a lot of easy 'shared experiences'. eg: Watching a live video stream of an event with people, or group presentations etc.

[Animats]

Yes. SL launches an instance of Chromium as a subprocess in the viewer for each object face that's an HTTP browser. I wonder if Servo could do that with less overhead.

[skavi]

Per callumprentice, Second Life uses Dullahan[0].

[0]: https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/dullahan/src/master/