Tuesday, October 31, 2017

2017 WW: Cybalounge tutorial: Visit public worlds

Cybalounge tutorial:  Visit public worlds
Cybalounge is designed to host multiple web-worlds, like a virtual world grid.  Here are instructions on how to find them in the Cybalounge for nonprofits site.  
Pushpin opens window 
for location selection

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Monday, October 30, 2017

2017 BIZ: IMA: Virtual Worlds Fair has an initial site: OSCC, Thirza's HG exhibit: : A project of the HG Chamber of Commerce

Virtual Worlds Fair has an initial site:
Thirza's HG exhibit at OSCC:

A project of the HG Chamber of Commerce
AvaCon hosts the OSCC and provides a persistent site for the annual builds there.  This matches the Virtual Worlds Fair concept of a persistent collection of exhibits.    Thirza Ember has a special site there that tells about the Hypergrid.  That makes an excellent gateway to introduce newcomers to the worlds of the Hypergrid.  .  
Thirza Ember's hypergrid venue 
at the  OSCC fairgrounds

Objective

  • Publicize and promote the virtual worlds of the Hypergrid.
  • Provide a place for new people to get acquainted with offerings of the Hypergrid. 
  • Provide a place for communities and merchants to show their offerings.
  • Encourage promotion of Hypergrid worlds to the outworld.

Concept

  • The proposed Virtual Worlds Fair is a distributed place.
  • A collection of venues connected by hypergates.
  • It would have events sometimes to promote specific venues 
  • But the main feature will be persistent venues ready for visits any time.
  • So when you meet new people, you can give them a LM to the Fair grounds.

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Sunday, October 29, 2017

2017 PEOPLE: SEE: HG Safari visits IMA Halloween site.

HG Safari visits IMA Halloween site
Mal Burns and I visit the IMA site prepared for the IMA Halloween party.  Zombies, ghosts, and other strange happenings greet us.  The places is also full of weird freebies. 

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  • HG address: 
  • hypergrid.org:8002:ima outpost alpha
  • Put HG address in Find bar of  world map, click Find, TP
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Saturday, October 28, 2017

2017 WW: What DragNDrop for web-worlds means for inventories

What DragNDrop for web-worlds means for inventories
Now that we can drag and drop things to build in Cybalounge, we need to rethink the inventory.  We may prefer to keep our main inventories on our own computers, keeping inworld only the things we have rezzed there.

With DragNdrop

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Friday, October 27, 2017

2017 EDU: Educational cartoons for kids: Could you make cartoons in a virtual world?

Educational cartoons for kids.   
Could you make cartoons in a virtual world?
Of course you could.  Would it offer any advantages?  A virtual world is a graphic engine.  It can produce animated graphics sequences with simple video capture.  Lots of scenery content is available for sale.  You can hire people to make content for you: avatars, objects, scenery.  You can rehearse the cartoon as much as you want.  Maybe it would cut the production cost to a price educators can afford.

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Thursday, October 26, 2017

2017 STAGE: Avatar Repertory Theater (ART) Presents a Frightful Halloween Show

Avatar Repertory Theater (ART) 
Presents a Frightful Halloween Show
BLOOD!
SO MUCH BLOOD.
WHO IS TO BLAME?
Join Avatar Repertory Theater for our disturbingly gruesome adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Coming soon to the A.R.T site at the KITELY virtual world, Halloween 2017 on Saturday 28th 12 noon and 4.00pm Sunday 29th October.

Avatar Repertory Theater commonly known as ART,is a theatre troupe that performs primarily in the virtual world Second Life, though they have recently extended to other virtual platforms such as OSGrid and Kitely.  --Wikipedia
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    Tuesday, October 24, 2017

    2017 EDU: WW: Are educators leaving virtual worlds? Or just going to lower cost places?

    Are educators leaving virtual worlds?
    Or just going to lower cost places?
    An article in Hypergrid Business announces "Educators sour on virtual worlds."    That conclusion may be too sweeping, since the evidence is limited to Second Life, but it is still useful to consider whether virtual worlds are living up to the potential that they once seemed to offer.
    Modern classroom

    Educators sour on virtual worlds by NUELA ADA · AUGUST 15, 2017

    Educators are souring on virtual worlds, as evidenced by declining participation in online forums, in virtual conference attendances and education-related destinations on the Second Life grid.....
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    Monday, October 23, 2017

    2017 MODELS: Asterion Coen Shows his model rockets and model ship at the WIP show

    Asterion Coen Shows his model rockets 
    and model ship at the WIP show
    Two videos from the September WIP show. both depicting models under construction by Asterion Coen:  A model of the spaceship proposed by Space X to transport people to the Mars Colony. A model of the ocean-going ship Okeanos Explorera U. S. ship fitted for oceanic exploration

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    Sunday, October 22, 2017

    2017 WW: Cybalounge tutorial: The Interaction Primitive, sit spheres, etc.

    Cybalounge tutorial:  The Interaction Primitive,  
    sit spheres, etc.
    Instructions for using an interaction prim to give a sit pose. 
    Setting interaction prim
    Click image to enlarge
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    Saturday, October 21, 2017

    2017 EDU: Global Education Conference Online: during International Education Week (November 13-16)

    Global Education Conference Online: 
    during International Education Week 
    (November 13-16) 
    Free, no travel, all online: 8th annual Global Education Conference.  For the whole community of the internet.  Virtual worlds and more.  Of course, more.  We virtual worlders think outside of the box.  Even outside of the virtual worlds.  
    Future of education

    Globally connected teaching and learning

    Strands

    • Student
    • Teacher
    • Curricular
    • Dual language/world language
    • Leadership 
    • UN's Sustainable Development Goals 
    • Experiential learning programs
    "If you are interested in meeting the ISTE standards for students and teachers related to global collaboration, our conference can help you!"
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    Metaverse events, recent and upcoming

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