Monday, September 22, 2014

2014 NEW: Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College

Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world
at Georgia Gwinnett College
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An excellent tutorial circuit for newcomers is available at GGC Island.  Here is a summary of the tutorial in pictures of the instructional posters.  All the posters should be readable if you click the image to enlarge it.  The tutorial is open to the public.   It is probably a better place to start than the Linden entry ports.  
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Click image to enlarge
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  • How to walk
Excellent advice
  • Don't try to personalize your avatar when you start
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  • Learning how to cam around will save you a lot of time walking.
  • You can sit at an event and look all around the place.
  • You can even look in places you shouldn't.
  • If you know how to use the cam controls.
  • (Be careful.  Some viewers can show the user where you are looking.)
Keyboard Cam Controls
  • I prefer to use the Keyboard Cam Controls.  
  • I don't like the window control cluttering up my screen
Practice and see the value

Color coding (upstairs)

  • Blue: Viewing
  • Pink:  SL Tech Sanity
  • Green:  Sitting
  • Salmon:  Chatting
  • Lavendar:  Stuff (notecards, vendors, etc.)
  • Grey:  Teleporting
  • Yellow:  Appearance
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Sit and stand
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  • This trick is great for a fast move
  • You can cam quite a distance and still move to the seat instantly
  • You can even use it to get into or out of closed places.
  • Very handy if you rez somewhere and are stuck in a wall.
  • It does not have to be a chair.  You can sit on most surfaces.
  • You can even sit on the ground.
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Talk to people near you
  • This is text chat 
Private messages (IMs)
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  • Get notecards (information) and things
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  • Travel: teleporting

  • Landmarks


Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds

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News and Notes

  • OSgrid down 
  • More news in my blog roll (column on the right)

Events in the virtual worlds  

How to handle a Hypergrid address 

From any Hypergrid-enabled grid, paste the address into the address bar of Firestorm and press enter. Or paste it into the world map search bar of any viewer, search, and click Teleport when the destination is found. If it doesn't work, don't give up. Try again later. Some hypergrid destinations are offline part of the day.
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Contests and dated calls/invitations

    Machinima - 2014 Project SciFi Competition (Registrations by 3 Oct)

    2014 Project SciFi Competition in partnership with Screen My Shorts and sponsored by the Parramatta City Council is giving filmmakers, Machinima makers and animators 30 days to write, shoot, edit, produce and upload a 3-10min short film with $5,500 (Australian Dollars) in cash prizes. -All films that enter into this years Project SciFi will be screened at Riverside Theatres.  Teams must register by 3rd October 2014 and nominate 2 scifi subjects that they would like to make their film about. For registrations visit ... 

    Subjects for Machinima makers, 2014 Project SciFi Competition

    • Sci-Romance – Love between Aliens, Robots and more! (Can be Happy, Sad or Tragedy) 
    • Sci-Comedy – Science fiction that is humorous in nature. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a good example of SciFi Comedy. 
    • Save the Environment – A theme focuses on saving the dying planet and/or ecosystem 
    • Zombie / Disease – A theme focuses on the effect of a disease in the future. 
    • Apocalyptic / Post-Apocalyptic SciFi – Stories about the extinction or near extinction of humankind either by forces of nature or by our own means. Post- focuses on telling the tale of the survivors of an apocalypse. 
    • Spy-Fy – Science fiction about futuristic spies and espionage, and the effects of technological advancement on their professions. 
    • Super Hero – Stories related to super heroes who get their powers from technology or because they are from another world. Often focuses on futuristic superheroes. 
    • Robots / AI – Fiction in which the science of Artificial Intelligence and robotics is a central theme, typically relating to Robot stories. 
    • First Contact / Alien – This sub genre imagines the various scenarios in which humanity makes contact with other civilizations. 
    • Social Science Fiction - Fiction in which future societies are extrapolated, explained and often criticized, usually for the purpose of social satire. The social sciences are the overriding theme in this type of fiction; however, science and technology will usually play a central role in the structure of the extrapolated society.
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    National Agenda 2014 focuses on the battle for control of congress midway through the Obama second term, with some of the biggest and most experienced names in American politics
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    Midtown Arts Museum is launching its first participation storybuild on Monday, 9.1.2014, Wear Your Goggles to the Goldrush. All elements are ready for visitors, explorers and amateur sleuths to plunder. A storybuild mystery is not an event that is attended. Rather clues and story are collected, assembled and written by the participants who journey through it. It is writing via pictures and conversation - - the natural, entertaining and effortless way. Oakes Valley blog. 
    Hypergrid address:  grid.kitely.com:8002:Oakes Valley  
    Kitely World page:http://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Ruby-ODegee-2/Oakes-Valley
    Companion websites:http://oakesvalley.blogspot.co.uk/http://immersivestorybuilder.blogspot.co.uk/
    Longer summary and pictures on HG Destinations websitehttp://destinations.virtual-memoirs.co.uk/kitely-oakes-valley/
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    The theme is 'TRANSCENDING BORDERS.' Artists & filmmakers can interpret the theme as they see fit. Whether transcending borders between time and space, past and present, one nation and another, one language and another, a culture or civilization or any other of the innumerable borders that present themselves as we navigate our lives. You the artist... You the machinimatographer...You decide.
    Entries Close at Midnight SLT 31st October 2014. Winners will be announced in December 2014.   
    UWA Art & Film Challenges 2014 with L$1.03 Mil in Prizes, early entries 
    And don't forget the many imagined borders, walls, that we make for ourselves.   Those are the worst kind.--TKR

    Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds

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