2019 HOBBIES: Hobbies and communities in virtual worlds. Summary

Hobbies and communities in Virtual Worlds 
Updated 7/12/2020

Hobbies and communities in virtual worlds Model railroads, Model trains  Model Cars,  sailing, boating, flying, aircraft, and space, Blogging and more.

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• Virtual worlds are about people.  Communities, communication, shared goals
• Model railroads, Model trains
• Model Cars
• Dune buggies
• Sailing, boating
• Flying, aircraft, and space
• Riding a horse
• Blogging
• Photography and videography
• Music
• Building
• Art
• Exploring
• Games and entertainment
• Role playing
• Content Creation: Build, script, video, classes, tools, collaborate

To search this blog for articles about hobbies, scroll down to the search bar in the right-hand column and enter HOBBIES:

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Rail

VRC Headquarters

• The railway community of Second Life
• Railway on the Hypergrid. Video

Models

• Asterion Coen shows his model rockets and model ship at the WIP show
• Model cars of Second Life
• Vintage auto show: Bay City Nights 2012, Aug. 18-25
• Vintage auto show: BAY CITY NIGHTS 2014, Aug. 23-30

Dune buggies

• Riding the dunes at OpenSim.Life

Racing, skiing  

• Cross-country ski touring at Novale of CreaNovale Grid (OpenSim) Video
• Blender Tutorial Racing Track for a Car Game
• Racer's Gulch

Sailing, boating

• Speed Boat Racing in OpenSIm on the 3rd Rock Grid
• Sailing articles in this blog
• Boating and sailing in the virtual worlds Speedboat jumps test
• Sunday sailing around scenic islands on Discovery grid
• Sailing the virtual seas with Kayaker Magic and his advanced NAV
• Sailing the Seas of OpenSim. And ignoring the physics engine
• Boating and sailing communities developing on the hypergrid
• BOATING: The Boat Race Course at Panthalassa
• First water skiing In Open Simulator (Vehicles)
• Fighter. Bullet Physics. Top Gun
• A sailing community in Second Life speaks to the outworld
• SL11B and the boating fraternity (or lack of)
• Sailing the seas of Opensim
• Sailing in Second Life – Mackenzie Abbot
• Sailing the Blake Sea: Barbarosa infohub
• Nantucket Yatcht Club
• The Freeport of Flotsam, Blake Diego Navy/Pirate Seaport
• The battle of Puerto Diego
• Second life Ocean Battles Forum
• Water Sports: Public Rezz place 
• VRC Ferry service at Heterocera Channel

Flying, aircraft, and space

• Aviation radio: Music to fly by. And to promote your aviation event
• B52 bomber in 'Nam. WW2 Dogfight competition. Flying Circus
• The aerospace community of Second Life
• SL Aviation Magazine - Issue 1
• Flying around Second LIfe. New Horizon Airport
• Fly Linden Air: premium perks
• JPL's Explorer Island
• Hollywood airport, Owner: Marktwain White
• Second Life International Airport
• Last Space Shuttle, the virtual view
• International Spaceflight Museum 

Riding a horse

• Horse jumping in the virtual worlds
• Kayaker builds a horse, problems and solutions at the WIP meeting

Writing, Blogging

• Blogging in virtual worlds. How to... Summary
• The writing communities of Virtual Worlds. What do they offer to writers?
• OZLAND Picture Stories writing series on Wednesdays 
• Blog to publicize Summary 
• Promoting Events in SL: Blogs 
• Combine Google calendars in your blog

See my Blog Roll at the right of this post.  It carries links to many blogs about Virtual Worlds.  The 25 most recent articles are listed-

Photography and videography

• NPCS and Holoscenes in OpenSim. Report from HG Safari
• Video/Machinima in virtual worlds, products, resources  
• Videos from the virtual world, Summary 
• Music Videos done in Second Life Summary 
• Media: Videos from Second Life, Summary 
• Textures, Pictures. How to make and use them

Music

• Resources for the entertainment business in Second Life Summary 
• Music Videos done in Second Life Summary 
• Enjoy, perform music in Second Life Summary 
• Music scene in Second Life.  Enjoy. 
• Duran Duran, virtual collection
• Nashville Music Row, music business in the virtual village
• Nashville in the snow. Music in a Christmas card

Building

• Toys for OpenSim: train engines, balloons to pop, rockets for role play
• WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
• At the WIP Show 8/9, at Cookie II on Kitely
• The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
• WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
• WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
• Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid
• Seen around Second Life, Fall 
• Space aliens invade Second Life
• Humdingers Toyland! Memorabilia of childhood
• Hobo Amusement Park--and why

Art

• Art done in Second Life Summary  
• Linden Endowment for the Arts Exhibit Directory
• Linden Endowment for the Arts: Review
• Immersive Art, Musical art

Exploring

• Tourist views of virtual worlds. Summary
• YavaScript pod tours
• Pod tours from Hobo Village
• Pod tour of Southwest Heterocera
• Pod travels get fancier
• Exploratorium in the virtual world
• Virtual Dublin and the sister cities 

Games and entertainment

• Games in virtual worlds. Summary
• Linden Multiquests. The Ice Hub by Magellan
• Resources for the entertainment business in Second Life Summary 2012
• Star Trek Museum
• Role playing games
• Sports and Hobbies
• Linden realms. Starting Second Life as a game
• How do you play this game? 

Role playing

• Tessin: Themed place: roleplay adventure: sailing, Utrechtse Statenjacht
• Starfleet Astraios, in the Gamma quadrant. Roleplaying
• United Federation of Planets. Gamma Quadrant. Starfleet.
• UFGQ United Federation of Planets, Gamma Quadrant, Starfleet

Communities

• Second Life communities

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Dinosaurs

• Kayaker Magic on the fence. Electric!

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Art

• Art done in virtual worlds Summary