Virtual Outworlding: June 2014

Monday, June 30, 2014

2014 ART: PEOPLE: SL11B, the first 11 years. Part 2

Second Life, the first 11 years. Part 2
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Sunday June 22nd – Sunday July 5th—14 days of amazing exhibits.
The events are over, but the displays are open for another week.
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Giovanna Cerise and Daco Monday have created "Thought ... Birth .... Esistence" to SL11B, a work in which nuances and connections intersect and chase each other, take the form, creating our thinking. And the thought is our birth. It creates emotions and ideas and makes us exist .... Otherwise it would be oblivion ... Nothing.

Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL11B%20Spellbound/41/177/22

Pod tours

Catch an empty pod as it sails by. Or go to one of these stations:

Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL11B%20Fascinate/1/243/22

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL11B%20Wonderous/5/21/22

2014 PEOPLE: Stories of Impact: Virtual Helping Hands

Stories of Impact: Virtual Helping Hands
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Virtual Helping Hands

From the mission statement on their website:
"Virtual Helping Hands is a non-profit organization helping individuals from all over the world by coordinating virtual and non-virtual resources to assist with mental, physical and spiritual health. The organization networks via the Internet to work within a global community that reaches out to impact the world around them."

2014 SEE: PROMOTE: SL11B Big Hunt. Look for the SL11BIG Hunt sign

SL11B Big Hunt. Look for the SL11BIG Hunt sign
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Participating exhibitors will be showing the SL11BIG Hunt sign and will have a cool gift for you to pick up. Explore S11B, pick up your gifts.

The hunt will take place all over the eleven regions of the SL11B Community Celebration. This hunt is so BIG that there will be FOUR hunt paths… North, South, East, and West. And what a great way to see the celebration!

When you visit the celebration, look for the hunt signs. Then look around the participating exhibit for a gift box, with a cool FREE prize inside. See below for starting points

2014 PEOPLE: PROMO: Fanci's Deep, serving the Mer Community in SL. Mermaids and Mermen

Fanci's Deep, serving the Mer Community in SL
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Welcome to Fanci’s Deep. FD is made up of four homestead and part of one full region in the Hollywood Real Estate Sims in the United Sailing Sims of Second Life and is named for long time SL resident Fanci Beebe.
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Fanci's Deep location

Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Union%20Passage/223/213/1

Event Calendars

2014 ART: SL11B: Arcadia, Aley: Living Library & Freebie Center; All Things Aley

SL11B: Arcadia, Aley:
Living Library & Freebie Center; All Things Aley
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"All Things Aley" is a joint venture between the "Arcadia Asylum Museum and Exhibits" and "The Boardman Preservation Society" groups. Our two groups have come together over a common cause--the preservation and celebration of SL's culture and history, with a focus on Arcadia Asylum's role in it."

All things Aley
Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL11B%20Fascinate/114/190/22

"It's our opinion that by working together, we are able to promote interest in mainland and mainland culture. We hope that people who come for our "freebies" might look around at the rest of Boardman and become curious about its' history--and from that curiosity to eventually find and become a part of one of SL's many mainland communities themselves.

"We hope that this partnership will act as a model for other mainland communities who desire a boost in viewers and participants."

Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals

2014 HELP: Buying From The Kitely Market Place Over The Hypergrid

Buying From The Kitely Market Over The Hypergrid
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A video demonstrating how to purchase items from the Kitely Market Place. This is mainly for users of Avalonia Estate, but anyone on the HyperGrid can make use of it.-

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Kitely Market

2014 PEOPLE: ART: SL11B: Second Life, the first 11 years. The empires of the future...

SL11B: Second Life, the first 11 years.
The empires of the future are the empires of the minds
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Sunday June 22nd – Sunday June 29th—seven days of amazing exhibits, music, conversation, debate, firework displays, games, puzzles, sports and everything else the wonderfully inventive communities of Second Life™ can pack into seven days and 11 sims. And seven more days to explore, after the events are over.

Pod tours, the map

Catch an empty pod as it sails by. Or go to one of these stations:
Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL11B%20Fascinate/1/243/22
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL11B%20Wonderous/5/21/22

2014 EDU: VIDEO: Second Life Testis Tour

Second Life Testis Tour
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Animation of Testis Function

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Testes

2014 SEE: BIZ: Gardens and homes. The decorator story. And how it could become a business.

Gardens and homes. The decorator story.
And how it could become a business.
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Find the tipping bookcase

Photos from: Carol's style, Home sweet home!

Reprinted with permission

Beautify your home or garden
Market your interior decorator services.
Market your garden design services.
Show a room or garden, before and after.
Show a room or garden makeover.
Include products for sale.
With arrangements from the product sellers.
To compensate you for advertising their products.
Could somebody make a business out of that?
Has somebody made a business out of that?

And now a word from the Yes-butters

2014 ART: VIDEO: The Spread of Ideas at LEA18

The Spread of Ideas at LEA18
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Frankx Lefavre’s full sim futuristic desolation installation is a story come to life in 3D visualization ! The richly colored sim is great for photographers and film artists and is fun to explore, as well.
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2014 ART: VIDEO: Van Gogh in a virtual world. In video and song

Van Gogh in a virtual world. In video and song.
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Vincent Van Gogh

2014 PEOPLE: THERAPY: T2 Virtual PTSD Experience, T2 PTSD Education

T2 Virtual PTSD Experience, T2 PTSD Education
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Using the 3D virtual world of Second Life as the gateway, visitors to the Virtual PTSD Experience can take their avatars through simulated combat events and learn about how traumatic experiences can result in PTSD
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Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/T2%20PTSD%20Education/142/197/29

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Wikipedia)

2014 EDU: Etopia Island - Etopia EcoCommunities - Sustainable Living

Etopia Island - Etopia EcoCommunities
Sustainable Living
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Etopia Island - Etopia EcoCommunities - Sustainable Living

Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Etopia%20Island/191/54/22

2014 EDU: VIDEO: Virtual Chemistry. The Drax Files: World Makers

Virtual Chemistry
The Drax Files: World Makers

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Conducted together with Kurt Winkelman from the Florida Institute of Technology, the study comparing physical and virtual lab is funded by an NSF grant .. and learning in virtual worlds creates a strong sense of being together and collaborating in one shared space irrespective of physical location powerfully transcends - via avatar-based interaction - the multitude of social issues.

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Published on Apr 30, 2014

"The students using the lab replicated in Second Life had better retention of information than the students using only the physical lab!" Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt from Texas A & M University is excited about the preliminary findings of her study about how the unique affordances of virtual reality platforms like Second Life can Facilitate and Enhance the learning process. - Conducted together with Kurt Winkelman from the Florida Institute of Technology, the study comparing physical and virtual lab lab is funded by an NSF grant and slated to be finished in April 2015. - While the findings [so far] maybe indeed eye-opening for many who have not engaged with virtual reality in an educational context, is pioneering enthusiastic teachers and students alike They can hardly be seen as a surprise: learning in virtual worlds creates a strong sense of being together and collaborating in one shared space irrespective of physical location powerfully transcends - via avatar-based interaction - the multitude of social issues.

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News and Notes

U.S. Army Research Lab’s Simulation & Training Technology Center announced an open postdoctoral position on the MOSES team, which is working to develop the MOSES OpenSim grid and associated technologies. Hypergrid Business

Events This Week June 10 to June 16

Around the virtual worlds

Kitely Events Calendar

Arts

“Evening at the Ballet” by Ballet Pixelle®

Education

Virtual Worlds Campus Regions Are Free For Instructors

Writing

MadPea writing Contest

Prizes (in Lindens)

10,000L 1st place

3,000L 2nd place

2,000L 3rd place

Deadline: June 30, 2014

Details: MadPea writing Contest

Immersive Literature

A Poet's Progress is now accepting submissions for Sizzle.

Hypregrid Stories Project: Building Community Across Virtual Worlds

Grids

Kitely Welcome Center updated

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

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SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds

Videos from virtual worlds Summary

Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds

Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary

Art videos from the virtual world

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Friday, June 13, 2014

2014 PEOPLE: HELP: Role playing tools, immersive writing, encounter boxes

Role playing tools, immersive writing, encounter boxes
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3D places in a box. Scenes for immersion.
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Diner

Role playing
Storytelling in the scene
Language learning. See, name, talk about.
Video production
Improvisation practice. Support your imagination
Writing. Use the scene for ideas

A few of the scenes

Diner
Hospital
Police station
Rope bridge
Sheriff's office
Space ship, command deck
Treasure chamber
Slow boat to china
Western town, main street
Train in a western scene
and lots more

Get 'em here for Second Life

Mint Encounter Boxes (Second Life Market)

2014 TKR: Time Control. Eight things to do every day.

Time Control. Eight things to do every day
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You control your time. Or you leave it to something else--your boss, your family, your luck. Here is a first step in taking control of your time.
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What you need to started on on time control.

Take a week to get these things on paper or on your computer

TODO list: List of tasks you want to get done soon.
Goals: Big things you want get accomplished over time.
Subtasks: Small tasks that contribute to a big goal.
Subtask list: List of tasks needed to reach a big goal

2014 OPENSIM: Kitely Welcome Center updated

Kitely Welcome Center updated
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A brief look at the new Kitely Welcome Center.
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Kitely Welcome Center

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Find Kitely worlds to explore (all free)
Find Kitely merchants
Get a free avatar
Find out about upcoming events from the Kitely Calendar
FIRESTORM: Logging on to Kitely or another grid
Kitely Welcome Center
Hypergrid: grid.kitely.com:8002:Kitely Welcome Center

2014 COMEDY: VIDEO: Dirty little secrets revealed in a virtual world

Dirty little secrets revealed in a virtual world
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The secret of making comedy videos: Skillful writing.
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2014 VIDEO: Prep for a video shoot: the characters. AMP video notes

Prep for a video shoot: the characters
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Mannequins for stand-ins
The cast of characters
Costume and prop boxes
Green screens and color bars

Family photos.

The great Rector and his two agents.

In the background,

Lisa-Marie and some of her children
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All of these figures, except me, are mannequins. They are the size of the characters and dressed as the characters. As of yet, we don't have them in other poses, but they are useful to show the standing height and position for each character in a scene. They are copy-able so we can position multiple copies.

2014 VIDEO: PROMO: ART: Video poem. Beyond Sebgram X-99. How to promote your virtual world

Video poem. Beyond Sebgram X-99.
How to promote your virtual world
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Machinima Poem shot in both Second Life and on Kitely - Virtual Worlds on Demand. "Sometimes your love...is like an alien-nation..." Original music by the author.

2014 HOBBY: Sailing the seas of Opensim

Sailing the seas of Opensim
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by Kayaker Magic

2014 STAGE: Shakespeare at the Pavilion. Art Plays Around Friday, June 6, 2014, 5 pm Pacific time (US)

Shakespeare at the Pavilion.
Art Plays Around Friday, June 6, 2014

Special encore performance of Shakespeare scenes.
Performed LIVE by The Avatar Repertory Theater.
Filmed by award-winning machinima/media creator Draxtor Despres
YOU can be part of the audience during this shoot!

Avatar Repertory Theater – Plays Around

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http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/198/205/21

MadameThespian Underhill performs and directs Breyda Adored, Corwyn Allen, Joff Fassnacht, Kayden Oconnell, Ada Radius, Rowan Shamroy, Caledonia Skytower, Sodovan Torok and Avajean Westland.

Presented live in voice, free to all residents. Donations accepted.

For announcements about Avatar Repertory Theater (ART) and ART Plays Around, Join this Google+ Community:

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