What can you do with Browser on Prim (BOP)?
Updated 1/12/ 2015Scroll down for News and notes (including articles about new TOS)
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Show your calendar inworld
Updated 1/12/ 2015Scroll down for News and notes (including articles about new TOS)
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- Show your calendar inworld.
- Show a Twitter stream inworld.
- Show a video inworld.
- Show your current blog page
- Show a selected blog page
- Self-resetting Browser-on-Prim script
- Works in various viewers: Firestorm, Second Life Viewer
- Works in Second Life and in Opensim
Show your calendar inworld
- Browser on prim, advanced. Videos, calendars
- Calendars of the Hypergrid: One calendar to rule them all. Opensim community building
- Using the Kitely calendar--or any other Google calendar for events
- Use a Google calendar to promote events in virtual worlds
- OPENSIM: Kitely Events Calendar
- Calendars for Second Life: Venues, events, classes
- Google calendars: blog, display, wear combine. Summary
- Venue owners, music managers: Got a Google calendar to promote?
- Promote with your event calendar
- Calendars for Second Life: Venues, events, classes
- Google calendars: blog, display, wear combine. Summary
Show a Twitter stream inworld
- Twitter stream on your blog or webpage. Make a virtual world poster.
- Tweets stream about OpenSim Conference
Show a video inworld
Show your current blog page: copy-paste the url from the address bar of that page into the Browser-on-prim script below.
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In most blogging systems, the current page is what comes up when you Google on the name of the blog. It displays the most recent post at the top. Thus that is what will show when you make the page into a BOP
Show a selected blog page
Open the page you want to display and copy-paste the url from the address bar into the Browser-on-prim script below.Self-resetting Browser-on-Prim script
//Enter the Url(s) for the page(s) you want to dispaly.
// creative commons license, attribution only
float wait = 900; //Number of seconds before refresh to script settings
default
{
state_entry()
{ llSetTimerEvent(wait);}
timer()
{ string URL2="http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com";
//Enter the urls between the quotes
//The web page may not appear for 15 minutes or more --
// the change happens after the timer times out
llSetPrimMediaParams(1, // Side to display the media on (Lesser Y)
[PRIM_MEDIA_AUTO_PLAY,TRUE, // Show this page immediately
PRIM_MEDIA_CURRENT_URL, URL2 ]);
//
llSetPrimMediaParams(3, // Side to display the media on (Greater Y)
[PRIM_MEDIA_AUTO_PLAY,TRUE, // Show this page immediately
PRIM_MEDIA_CURRENT_URL, URL2 ]);
}
}
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- This scripts works in both SL and Opensim
- The script resets the BOP to the specified url every 15 minutes.
- Replace the url (http://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com) with the url you want.
- The browser will show on both sides.
- To show the browser on only one side, cancel one set of display lines.
- Cancel by deleting or by putting // in front of each of the 3 lines,
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News and Notes
Events in the virtual worlds
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Contests and dated calls/invitations
The Journal of Virtual Studies currently has a call for papers open. The journal is peer reviewed and focuses on the use of virtual spaces for knowledge immersion. Do you work or research in Second Life, OpenSim or any other virtual platform? Have you been engaged in research, exploration or reflection when using MMPORG’s? Have you discovered a virtual space with knowledge immersion possibilities or have you engaged in a fascinating new way to explore the virtual through any number of immersive online applications?
These and many other questions are explored by the JoVS. The Fall 2014 issue is expected to publish in September. For details, see here: Journal of Virtual Studies
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- RezMela in Kitely: Simulations for disaster response training, and contests!
- Deadline: Sunday August 31st 2014, 11 pm EDT
- Photography Contest: prizes: $50, $30, $20
- Machinima Contest: prizes: $250, $110, $40
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 civilisation or any other of the innumerable borders that present themselves as we navigate our lives. You the artist... You the machinimatogrpher...You decide.
Entries Close at Midnight SLT 31st October 2014. Winner will be announced in December 2014. First entries
News, new TOS, Google and pseudonyms
Kitely updates to OpenSim 0.8
- Varregions will not be available. For now, Kitely will stick to its own megaregions.
- ODE physics will be the default, but you can set your region to Bullet Sim if you choose.
- Varregions will not be available. For now, Kitely will stick to its own megaregions.
- ODE physics will be the default, but you can set your region to Bullet Sim if you choose.
Events
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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds.
- New to Kitely? New to Opensim? Start at the U
- Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
- UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
- New Citizens Inc
- Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
- Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate
Education
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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds
- New Media Arts, Inc
- 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
- Comedy videos from the Virtual World
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- For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+
- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
- Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
- Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
- Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
- Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
- Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
- What is Second Life?
- Annotated screen shots made with Jing
- All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only.
- Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
- This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.
- Ads are from Google
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- Drop by my place in Second Life
- Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
- http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
- Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second LIfe or Kitely
- Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
- Google+ page; Virtual World Video
- Lauren is funny; Avatar Repertory Theater
- New Media Arts, Inc
- 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
- Comedy videos from the Virtual World
- For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+
- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
- Kitely: low cost virtual worlds.
- Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
- Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
- Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
- Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
- What is Second Life?
- Annotated screen shots made with Jing
- All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only.
- Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
- This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.
- Ads are from Google
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- Drop by my place in Second Life
- Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
- http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/136/100/22
- Feel free to send me an IM, notecard, or friend request in Second LIfe or Kitely
- Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
- Google+ page; Virtual World Video
- Lauren is funny; Avatar Repertory Theater
Thanks for all those resources on Browser on a Prim (BOP.) I like to think of it as Media on a Prim (MOAP) because it's a funnier acronym. :-) Also thanks for al the resources and news you collect here. You are a fount of information, Selby!
ReplyDeleteThank you. I have been trying to make this blog a useful collection for people interested in virtual worlds.
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