2016 EDU: GAME: Anyone for dinosaurs? Hunt them, study them, make movies of them...

Anyone for dinosaurs?  
Hunt them, study them, make movies of them...

A new age of the dinosaurs has dawned in Open Simulator, a galaxy of low cost virtual worlds mostly connected by Hypergrid.  Here is your chance to start your dinosaur collection and enjoy immersion in the world of the dinosaurs.

• Velociraptor for Open Simulator
• Own your own dinosaur.  
• Cadged in your computer.
• Never needs feeding.
• Will not mess on your computer
• Start your own Zoo of Prehistory

This beautiful but scary dinosaur will wander around your property. By default this Velociraptor will move in a random walk, turning its head around to look for prey. It climbs like a mountain goat on steep terrain. It turns its head back and forth as it walks, opening its jaws to make dozens of different vocalizations. The legs are articulated to move in a realistic way. You can click on the Velociraptor to bring up a dialog to put it in Hunt, Migrate (it will walk in a straight line) Charge (run a short distance with jaws snapping) or Pose mode. In the latter mode it will stand still and let you change the head and leg position.-- Kayaker Magic 

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Timely Information

• Information which may be immediately important to some people
• The case of the vanishing suitcase

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2016 FUTURE: HG: Interview with Doug Maxwell Re: Browser-Based Viewer for OpenSim

Interview with Doug Maxwell Re:
Browser-Based Viewer for OpenSim

Dr. Doug Maxwell (Military Metaverse @ http://militarymetaverse.org) discusses his team's work on a browser-based viewer for OpenSim. Dr. Kay McLennan (@ the Tulane SCS Metaverse) is the interviewer.

• Watch on YouTube
• The interviewer had sound problems, but Maxwell has good sound.  Scroll ahead to about 1 min. 40 Sec.

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Lento Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 12/29, 7pm SLT

This week the Short Poetry Workshop presents the Lento, which is a 2-stanza poem with a fixed rhyme scheme that rhymes the first words of each line. There are several variations of the form so join us as we learn, write and share the Lento. 

• Short Poetry Workshop meets every Tuesday at 7 pm SLT 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

Timely Information

• Information which may be immediately important to some people
• The case of the vanishing suitcase

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 NEW: BIZ: HG: HGprojects organization? Do we have one? Do we need one?

HGprojects organization?  
Do we have one? Do we need one?
Updated 1/3/2016

The Hypergrid is made of a collection of people working together for mutual benefit.   Projects are emerging that are aimed specifically at benefiting the people of the HG.  There may be a benefit from creating an organization to help these projects work together.

Possible objectives for a HG Projects organization. 

• Identify target populations who might be attracted to what HG offers.
• Find ways of efficiently getting our message to these populations.
• Publicize and promote our attractive features to these target populations.
• Identify barriers that keep potential customers away from our businesses.
• Promote and fund steps to remove those barriers.
• Identify and promote ideas that benefit the development of the HG.
• Coordinate efforts, avoid duplication of effort,
• Ann Tree Prenyour comments on a "Hypergrid Chamber of Commerce"
• OpenSim Community: Should your grid have a Chamber of Commerce?

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Timely Information

• Information which may be immediately important to some people
• The case of the vanishing suitcase

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2016 HELP: HG: The case of the vanishing suitcase.

The case of the vanishing suitcases

Some people have lost suitcases from their inventories, apparently after a grid upgrade to OS 0.8.2.  The loss may be limited to the current Firestorm 32 bit version.  Workarounds are suggested.  

I have multiple reports of vanishing suitcases.  Many who travel the Hypergrid need the suitcase to carry things to and from other grids or even to read notecards in other grids.  If you get a notecard, you have to get it into your inventory and find it in order to read it.  

• Your suitcase. Just what you need to travel the hypergrid

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 VIDEO: P2P Virtual Flow- a Sevio film

Virtual Flow- a Sevio film

In a virtual world, you can shed your limitations.  You can do the impossible.   What can you do if you get used to doing the impossible?

• Watch on You Tube 
• UWA Video entries
• 6th UWA Grand Art Challenge and MachinimUWA VIII
• "I believe I can fly." UWA 3 Minute Thesis Speech by Jay Jay Jegathesan

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 EDU: Building and real estate commercials? Are you as smart as a 6th grader?

Building and real estate commercials?  
Are you as smart as a 6th grader?

Students (6th graders) designed and built homes in a virtual world.  They then studied real estate commercials and used their observations to write commercials about the virtual homes they had built.  A video is presented to show the homes they designed.

• Watch on YouTube
• Computer-assisted thinking

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 P2P: Sign of the Kite Newsletter. Kitely activities and events

Sign of the Kite Newsletter. 
Kitely activities and events.  

A few people in Kitely have started a newsletter about Kitely.  Here I report on the most recent issue and an idea it suggested.     

Kitely is part of the Hypergrid

• Kitely website:  https://www.kitely.com/
• Kitely Hypergrid address:  
• SOTK Newsletter 18 Dec 15
• Here come the kMOOKS
• Read the newsletter for links to a number of upcoming Mooks.
• If you form a kMOOK, I might be able to help on that.

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 ART: VIDEO: MachinimUWA VIII: Sevio's "Virtual Flow'

MachinimUWA VIII: Sevio's "Virtual Flow'

A video from the virtual worlds about how a virtual world makes possible what was impossible in the old world.  

• Watch on YouTube
• 2015 UWA Art challenge: developing exhibit, contributions open till Oct 31 

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 ART: PEOPLE: Virtual reality as the ultimate empathy machine

Virtual reality as
the ultimate empathy machine

Virtual reality can put you there.  You see the world of the person there.  You are in the shoes of the other person.  That changes how you feel about the world.  Writers take note.

• Watch on YouTube

Chris Milk uses cutting edge technology to produce astonishing films that delight and enchant. But for Milk, the human story is the driving force behind everything he does. In this short, charming talk, he shows some of his collaborations with musicians including Kanye West and Arcade Fire, and describes his latest, mind-bending experiments with virtual reality.

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 HELP: Useful solution rituals for virtual worlds and other digital equipment

Useful solution rituals for virtual worlds 
and other digital equipment

I started to put this advice in my main solutions page because it is so simple.  But it is so widely useful that I decided we would want to be able to link to it directly.  So it needs its own page.

For any digital equipment that stops working

• Turn it off.
• Disconnect it from power.
• Let it sit for a half-hour*
• Power it up and try again
• For routers and modems, do this to both.

*Ten seconds will probably work for most things.  But if you try 10 seconds and it does not solve the problem, you will wonder if 30 minutes would have worked.

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 HELP: ART: Where can I find builders on the Hypergrid?

Where can I find builders on the Hypergrid?

Builders coming to HG from SL want to meet other builders.  Here I give some suggestions on that and answer a few questions that newly arriving builders often ask.

• Do people sell in shops or in a market?
• Google Communities where you can meet Hypergridders
• How do people move move products from SL to Opensim?
• Are there sandboxes where I can build?
• How do I carry stuff from one grid to another?
• How do you travel on the hypergrid?
• How do I carry stuff from one grid to another?

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2016 BIZ: HOBBY: NEW: Themed grid: Vehicle lover's paradise. 10 miles of roadway on one sim.

Themed grid: Vehicle lover's paradise.  
10 miles of roads  on one big sim. 

A place for vehicles to roam.  OpenSim allows varregions--regions much larger than standard  This one is 7 old style sims on a side.   So the side is not 256 meters, but 1792 meters.  That is 1.792 kilometers, or a little over 1 mile on a side.  Pangea.

• A themed grid: Pangea.  This one for people who love vehicles.
• A themed grid can be tuned to fit the theme.
• For sailing, driving, flying (could be railroading, too).
• Sailing will need lots of water and maybe marked courses.
• Driving needs lots of roads with lots of variety. 
• Racing needs marked courses and timers.
• All of them need plenty of CPU time.  
• So you don't want lots of scripted objects using CPU time. 
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• Go there on the hypergrid.   
• HG Address:  login.digiworldz.com:8002:pangea 
• Put the HG address in the world Map, next to Find.  Click Find, TP

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Middle Lines Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 12/15, 7pm SLT 

This week the Short Poetry Workshop has a different kind of challenge. We’ll supply the first line of a poem, and the last line of a poem and you write the Middle lines. No more struggling to think of how to start or end a poem, because we’ve done that for you

• Short Poetry Workshop meets every Tuesday at 7 pm SLT 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 BIZ: PEOPLE: AnnT: Ann Tree Prenyour comments on a "Hypergrid Chamber of Commerce"--Or HGProjects

"Hypergrid Chamber of Commerce"

I called on the people in my head to develop plans for a Hypergrid Chamber of Commerce: the why, the what and the how.  Here I report the discussion in my head about HGProjects. 

Destination board for OSCC14
One element of HGProjects

OpenSimulator Community Conference 2014

• The destination board for OSCC was well designed.
• Located in the center of many sims.
• With standard signage.
• With teleports well organized.
• And destinations described by content.
• Just the kind of thing the HGProjects would do

When I heard that someone wanted an article from me about a Hypergrid Chamber of Commerce, I called on Ann Tree Prenyour, one of my head alts, to give some advice.
I report the discussion in my head after the break.
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(Updated from previous article posted in November-December issue of Visionz Magazine, an inworld magazine accessible at various placed on the Hypergrid.)
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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• The Grand Finale Winners announcements for MachinimUWA VIII:  
• Sunday 12/13 6AM SLT (note its AM!!) 

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2016 BIZ: FUT: Your clothing fashion in your hands, with help from your computer and a 3d printer. You choose, customize, or design.

Download your clothes.  
Your computer and 3d printer. 
You choose, customize, design.     

Your clothing fashion in your hands.  All it takes is a 3d printer with the right materials.  Materials that print like cloth.  Design it, wear it, sell it, sell computer files with designs customers can rework to their own tastes.  

• Watch on the TED site
• Danit Peleg

2015 HEAD: EDU: Life is your talents discovered. Or undiscovered. Your choice.

Life is your talents discovered.  
Or undiscovered.  Your choice.

The meaning of life is to discover and express your talents.  No one else can do that for you.

• Watch on YouTube

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

Next WIP show 

• Next WIP show: Dec 13
• Kayaker Magic holds a Zombie party.
• HG address below: paste into the World Map next to Find. Click Find, TP
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II 
• in Kitely: paste into Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter.
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/68/369/22

• The Grand Finale Winners announcements for MachinimUWA VIII:  
• Sunday 12/13 6AM SLT (note its AM!!) 

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 EDU: ART: UWA art 2015 exhibit selections and comments

UWA art 2015 exhibit selections and comments

Picture report with comments

UWA 3D Art Challenge

Overview

• UWA Art challenge: developing exhibit, contributions open till Oct 31
• UWA MachinimUWA VIII: Pursue Impossible
• PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• The Grand Finale Winners announcements for MachinimUWA VIII:  
• Sunday 12/13 6AM SLT (note its AM!!) 

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info