2016 BIZ: Virtual worlds for business and research. Real estate, models, estates, interiors, architects, interior decorators.

Virtual worlds for business.  
Real estate, model, estates, interiors.
Architects, interior decorators, city planners

A review of some outworld uses for inworld building

Is this interior decorating?

• Show your customers what your proposed plan will look like.
• Not with just a drawing.  Not with just a watercolor. 
• A virtual house.  A virtual estate.  
• They can walk through the house you are offering.
• They can walk around the estate you are selling
• CommonFloor Introduces Virtual Reality for consumers in Real Estate 

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• (More after the break)
• Where is Arcadia?

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• OpenSim Treasure Hunt. Jan 31 to March 1. An HGProject
• Hypergrid: Upcoming: Opportunities and events
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely
• Selby's daily news collection

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Virtual worlds already show homes and gardens

• Oregon State University. Dorms in a holodeck
• Save sim space with a Holodeck 
• Housing choices in a holodeck, virtual worlds
• Drax Files: World Makers: interior design magazine in digital universe
• Businesses in virtual worlds, beyond creators and entertainers. Summary
• Changing your home? Try virtual reality
• Gardens and homes. The decorator story. And how it could become a business.

Build the house of the future in the metaverse?

• Redesigning services for the future
• Trick 3D unveils virtual floorplan app

The house of the future in the world of the past

• Monsanto House of the Future
• Living Tomorrow: house of the future 
• Smart house of the future
• 5 Things You Can Expect From the House of the Future
• What will the house of the future be like? House of the Future Is Here Today (or was there yesterday)

The buildings of the past in the world of the future

• Digital models as research tools in buildings archaeology

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News and Notes

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Tuesdays + Sundays

• 1 - 3 am PST - 10:00 am CET - 9 am GMT
• 8 - 10 am PST - 17:00 pm CET - 4 pm GMT
• A weekly repeating event. At HG Welcome Center.
• Everyone welcome, no matter which language. We got translators
• Hypergrid address: arcana.hopto.org:9021
• Put HG address in World Map next to Find. Click Find. TP.

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The Hypergrid WIP Show

The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. All builders from beginner to pro are invited.  Presentations are in voice and text.  For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat.  Voice presentations may be captured in video.  Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog and elsewhere.

Next WIP show 

• Next WIP show: Sun. Feb 28, Noon SLT
• Location: Cookie II

• Narasnook  location
• world.narasnook.com:8900
• Put the line above in your World Map next to Find.  Click Find. TP
• At Narasnook, use World Map to search for Pandora

• Cookie II location
• 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

Previous Articles from the WIP show 

• WIP Show: How to with NPC, Nara Malone. Storytelling of the future
• WIP on Cookie II, Kitely, 9/20 Dolls, Discos, and Discussion
• WIP August 23, A conversation about being creative
• 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

Entertainment on the Hypergrid

• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hypergrid Destinations

HG links-- depending on your interests 

• Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
• HOW TO HYPERGRID
• Sign of the Kite
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Maria's OS grid survey, 2015
• Best metaverse communities   
• Top avatar outfitters on the hypergrid
• Arcadia Asylum All Around   
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
• G+ community: Metaverse Tours
• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid

Metaverse beginner help

• How to Enter Kitely Virtual Worlds
• Metaverse 101 Info + Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Fr43k Paine/Dealing With Griefers
• 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

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