The secret world of the virtual. HGProject
A marketing video summarizing some of the things we do in virtual worlds. Recommended for people wondering about virtual worlds and people interested in marketing virtual worlds.
- Watch on YouTube
- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
- Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
- You may not see people in the video. But people made it.
- Video/Machinima in virtual worlds. Community, Market, Resources
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Help in a window
Need help in a window? Click on the question mark near the upper right corner (next to the - button).
- (More after the break)
- Where is Arcadia?
Tongue Twister Short Poetry Workshop-Tue, 3/29, 7pm SLT
This week the Short Poetry Workshop features “Tongue Twister” poetry with guest host Arabella Nemeth. Tongue Twisters are designed to cause the speaker to have trouble pronouncing all the words correctly. Since it’s almost April Fools, let’s see how tongue twisted we can get Arabella.
- 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
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What new people in virtual worlds usually want to know, links
- Virtual worlds, the myth of the steep learning curve
- How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser
- UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
- How to get into Second Life without really trying
- Top 5 Newcomer help posts from Virtual Outworlding
- Kitely academy. Let's think Hypergrid.
- Viewer
- You, appearance, profile
- Look around
- Moving and travel
- Animations
- People
- Communication: summary
- Babies, Pregnancy
- Groups
- Places
- Newcomer help; places, resources, and free stuff
- Entertainment
- Land and houses
- Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate
- Lindens
- Preferences
- Search
- Cautions
- Themes on this blog and how to find the relevant articles
- Ideas
- Basic Building in Virtual Worlds, by Linda Kellie
Virtual worlds: Other beginner help and promotional material
- Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
- Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
- Newcomer help in virtual worlds
- Beginner instructions for virtual worlds, another example
- Virtual world welcome points. Littlefield shows features to consider
- Virtual worlds, the myth of the steep learning curve
- Bringing people into virtual worlds--we are doing it backwards
- How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser
- UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
- FIRESTORM: Logging on to Kitely or another grid
- Top 5 Newcomer help posts from Virtual Outworlding
- Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College
Quick Trix
- Need help on a button? Hover the cursor over it, look for a yellow explanation.
- Need help in on a window? Click the question mark near the upper right corner
Grid welcome
Start
- Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College
- UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
- SL10B Help and how to
- How to get into Second Life without really trying
- World Map. Find your place in Second Life.
- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
- Connect with Second Life communities
- Basic skills in a virtual world (V3.2 and Phoenix)
- Linden Help Portal
- Appearance for beginners
- Help in languages other than English
- The secret of the right-click windows
- Defense against the Dark Arts Lag, griefing, damage, bugs
- Quick tricks for things you do often
Viewer and keyboard
- Viewer 3.3+ Preferences window, Summary
- Viewer 3.x help Summary
- Viewer 3.3.Main screen, marked for beginners
- Basic Camera Controls: See, Zoom, roam, and tag
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Third Party Viewer Directory
- Debug menu, find settings you may want
You and your stuff
- V3.2 Avatar button (M and F figures)--select
- V3.2 Appearance button (tee shirt)
- Your Stuff. Inventory
- Your things, your Lindens, your inventory
- Appearance, summary,
- V3.2 Profile Button (framed head)
- Managing resources in Virtual Worlds
Look around
- UWA offers free online courses to help newcomers start in virtual worlds
- See, Zoom, roam, and tag
- Camera Tutorial, zoom and roam
Moving and travel
- TRAVEL: Maps, Teleports and SLurls, travel in Second Life
- Tourist views of virtual worlds. Summary
- Move, Teleport, Travel, Fly. Sit
- Travel Secrets of Second Life
- How do I stop dancing (or any other animation)
- YavaScript pod tours
Animations
Communication
People
Groups
- Connect with Second Life communities
- Group chat: the etiquette
- How to use groups in Second Life, Summary
Places
- Where am I? Where do I want to be?
- Sex in Second Life. Get to Adult places.
- Home points and login settings
- V3.2 Places button (globe)
- V3.2 Map button (folded paper)
- V3.2 Picks button (pushpin)
- Search: find: friends, places, events in SL?
- Adjust the sunlight in your world to suit you
- Destination Guide (Second Life)
- Premium sandboxes
Helpers and free stuff
Entertainment
Land
- Job World, employment help. Learn the skills of finding a job. Any Job.
- Businesses in virtual worlds, beyond creators and entertainers. Summary
- Your things, your Lindens, your inventory
- Inworld Employment
- Premium perks add value to premium accounts
- Second Life : Basic or Premium?
Floating help
Need help on a button? Hover your cursor over it for a moment, look for a yellow explanation to pop up-
Help in a window
Need help in a window? Click on the question mark near the upper right corner (next to the - button).
Preferences
- Preferences window, Summary
- Preferences: General Preferences: Chat
- Music and video, hear and see
- Move, Teleport, Travel, Fly. Sit (Oct.) Preferences
- Preferences: Graphics Tab. Quality Versus Lag
- Preferences: Setup window. Bandwidth, auto-downloads
- Preferences, Privacy Preferences: Notices. Suggested starter setting.
Search
- Search: find: friends, places, events in SL
- World Map. Find your place in Second Life.
- How to search this blog and the Hobo Kit
Cautions
- Phishing scams on the web -- including virtual worlds
- Defense against the Dark Arts Lag, griefing, damage, bugs
- CAUTION. You can't buy to own
- CAUTION. Deeding land to a group
- Caution: What you need to know when you sell land
- Troubleshooting, cautions, getting help in SL. Summary
Art
- Virtual world welcome points. Littlefield shows features to consider
- Bringing people into virtual worlds--we are doing it backwards
News and Notes
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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.
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. Apr 10, Noon SLT
- Narasnook location (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- 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
- Narasnook location (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- 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 (fourth Sunday of the month)
- 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
- Next WIP show: Sun. Apr 10, Noon SLT
- Narasnook location (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- 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
- Narasnook location (second Sunday of the month)
- Pandora allows presenters to run high threat OSSL functions.
- 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 (fourth Sunday of the month)
- 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
- 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
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- Hypergrid Destinations
- 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
- 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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