2016 HG: NEW: Inventory: ingrid and hypergrid. Firestorm

Inventory, ingrid and hypergrid.  Firestorm

How to manage your inventory and inventory window on your home grid and on hypergrid trips.

• What are: Hypergrid? OpenSim? Virtual worlds?
• Firestorm inventory documentation.
• Don't try to learn everything at once.  Review documentation every so often.
• You will learn something new on each review.

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• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

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2016 HELP: Constipated Computer from virtual worlds? Try this

Constipated computer from virtual worlds?  Try this

Does your computer slow down after a  time in a virtual world?  Maybe it is not an overheated graphics board.   The is a bug in many viewers that can leave a lot of processes running on your computer.  Enough can slow your computer.  Here are 2 suggestions for a fix.

Problem

• Symptom: computer slows over time in a virtual world.
• Cause: Accumulation of llcceflib_host processes.
• Known bug: http://jira.phoenixviewer.com/browse/FIRE-17876
• The llcceflib_host processes persist when the viewer closes.

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Dizain Short Poetry Workshop, Tue 6/28, 7pm SLT

The Short Poetry Workshop this week presents the Dizain, which is a 15th century French form with 8 or 10 lines of 8 or 10 syllables per line.and two rhyme scheme options. 

Location link: click to go or drag to the Viewer screen:

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

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• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

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2016 PEOPLE: ART: Pepperland II, Yellow Submarine, surrealism, installation art in a 3D virtual world

Pepperland II, Yellow Submarine: 
surrealism, installation art in a 3D virtual world

Pepperland in a 3D virtual world.  Pepperland II in Littlefield grid is based on the 1968 ground breaking animated cartoon, 'Yellow Submarine'.  This installation art recreates scenes from the 1968 musical fantasy Yellow Submarine, an animated film based on the songs of the Beatles. 

You can ride on these yellow submarines

Go there

• Put the HG address in the Word Map, Find Bar.  Click Find, TP
• HG Address:  lfgrid.com:8002:Pepperland II
• In Littlefield grid, find Pepperland II on the world map, teleport.

Pepperland II, background

• Surrealism 
• Installation art
• Yellow Submarine (Animated film)
• Yellow Submarine: a walk in Pepperland

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• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

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2016 BIZ: PEOPLE: HG: Planning for HG Welcome Centers, Kitely and elsewhere. Outline and summary. HGProjects

Planning for HG Welcome Centers, Kitely/elsewhere. 
Outline and summary. HG projects
Updated 8/12/2016

Kitely is currently  redesigning its Welcome center.  The welcome center for a grid makes the first impression for most visitors and so is critically important in determining whether they stay.  The welcome centers for the HG grids are important in determining the growth of the Hypergrid.  All of us interested in the growth of the HG have a stake in the effectiveness of welcome centers.   This report summarises ideas about designing effective welcome centers.

Who would care and why?

• The owners and operators of the grid want more people.
• Merchants and venue operators want more customers.
• Established residents and Welcomers usually want more people in the grid.  
• Communities want more people in their community.
• Venture capitalists (VCs) want to see an attractive entrance.
• New arrivals want to find things that fit their interests.

Three main kinds of newcomers to HG

• From closed virtual worlds, exploring the hypergrid.  
• From the outworld, exploring virtual worlds
• From the outworld, exploring a community.
• Community entry: NMA low tech entry path for starting in Hypergrid
• Bringing new people into virtual worlds? Bring them in via Cookie II or use the NMA method on your own site 

Entry model (for grids and communities alike)

• Feeder sites: attract and link to main web page. 
• Entry web page: show how to enter and get started.
• Welcome site: help for newcomers to the  grid or community.
• Community: show activities they can start immediately or soon.
• Example: NMA low tech entry path for starting in Hypergrid.

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• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

2016 BIZ: HG: Can a new grid get started on the HG now? Comments by Ann Tree Prenyour

Can a new grid get started on the HG now?  
Comments by Ann Tree Prenyour

• I saw a query about a fairly new grid struggling to get started.
• Content creators won't go there because not enough residents.
• Residents won't go there because not enough content.  
• A common startup problem in a new form. 
• I had a chat with Ann Tree Prenyour about that.

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• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

2016 ART: WRITE: All my boats. Installation art, poetic art by Karima Hoisan

All my boats. Installation art, poetic art 
by Karima Hoisan.   

Images from the installation and poetic art of Karima Hoisan.  And some background about installation art and poetic art.

Go there

• In Kitely: put the Firestorm Hop in the Nav bar (top of FS viewer), enter.
• FS Hop: hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/All My Boats/186/138/22
• On Hypergrid, put HG address in Find bar of the world map, click Find, TP
• HG address:  grid.kitely.com:8002:All My Boats

Installation art (virtual)

Art created in a large virtual space.  The art may use the changing views produced as the observer moves through the space and the changing shadows with sun angle.  Virtual installation could be used to show how a real installation would look if built. 

Installation art (physical)

Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called public art, land art or intervention art; however, the boundaries between these terms overlap.

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• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

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2016 TECH: A 360 degree video demo showing the use of virtual reality for video production.

A 360 degree video demo showing 
the use of virtual reality for video production.

The 360 degree video is opening to the mass market, now that YouTube will play it.   Here is a demo of what it is like.  

• Watch on YouTube
• For best viewing, activate full screen and use the WASD keys to control camera view.
• If the 360 view does not work properly in your viewer, Watch on YouTube

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• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

2016 PEOPLE: ART: SL13B in full swing

SL13B in full swing

The  celebration of the 13 anniversary of Second Life is reported in this article.

Arrival

Click image to enlarge

Go there

• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SL13B%20Impressive/127/187/126
• SLurl: Drag the slurl to your viewer screen, follow instructions. 

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Matariki: Pleiades Short Poetry Workshop, Tue 6/21, 7pm SLT

Tēnā koutou: This week the Short Poetry Workshop celebrates the Māori New Year – Matariki. The Matariki star cluster is known as Pleiades in the Northern Hemisphere. Guest host Ngagpa Writer will introduce the Pleiades which is a 7-line poem. Each line starts with the same first letter of the title word.

Location link: click to go or drag to the Viewer screen:

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

***2016 EDU: Studio X, the future of Air Force education Integrated Learning Environment with virtual world capabilities

Studio X, the future of Air Force education   
Integrated Learning Environment 
with virtual world capabilities 

The Integrated Learning Environment (ILE) is open source, Air Force owned, and consists of  a curriculum delivery  platform, a collaboration platform, and a virtual world capability.  The ILE is operational since January, 2016.   The video here reports on the concept and initial plans.   

• Watch on YouTube

Go there via hypergrid

• HG address:  http://soc.austudiox.com/
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map. Click Find, TP
• This location presently (June, 2016) has an auditorium.
• It may be of interest now only for events.  
• In the future it may serve as part of the collaboration platform. 
• As in the Global Learning Forum, in which this video was presented.
• STUDIOX Global Learning Forum
• The Air University
• The Air University SOC StudioX Portal
• Studio X, the future of AF education, eXperience learning wherever and whenever.
• The key to whenever and wherever is distance learning.
• A virtual world capability offers experience learning where appropriate.

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• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

PROMO: WRITE: HYPERGRID: Send G+ communities your blog links. Tell a community about your article

Send G+ communities your blog links.  
Tell a community about your article

If you blog, you have a target audience.  G+ communities may be gathering your audience for you.  Here are some G+ communities I have found useful in promoting articles about virtual worlds.

Posting to G+ communities

• I post to my G+ profile stream, then go to the profile and share. 
• I can share with G+ communities and to my circles.
• Some blogging software supports auto-posting, which may be a bit easier.
• I use Feedly to follow these communities and link to other posts sometimes
• I use my profile stream to collect links. 
• I go to my profile stream and send links to groups that might be interested.
• Links to my articles and links to other articles.
• I don't send every link to every group that might be interested.
• Just one or two groups per link.   If anyone wants more links, 
• they can look on my profile stream.

Search on page

• You can search this or any webpage for words of phrases,
• In Chrome, press Ctrl f to open the search bar (upper right).
• Other viewers probably offer this service, too, maybe with the same Ctrl f.
• You can use this on the list of G+ communities, too.
• If you don't find the community you want, maybe you should create it.

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• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

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2016 PEOPLE: Connecting in Kitely. And why communities are important. Invited article by Freda Frostbite

Connecting in Kitely.

And why communities are important.

Invited article by Freda Frostbite (stephanie mesler)

Freda Frostbite (stephanie mesler)  tells us why she likes to be in virtual worlds.

 

Freda Frostbite

Virtual Worlds are full of pretty places, interesting builds, remarkable creativity. They have the power to dazzle but bedazzlement is temporary. Even beauty gets boring after awhile. If there is nothing more than cool stuff to look at, then there is not enough to anchor us in our metaversical lives. We are quick to logout and, sometimes, never return. In the end, it is the same thing that keeps us connected to our solid world communities that keeps us connected in virtual worlds too; it is the experiences we share with other people and the bonds we forge with them that keep us coming back.
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• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

2016 BIZ: PEOPLE: Land for rent in Kitely on a rural residential sim. Ann Tree Prenyour comments

Land for rent in Kitely on a rural residential sim. 
Ann Tree Prenyour comments

Ann Tree Prenyour has been bugging me to write an article about land rentals on the hypergrid, so I was glad to find a rental offering by Ozwell Wayfarer.   Here I give a brief report of the offer and then a transcript of my discussion with Ann.  

Go there

• Worlds End Estates - Oakwood: Kitely Page
• Firestorm hop--in Kitely, put the hop in the Nav bar of the viewer, enter
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Worlds End Estates - Oakwoods/208/229/26
• HG address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Worlds End Estates - Oakwoods
• Put the HG address in the find bar of the World Map.  Click Find, TP
• Ozwell Wayfarer
• "Spaces for 10 homes, starting from $1USD/300KC/month!"
• "Fees payable in Kitely Credits s or USD+10% to cover PayPal fees."
• "Come see our great prices and generous prim allowances!"
• "A rural-themed residential sim."

Ann Tree Prenyour

• The people in your head. Be everyone you can be 
• Ann is one of the people in my head, people who help me write articles.

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• Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
• A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came online.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in  Selby's daily news collection.

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Selby's daily news collection
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Sign of the Kite 
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• New Kitely login splash page (not for logging in)
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

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