Virtual Worlders are violating the time line.
We must expect problems with time and place.
We must expect problems with time and place.
Virtual Worlders have moved into the 21st century. For the most part the old world remains in the 20th century. The residents of the metaverse live in a different world. A different space-time field. We move around in our virtual world in seconds. We pay practically nothing for our travel. To make a 10 am meeting, we leave at three minutes to ten. Back in the last century, people watched that kind of thing on Star Trek and thought it was fiction.-
Back then, people thought it was science fiction when doors slid open as people approached them. That door trick actually reached the old world back toward the end of the last century (probably with a boost from Star Trek), so even the old people nowadays would run into the entry door of the grocery store if it did not open for them.
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Google+ invitations have managed partial adjustment: You can set up a a Google Calendar to show a fixed time zone, such as California time. That helps those of us who have become bi-temporal (moving easily between old world time and grid time).
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But try to give a location for your event and Google maps will think it is in San Francisco or wherever the grid is located. I wonder what they will do when the event is on the Space Station.
With the aid of Firestorm, you can post good ingrid locations in the form of Firestorm hops. You get a Firestorm hop to your current location (coordinates and all) by clicking on the Nav (top) bar in Firestorm and copying what appears in the Nav bar. That hop is text and you can post it on a web page. Anyone using Firestorm can paste it into the Nav bar and enter to go to the location.
That arrangement lets me put a location in my blog and tell people the exact location. Even on the little 256X256 sims, that is what people need to locate the place easily. With the bigger sims, people would give up looking if they did not have the coordinates.
But Firestorm Hops only work within grid. If there is a Hypergrid teleport involved, that does not work except once in a while. Here are the instructions I use to get people to the WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely:
- Imagination is not the opposite of reality. Imagination is the future of reality.
Take away notes
- There are 24 time zones. 9 pm. happens 24 times every day.
- If you want new worlders to come to your party, give them a way to know the time.
- There are 200-300 grids on the hypergrid.
- If you don't give the HG address of your grid, people can't HG to your place.
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- (More after the break)
- Where is Arcadia?
Take Five Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 9/20,7PM SLT
This week at the Short Poetry Workshop we’re doing Take Five. Everyone is given 5 words to use in a poem. Use any poetry form including free verse. The group will then chose 5 more words to use in the next poem. It’s great fun to see how everyone writes different styles using the same 5 words. So join us this week to learn, write and share your Take Five.
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Metaverse events, current and upcoming
- OpenSim conference calls for proposals
- Mal Burns: Inworld Review
- Selby's daily news collection: Virtual worlds are real
- AvatarFest 2016: Sept 30-Oct 2
- Kitely adds events calendar to login page
- 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
- In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.
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The new worlds of the 21st century
In the 21st century, concepts like place and time have changed. We of the metaverse understand that events on the internet do not have geo-coordinates; they have urls. And events in virtual worlds have no geo-coordnates; they have grid coordinates. Such events do not have clock times; they have grid times.- Time conversion: put time/zone into Google search to get your time
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Google+ invitations have managed partial adjustment: You can set up a a Google Calendar to show a fixed time zone, such as California time. That helps those of us who have become bi-temporal (moving easily between old world time and grid time).
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But try to give a location for your event and Google maps will think it is in San Francisco or wherever the grid is located. I wonder what they will do when the event is on the Space Station.
Coping with locations in the new world
There are some partial solutions to the location problem. Second Life has an excellent solution in the form of SLurls. You can put these on an web page as hyperlinks and people can just click on them to go there.With the aid of Firestorm, you can post good ingrid locations in the form of Firestorm hops. You get a Firestorm hop to your current location (coordinates and all) by clicking on the Nav (top) bar in Firestorm and copying what appears in the Nav bar. That hop is text and you can post it on a web page. Anyone using Firestorm can paste it into the Nav bar and enter to go to the location.
That arrangement lets me put a location in my blog and tell people the exact location. Even on the little 256X256 sims, that is what people need to locate the place easily. With the bigger sims, people would give up looking if they did not have the coordinates.
But Firestorm Hops only work within grid. If there is a Hypergrid teleport involved, that does not work except once in a while. Here are the instructions I use to get people to the WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely:
- Web address:
- https://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/NewMediaArts-CTO/Cookie-II
- HG: Paste the line below into the world map next to Find. Click Find, TP.
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- Arrive: Walk into the Hobo Sandbox door at the Arrival Center
- or use the Firestorm Hop now that you are in Kitely.
- Paste Firestorm Hop in Nav (top) bar of Firestorm, Enter
- Firestorm Hop: hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/56/377/22
Related
- Report from Starfleet Astraios, July 2015, Stardate redacted.
- Starfleet Astraios, in the Gamma quadrant. Roleplaying.
- Mall owners, venue owners, anyone looking for traffic: Your parcel is not my parcel
- HGProject: Travelling with Firestorm. Local, nearby, ingrid, Hypergrid, summary
- Your suitcase. Just what you need to travel the hypergrid.
- A collection of hypergrid information for newcomers and those coming in from closed virtual worlds. (Firestorm)
- Travel Secrets of Second Life
- Exploring the Hypergrid: tours, destinations, addresses, communication.
- Tips for tour travel on the Hypergrid
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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.
Next WIP show
- Next WIP show: Sun. Sept 25, Noon SLT
- 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
- 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. Sept 25, Noon SLT
- 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
- 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
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HG links-- depending on your interests
- Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
- Sign of the Kite
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- 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
- Sign of the Kite
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- 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
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