2017 OSHG: TECH: WebGL, WebGL frameworks, and BabylonJS. Virtual world terms for the future

WebGL, WebGL frameworks, and BabylonJS.  
Virtual world terms for the future
Updated 2/4/2017

Babylon.js is being used to put virtual worlds in a browser.  Here are are web resources to get up to speed on Babylon.js.

• OSHG Articles on this blog 
• Cybalounge updated: now with voice!
• Webworld alert: CybaLounge test. This is a test of putting a webworld in a blog
• How will web-worlds from OpenSim start? The reception room model
• Web-worlds, progress and possibilities: Summary

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List of WebGL frameworks

Frameworks are available to create WebGL content quickly and easily without building from the ground up.

Babylon.js

A complete JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML5, WebGL and Web Audio

Babylon.js documentation

Nothing needs to be installed on your computer to develop programs with BabylonJS. Nothing needs to be installed by the client to run your program. You can see this excess of simplicity in our Getting Started tutorial just below! Then find out more and get an overview of possibilities by checking out the documentation map.

Babylon.js tutorials 

• 75 tutorials

Introduction to WebGL 3D with HTML5 and Babylon.js

Do you have a great idea for a 3D game? If you want to build it with the same open source framework used to create Assassin's Creed Pirates, check out this exciting course! Babylon.js is a free, open source gaming framework that streamlines WebGL functionality. Use it to create 3D games and apps which work on every browser that has a GPU device.

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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. 
• Everyone is invited.  Building, scripting, promotion, entertainment-- whatever you are working on.
• Selby will be doing test video capture of presentations in voice.  These may be posted on YouTube.

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• 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. Jan 22, Noon SLT 
• Cookie II location (fourth 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 

• Glimpses of Hypergrid Work-in-Progress (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

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• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community   
• HYPERGRID EVENTS   
• Hypergrid Destinations
• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog

HG links-- depending on your interests 

• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how
• About  education
• About art
• Dinosaur
• Sailing in virtual worlds
• About Videos
• Sights of the virtual worlds
• People of the virtual worlds
• About business  
• The incomplete works of Ann Tree Prenyour
• Outworldz One-Click Hypergrid  (Install your own HG)
• Binder's OSWorlds Stats and Status (past week)
• Google Calendar tutorial (Used for notices of HG events)
• Hypergrid Tour 2016-01-- 167 virtual worlds
• Sign of the Kite
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents

Communities in the virtual worlds

• Arcadia Asylum All Around   
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
• G+ community: Metaverse Tours
• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid
• Best metaverse communities 

Radio in the virtual worlds

• OpenSimWorkingRadioStreams (OSWRS). Invited article by shawnkmaloney
• Aviation radio: Music to fly by. And to promote your aviation event.
• Radio for your place - Radio for the metaverse. Anyone for podcasts?

Metaverse beginner help

• NMA entry path 
• 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/zone into Google search to get your time 

Schools in virtual worlds

• Heritage Christian Online School
• HCOS Brochure

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