2017 OSHG: The OSHG project joins forces with IMA

The OSHG project joins forces with IMA

The OSHG project started by Selby Evans under New Media Arts is merging with the newly formed organization, Infinite Metaverse Alliance (IMA).  Selby will continue to work on the project objectives as an adviser to IMA.  IMA is welcoming new members and seeking their advice. 

• Reminder: OSHG stands for OpenSimulator-HyperGrid. 
• The OSHG project was started by New Media Arts 
• in an effort to speed advances in OpenSim and the hypergrid.   
• HGProjects and the OSHG initiative. Summary, Fall 2016
• Infinite Metaverse Alliance (IMA) has similar objectives and more resources, 
• So it made good sense to join with them 
• I will continue to report on the OSHG objectives.
• And I will now report on other developments in IMA. 
• Full disclosure: I will be working with IMA as an adviser and promoter.
• I am an investor and could benefit financially if the business side becomes profitable
• This is not a business investment.  I would only recommend it to support OpenSim. 

You can be come a social member of IMA free. Just do any one of these things 

• Sign up for the IMA newsletter
• Join our G+ Community
• Follow our YouTube Channel
• Create an account on the IMA Test Grid #1
• Anyone interested in OpenSim--developing or using--is welcome to join.

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• NEW:  Infinite Metaverse Alliance, organization for the metaverse.
Want to try Halcyon?  Infinite Metaverse Alliance test grid 
• Cybalounge updated: now with voice!
• OSCC presentation videos available
• CRASH! Site, the musical under development by people like us
• Mal Burns: Inworld Review
• Try a browser-based virtual world
• Selby's daily news collection:  Virtual worlds are real   
• Virtual Outworlding 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
• Virtual world G+ communities:  Communities virtual worlds G+
• In a virtual world, your deodorant never fails.

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Projects that OSHG found to be important to the OpenSim community

• This list was developed by informal converstions and is not authoritative.
• Browser for OpenSimulator
• Web-based viewer (see report below)
• Close cooperation between third-party viewer developers and the OS Developers
• Improved physics engine
• Documentation for OpenSimulator.
• Road-map for future development of OpenSimulator.  

Progress on web-based viewer, now called web-worlds

• A proposal for a web-world to support nonprofits in virtual worlds
• How will web-worlds from OpenSim start? The reception room model
• Browser-viewer, progress and possibilities: Summary
• Browser-viewer imaginary use case: Entertainment
• Early demo meeting in Cybalounge. Not your father's virtual world
• Marcus Milne talks about his worlds on the web
• WebGL, WebGL frameworks, and BabylonJS. Virtual world terms for the future
• A Virtual World in your Browser by Edward Tarber
• Worlds in your browser. The worlds of WebGL are coming
• "The future of Halcyon and browser-based worlds" Invited post by Shelenn Ayres
• Imagining the browser-viewer: A wormhole connecting the WWW to the virtual worlds

Articles about the OSHG project.

• OSHG development: OSHG Committee begins to form, New Media Arts plans. HGProjects
• Mal Burns show, 10/9/2016. The OSHG project. Don Smith and Selby Evans
• What criteria would a non-profit use to select OSHG projects to fund? HGProjects
• Preliminary objectives for subcommittees. Invited post by Don Smith and Selby Evans. HGProjects
• OSHG development committee: Planning for OpenSimulator/Hypergrid development. HGProjects
• Comments on OSHG Development (collection 2). HGProjects
• Useful discussion of the OSHG project started by FreakyTech
• Exploratory project by NMA: Future of Open-Source Virtual Worlds
• HGProjects and the OSHG initiative. Summary, Fall 2016
• Foundation for the future of the OpenSim community
• Early demo meeting in Cybalounge. Not your father's virtual world
• OpenSim - What it will take to get into prime time? By Steve LaVigne. HGProjects

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News and Notes

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. Feb. 26, Noon SLT 
• Cokie II Location: (fourth Sunday of the month)
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• Pandora 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
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• 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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