2017 OSHG: Road map to joining web-worlds to OpenSim

Road map to joining web-worlds to OpenSim

A road map tells you how you will get from where you are to where you want to go, noting the main intermediate milestones.  (A road map is not a timeline.) Here I note the major events I expect we will see along the way.

Drop by and let's talk

• Web-world under development
• I am there almost every day from 10-10:30 am. California time.
• If there are people there to talk, I can usually stay longer.
• Follow our development here:  Our web discussion community
• Feel free to ask questions or make suggestions.

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How do web-worlds relate to the user-built virtual worlds?

No technical connection, but strong people connection

• User-built virtual worlds have a lots of capable people.
• People who already know the value of virtual worlds.  
• If you know HTML5, JavaScript, and COLLADA, 
• you can probably build your own web-world.
• Additional resources are reported here:
• WebGL, WebGL frameworks, and BabylonJS.

Coming soon: OAR to web-world

• In OpenSim, you can save your virtual world to an OAR file.
• It is technically possible to convert an OAR file to a web-world.
• Just the build, not the scripts.  You would have to redo those.
• And not all the objects we put in our virtual worlds.
• Just a selected subset.  Browsers have memory limits. 
• Will I be able to move my OpenSim world to a web-world?
• New tool coverts OpenSim regions to mesh.
• BabylonJS documentation
• The Quick Learn Way to Creating a 3D Object With BabylonJS
• This would create a welcome world for your virtual world community.
• You won't be satisfied.  But you could meet people there.
• Show them what your OpenSim world has to offer.
• Even help them get a viewer and come into your grid.

Coming later, Kitely Market could connect to web worlds.

• If there were enough web-worlds they could create a market for virtual goods.
• Kitely Market could sell virtual goods to web worlds.  
• Sure there are technical details to be worked out.  
• Kitely has plenty of tech capability.
• But they would not put an effort on that unless they see a market.
• With Kitely Market, you could furnish a web-world quickly.

Communities and grids use web-worlds for marketing

• You can put your web-world on any web page
• One web-world can offer teleports to other web-worlds.
• I imagine a cooperative web-world, maybe set up by a grid.
• One entrance, perhaps with links to other web-worlds in that grid.
• Perhaps there would be hosts at the entrance part of the time.
• Each community would host a web-marketing site. 
• Built out of the best parts of the community grid.
• The community site could offer videos or narrations.
• The site might have a click for help button. 
• Hosts could be available to tell people about the community.
• And the big virtual worlds in the grid.  

Web-worlds could manage download and registration in a grid

• The site would offer a button to download and install the viewer.
• Firestorm has already cut out some of the geekery on its installation.
• A grid promotion site would have its own customized viewer. 
• And registration fields easily accessed from the web-world. 
• The customized viewer would already be preset for the grid.  
• The grid could open immediately for the new person.  
• While the person is still in the web-world.  

Related

• Articles about web-worlds in this Blog

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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

• Cancelled -- Mothers's Day Next WIP show: Sun. May 14 Noon SLT 
• Pandora Location: (second Sunday of the month)

• 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

• 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

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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