2018 HG: IMA: Virtual Worlds Fair: Events Venue

Virtual Worlds Fair Events Venue and Kiosk
Updated Feb 17, 2018

Presenting plans to promote events in Hypergrid worlds.  The Event Venue will present available entertainment and support services for entertainers on the Hypergrid.  The Kiosk displays seven ways to learn about events on the Hypergrid. It will be prominent at the Event Venue and available for anyone to take and display.  

Kiosk for Events in Hypergrid
Click the hat for notecard

VWF event kiosk

• Shows web pages designed to help people find events on the Hypergrid.
• MOAP displays of these web pages
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Shawn's calendar: Agenda form
• Shawn's calendar: Calendar form
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Promotion for virtual worlds and everything in 'em
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• Promo package: Full perm copies of the Kiosk.  
• This Kiosk will be a centerpiece of the VWF Events venue.
• We hope people will pick it up and display it elsewhere.
• The kiosk is presently located at my place on Kitely:
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Creative Collaborators
• I intend it to be full perm.   But we all know about permissions problems.

VWF events venue

• Objective:  Help people find, and visit Hypergrid events they like.
• Symbiotic objective: Promote entertainment on the Hypergrid.

Background

• Virtual Worlds Fair, OSCC Venues, exhibit locator
• HG Chamber of Commerce: How about a Virtual Worlds Fair?
• Avacon
• HG Chamber of Commerce 
• Virtual Worlds Fair has an initial site: OSCC, Thirza's HG exhibit

Visit the OSCC fairgounds:

• HG address:
• cc.opensimulator.org:8002:OSCC Expo Zone 2
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of your world map.  Click Find, TP
• Hypergrid Chamber of Commerce

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Suggested exhibit Kiosk

• Landmark giver 
• Web page opener to relevant web page.*
• Relevant Calendar (MOAP as poster)*
• Notecard giver: description of event* 
• *These should include HG address in general form
• General form is like this:  
• cc.opensimulator.org:8002:OSCC Expo Zone 2
• Free gift carrying notecard and LM. 
• Wearable gifts are especially useful for promotion.
• Teleport to event location. 
• Be sure your kiosk promotes from above, not just from the sides.
• Lots of people fly or cam from above.
• Stores: lose the roof, put a sign on the floor

Clusters of kiosks by service   

• Clusters are intended to help visitors find what they are looking for.
• Promotion:  instruction, web links to instruction, talent agents.
• Regular events and venues: location, schedule, calendars.
• Special events: links to web sites that list these, calendars.
• Outfitters: avatars, instruments:  Links to market place and stores.
• Music streaming help:  Instructions and servers
• Available talent: Singers, musicians, comedy acts, game shows.

Suggestions for venues with upcoming events

• If you are promoting something, develop your digital savvy.
• Include a web link to your page and landmarks to your Hypergrid place.
• Landmarks stay with people, so they can use them later.
• On your web page, include the HG address to your place.
• Never depend on textures to offer HG addresses.  They don't copy/paste.
• Use the general form of HG addresses.   On Kitely, that is in your web page.
• It looks like this: cc.opensimulator.org:8002:OSCC Expo Zone 2
• Do not give Firestorm hops.  
• They only work in Firestorm and are reliable only on the local grid.
• Do not offer HG addresses that start with http//
• That looks like a web address, but does not work in a browser.
• New people will try it in the browser and conclude it does not  work.
• Mall owners, venue owners, anyone wanting traffic: Your parcel is not my parcel

Radio sources and methods 

• OpenSim Radio Stations (web links):  Outworldz, OSWRS
• Radio for your place - Radio for the metaverse. Anyone for podcasts?

VWF events venue at OpenSim.Life

• Bill Blight has generously provided a 2x2 region for the venue.
• HG address:
• OpenSim.Life:8002:VWF Events
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of your world map.  Click Find, TP
• This venue is under preliminary development now.
• If you are interested in helping to develop this event venue contact me.
• I am Selby Evans in Kitely or OpenSim.Life.
• This is a project of the Hypergrid Chamber of Commerce.

Eventorator at OSL

Starting VWF Events Venue

Eventorator in Cybalounge

• CybaLOUNGE is a user-built 3D virtual place running in a browser.
• I will build an eventorator there to show visitors events on the Hypergrid.
• Here is the sign it will have:

Eventorator 

Hypergrid Events

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License

• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.

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If you are interested in web-worlds...

• Drop by my web office.
• My office times:  Weekdays: 12: -12:30 Central time  (US) 
• Maybe weekends, too.  Other times by appointment. 
• My web office: Cybalounge.
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  If you don't see me:
• Click the pointed pushpin on the bottom line 
• See if I am in Selby's room.. 
• We can also visit WebWorldz, a professionally-built world if you want. 
• Thinkerer Melville in Second Life, Selby Evans in Kitely
• A web page you can walk into
• Try a browser-based virtual world
• Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions