2020 WW: Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary

Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds 
running in a browser: Summary
Updated 7/27/2020

Two browser-based 3D virtual worlds are now in public beta.  Both are ready for initial use.  CybaLOUNGE  has an educational project in the initial production stage.  3DWebWorldz is presently seeking museum content as part of its preparation for educational services. 

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• Yes, we can put 3D virtual worlds into a browser.
• You have an avatar that represents you. You talk with the other people there.
• You walk around. You look around.
• You can notice that the 3D world shows you a lot more than a web page.
• Because you can see things at a distance and walk up to see them better.
• You do this with just your browser.  The same way you read your email.
• No software to install.   Move with your arrow keys, talk with the press of a button.
• Use a low-cost computer, Chromebook, or even a modern tablet.
• Web-worlds are easy to get to. Here are a couple of examples.
• The Metaverse Coming to a Web Page Near you!
• Web-worlds as gateway to OpenSimulator
• Onbording plan from web-worlds to installed virtual worlds
• Bringing OpenSim and web-worlds together: Web-world on the landing page
• Milestone: Oars transferred from OpenSim to 3DWebWorldz
• Importing OAR files from OpenSim to Web Worlds: Convoar
• Social 3D and all that other stuff (VR, Virtual Worlds, etc)
• Use social 3D on the web: what you need to know
• Bring yourself into a web-world: Get an avatar that looks like you
• INP- tour of a web-based interface to virtual worlds
• Facebook group replaces G+: 3D web-worlds of the browser
• VWMOOC19: Web-worlds for education. Cybalounge, 3DWebWorldz
• Search on Page: Crtl+f opens search bar (up). 
• BTW: Marcus Milne and Threedium: a progress update on another web-world

3DWebWorldz

• A 3d place in your browser. As easy as going to a web page because it is a web page. Live music, writers, videos, meetings, comedy.
• 3DWebWorldz 
• 3DWebWorldz News & Support
• You can visit either of these as a guest, without registering.

Cybalounge

• A plan for a field trip to CybaLOUNGE. Getting in is too easy. It would also be quick if I didn't talk so much.
• Cybalounge wiki 
• Metaverse Software (the company)
• 3DWW is social VW. How to start
• CybaLOUNGE login 
• How to put 3D on your website

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Web-worlds

• Architects can put a building on the web
• Artists can put installation art there.
• Museums can put a display there.
• Imagination can put anything there. 
• 2018 NMC Horizon Report

Cybalounge

• Educator group visits CybaLOUNGE for a presentation by the developer. CybaLOUNGE: user-managed digital world in a browser
• Teacher visit to CybaLOUNGE, a 3D world in a browser. Just like a web page except you walk into it. Notes and teacher's tools
• CybaLOUNGE is a user-built web-world.  
• It has (or is developing) the tools for building 3D places by people with 3D building skills.
• Experienced builders in virtual worlds in mesh could build in Cybalounge.
• Cybalounge is suited for educators who want to manage their teaching place.
• And for student presentation projects.
• And for creative people who can use it as a hobby. 
• CybaLOUNGE Screen, navigation, and starter help. Summary
• What is Cybalounge? Where is it going?
• Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions
• What guests can do in Cybalounge and how. Tutorial
• Cybalounge: FAQ with search on page (in Chrome)
• Visitor's guide to Cybalounge. Yes, Cybalounge is ready to welcome visitors
• Web-world development 2017: Dev/users bi-weekly meeting, Fridays
• Provide a direct link to your region. Bypass the general entry page

CybaLOUNGE projects

• Metaverse School GmbH @ Berlin Change Days 2019. Web classes in a German university

Use cases for Cybalounge

• A workgroup at work in a digital place. We travel the web. Less travel time, more work time. What workgroup work is not talk?
• Euroversity asks: Christel Schneider answers: Why do you use virtual worlds in education?
• VWMOOC18 August 29th A Visit to A Web-based Virtual World
• ACRL VIrtual World Interest Group to visit Cybalounge May 20 at noon
• Library/Education time in Cybalounge (Mondays 10 to 11 am Pacific time)
• What DragNDrop for web-worlds means for inventories
• The Web Report: Educator Edition: Digital Citizenship (beta)
• The Web Report: Education and Educators: Planning
• Video visits to virtual worlds on the web: Cybalounge
• Building a talk-show set in Cybalounge: Tutorial
• Talk show, presentation facilities available on the web
• Monetizing user-built web-worlds
• Talk show, presentation facilities available on the web
• Information/social games for public service web-worlds
• Build your model home in Cybalounge: use case

Classes support

• A gamified learning plan for starting students and teachers in web-worlds. A strawman version.
• CybaLOUNGE introduces the multimedia presenter. If you have the link you can get the display. That is almost any link on the web: Web page, google docs page, video.
• What would I want in a MUVE if I were using it to teach a class?
• CybaLOUNGE: credentials: Batch-Registration for Students
• Cybalounge web classroom (model). Any instructor could have a classroom to modify as needed

Use cases for web-worlds

• Virtual selling from the metaverse. A virtual office? A virtual sales floor? A virtual place to demo the product?
• 3DWebWorldz hosts a digital art museum in your browser. Monet, Demuth, Fortier.
• ACRL tour of Cybalounge. Meeting in a browser. CybaLOUNGE is 30 seconds from anywhere. Even from lockdown
• Virtual worlds can serve many markets but need the right product for each market. Use case: Public-facing place: office,sales floors marketing exposition
• Euroversity asks: Christel Schneider answers: Why do you use virtual worlds in education?
• Installation art in the plural. Visit 1Biennale explores the possibilities of virtual worlds
• Language learning in virtual reality. Learn It Town sim: ESL (VWMOOC)
• CybaLOUNGE Dev meeting every other Friday: Metaverse school
• Hold a collaborative meeting.
• Web-worlds for promotion: Come to my web-world, promote your project
• Web-worlds and a MOOC: update for 2018
• Teacher's web assistant brings museums, aquariums, web cams virtual worlds, libraries, games, and challenges
• For lectures and presentations, use web-senders in virtual worlds
• Web-worlders will want their own portable database on their own computers
• Dual streaming to Open Sim and 3DWebWorldz
• What DragNDrop for web-worlds means for inventories
• Online libraries as centers for adult instruction. Self-managed learning.
• Live marketing in web-worlds: Can virtual worlds get a piece of the action?
• Libraries and museums will combine in virtual worlds
• 3DWebWorldz has a new Library
• Library/Education time in Cybalounge (Mondays 10 to 11 am Pacific time)
• Homes and Gardens. A web-world use case
• Live marketing in web-worlds
• Information/social games for public service web-worlds
• The Web Report: Education and Educators: Planning
• Talk show, presentation facilities available on the web
• Want to find out about web-worlds? Drop by my place. I am a web-world welcomer
• The web show: a magazine from the virtual worlds
• Community onboarding for the virtual worlds: Using a web-world
• Public service web-world by CybaLounge. Virtual worlders, this one is for us
• Demo web-world for education and presentations
• Community onboarding for the virtual worlds: Using a web-world
• Web-world general rooms, the Eventorator Room
• Web-world use case: Conversational spoken English! Or other language
• Conferences, the web-world version
• Imagining the browser-viewer: wormhole connecting WWW to the virtual worlds
• Browser-viewer imaginary use case: Entertainment
• Viewer in Browser (VIB): Imaginary use case: communities
• VIB (browser-viewer) imaginary use case: Education

Museums in web-worlds

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
• Hintze Hall, NHM London
• The Louvre
• The British Museum
• The Museum of Natural Sciences
• The National Museum of Computing

Helpful info 

• WHY WE SHOULD ALL SUPPORT GLTF 2.0 AS THE STANDARD ASSET EXCHANGE FORMAT FOR GAME ENGINES
• > Import Collada into Blender and don't even touch it 
• > Export to GLTF2 using the Khronos plugin (https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Blender-Exporter). 
• Save the result to a brand new folder with the name scene.gltf 
• > zip up the contents of the new folder (not the folder, the contents only -- scene.gltf, .bin file, textures) 
• > use the 3DWW upload mesh option -- choose the zip file from your folders, put >> scene.gltf << when asked for file name.
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• Austin Tate's Blog on glTF
• How to clear browser cache in Chrome without tossing your cookies
• 3D scanning and animation with a smartphone. Can we bring that avatar into a web-world?
• Metaverse, WebVR Augmented Reality, Stereo Reality reaching your browser

Drop by my web office Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)

• Cybalounge.
• Mondays we focus on learning/library/museums.
• Fridays we may focus on grants, contracts, business, and web-worlds.
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  
• If you see no one, click the pointed push-pin (bottom line) to find me.
• We can also visit 3DWebWorldz, a professionally-built world.  
• 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
• Web-worlds are small and run in a browser with nothing else installed.
• Full virtual worlds are a bigger experience, but need extra software installed.

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• Selby Evans in Kitely and Hypergrid, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life.