2018 WW: EDU: How to put 3D on your website.

How to put 3D on your website

As 3D becomes more widely available, more web sites are including virtual 3D environments as a way to win more visitor engagement.  Virtual 3D can show visitors through a museum and even take a class on a virtual field trip that is supported by live conversations among students, teachers, and docents.

 

• Watch on YouTube

• On the cheap 
• Virtual field trip
• Make a place of your own
• Teacher's web assistant brings museums, aquariums, webcams, virtual worlds, libraries, games, and challenges

Who would be interested?

• Educators
• Marketers
• Advertisers
• Website providers

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On the cheap (Smithsonian)

• Given a physical place of interest:
• Make full high resolution 360 degree images from various points.
• Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
• Let users move from point to point, scroll around, and zoom.
• If you have enough points, it is a lot like walking around in the place.
• This gives a first-person view (no avatar is seen).
• The experience is asocial (there is no one to talk to).
• The method offers a low-cost virtual visit that can adequately present the place.
• It is not like an educational field trip. 
• 360cities.net
• GettyImages
• Wix Tutorial: 360° Virtual Reality Image

Virtual field trip

• Use a web-world like CybaLOUNGE or 3DWebWorldz
• Bring in a web page offering an asocial tour (as above).
• Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
• Send the group (class) to selected places for discussions
• Teacher's web assistant brings museums, etc.

Make a place of your own 

• Import an OAR file from a virtual world.
• (OAR files are copies of virtual worlds.)
• Sources:  OAR files for download
• (Check the license.)
• OAR files can be imported into CybaLOUNGE or 3DWebWorldz
• Contact the owner of the web-world for details on how to do this.
• Import is not yet easy and may not be free.

Maybe it should be a business

• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• For lectures and presentations, use web-senders in virtual worlds
• Learning centers on a browser. A use case for web-worlds as schools, libraries, and museums
• Video visits to virtual worlds on the web: Cybalounge

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• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• Web-worlds are small and run in a browser with nothing else to install.
• Full virtual worlds are a bigger experience but need extra software installed.
• GetEdFunding
• Optimize Your GetEdFunding Grant Search
• EDUCAUSE

Videos from virtual worlds

• Selby's YouTube Channel
• Free video resources for virtual worlds
• Simple video editing with Shotcut, for virtual worlders
• Convenient video capture in Windows 10--any window
• Articles about videos from virtual worlds

News and Notes

Communities in the virtual worlds

• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid   
• Best metaverse communities
• Communities virtual worlds G+
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari

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

• Metaverse 101 Info + Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• 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 

Articles in this blog

• About education
• Sailing in virtual worlds
• About Videos
• Sights of the virtual worlds
• People of the virtual worlds
• About business

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