2019 EDU: MUVE: Themed grids/MUVEs focus on what the customer wants

Themed grids or virtual places, 
focus on what the customer wants

The Empty Classroom

Themes, grids, websites, MUVEs

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• MUVE update 1/10/2019: Pecan Pie murder, OpenSim Fest, Edu Funding

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Time to stop selling land on a grid

• That's if you want a large market.
• A school does not want a grid. It wants a campus,
• Singers and their audiences do not want a grid.  They want night clubs.
• Sailing fans do not want a grid.  They want open water.
• If you want to sell, talk to customers in the language they speak.
• Talk to them about what they want.
• If you talk in geek speak you sell only to geeks.
• Grid is ingroup.  The big market is outgroup.

Think 3D communities

• Communities that meet in 3D places.  
• Educational communities already exist.  
• They already talk among themselves on the web.
• Some of us are already in these communities, talking to them about MUVEs.
• But we don't talk about MUVEs in general.  
• We talk about educational activities in MUVEs--current and potential.
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• Are lots of people interested in communities that fit their interests?
• People in education are interested in others needing or offering specific learning opportunities.
• People with hobbies are interested in others with the same hobby.
• People on a mission are interested in others on the same mission.
• People in retail are interested in meeting potential customers.
• None of these people are interested in grids.
• All of these people would be interested in 3D spaces 
• If they saw 3D Spaces as tools that serve their goals.
• 3D communities are people who come together in 3D spaces 
• Kitely: Introducing Organizations (Virtual Grids)

Example of a themed place on the Hypergrid

• Opensim.Life: Entertainment and Social: all about people
• The event grid. The social grid. Opensim.life Grid. It's all about people
• Fantasy dance at OpenSim.Life
• The entertainment grid Opensim.life grid. It's about people having a good time
• The event grid. The social grid. Opensim.life Grid. It's all about people
• Inspiration Island on OpenSim.Life
• The grid of the things as they are: Opensim.life grid. It's all about people
• Riding the dunes at OpenSim.Life

The customer's MUVEs:educators

• Not just a name change--a change of focus.
• A MUVE is what we old timers call a sim. 
• Collect some of them on a website and you have a "grid".
• At least that is what we virtual worlders call it.  
• There are lots of potential customers for what we call "virtual worlds."
• Potential means you haven't done it yet.
• But people in education are interested in education, not grids.
• Educators would be interested in grids if they saw them as tools to serve their goals.
• We OpenSimmers see grids and MUVEs as places where students can learn. 
• Low-cost and easily accessed places.
• Classrooms that fit the educational objectives.
• We have stories to tell.
• And places to tell  the stories.