2019 WW: EDU: Convergence: OpenSim and web-worlds

Convergence: 
OpenSim and web-worlds 

How OpenSim and web-worlds are coming together to produce a better user experience in both places.

Starting place writer's workshop

• How to put an interactive story in a 3D web page on 3DWebWorldz
• It started as an OAR file in OpenSim
• Was converted to web-world use with Convoar.
• So it is much the same in Nara's Nook and in 3DWebWorldz

Convergence elements

• Share social media
• Share events
• Gateway
• OARS
• Same avatars
• Shared local chat
• Shared voice

• MUVE update 1/31/2019 Kitely Organizations, OpenSim Fest, G+exit

****************
****************

OpenSim and web-worlds converge 

Share social media

• Social media are for communities, not grids. web pages, or physical addresses.
• Social media includes them all and talks about them all.
• Shared experience in social media promotes both OpenSIm and web-worlds.

Share events in OpenSim and web-worlds

• Dual streaming to Open Sim and 3DWebWorldz

Gateway:  Use a web-world to promote a grid

• Web-worlds as gateway to OpenSimulator
• Bringing OpenSim and web-worlds together: Web-world on the landing page

Copy an OpenSim region to a web-world

• Oars transferred from OpenSim to 3DWebWorldz    
• Importing OAR files from OpenSim to Web Worlds: Convoar

Have the same avatars in OpenSim and web-worlds

• Can be (has been) done as a custom job by a skilled avatar creator.

Shared local chat

• Has been done between 3DWebWorldz and OpenSim.life

Shared voice

• Low tech: A web-world can run at the same time as OpenSim. 
• We can hear voice from both places and talk in the one we choose.
• Alternative: we all use Discord.

Why both?

• Complementary characteristics
• Web-worlds: Easy access, low cost equipment, no installation
• OpenSim: More powerful scripting, more of everything.
• Web-worlds can show people what 3D places are like.  
• Web-worlds can build a web community that uses 3D.  
• Web-worlds can help people get into OpenSim.

Web-worlds: background

• 3DWebWorldz
• CybaLOUNGE
• You can visit either of these as a guest, without registering.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• 3DWW is social VW. How to start