Minimalist installation art in a dance venue makes the audience become part of the art.
This presentation from Infinite Metaverse Alliance® (IMA) and Thales Group discusses development of a new open source viewer for the OpenSimulator community focused on improvements in usability, accessibility, and interoperability.
Development is driven by inclusive “design thinking” while adding capabilities for the future to address gaps in development aimed at the needs of new users and those with different abilities that may be digitally marginalized.
The SceneGate Viewer project is one of several R&D projects integrated with decentralized OpenSimulator development supporting the mission to advance virtual worlds, virtual reality, and synthetic environments.
The work of IMA and Thales is directed toward broadening use of the Metaverse for Public, Education, Industry and Government sectors but the digital-3D community as a whole benefits from open source.
SceneGate and other virtual world viewers offer 3 kinds of media streaming: audio (mainly for playing music streams), video, and media on a prim (BOPs). Here are instructions for users on how to manage them.
Immediate feedback is needed for optimal learning conditions. A computer is limited in what it can evaluate. But in a scene under its control, it can give feedback to support vocabulary learning and well up into the more advanced language skills.
Jan.-Feb. collection of comedy from Lauren's place: WyNott, Catboy, HiTech, Amouretta, Randy, Jamie, Synnove
Entrepreneurial thinking discovers an opportunity to market a new product or service. Design thinking develops a plan for producing and marketing such a product or service. A Digital Teaching Assistant is potentially a new product or service. A collaboration of ideas. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
A gamified plan for learning how to use digital/virtual worlds is offered both as a suggestion for teaching the use of virtual worlds and as a model for gamification in other educational contexts. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
A Kitely region showing the use of several Rezmela Apps to build spaces with no need to know much about building in virtual worlds.
What people do in education is much like what people do in games. Educators can use the principles of games to enhance the effectiveness of education.
A collection of articles about SceneGate, a viewer designed for use in OpenSimulator grids. SceneGate has a number of features designed to help specific groups of users, such as beginners, students, people with disabilities and attendees at meetings. This article will be updated with new articles when they are posted.
A resource for project-based learning (PBL). Maybe worth 25% apprentice badge: Inquiry reporter
Beginner-friendly revisions to 3DWebWorldz are explained.
Creativity thrives in a user-built digital place. We are the users. We are the builders. We are the creative digital citizens of this digital universe. Here we see how we can use this makerspace to create art with a meaning. The creativity lies in the art and in the meaning.Introduction to the Creative Process and Symbolic Modeling
A bit of information on how SceneGate may display an existing script saved in Firestorm.
Developing comedy plans at Selby's place in 3DWebWorldz. Here is the place to try out your comedy act before a small friendly audience.
Getting descriptive knowledge about a subject makes a student able to describe some things about the subject. It also practices study skills. But if the practice only reaches recognize and recall it may not be teaching (or evaluating) all the skills needed for effective study. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
"This is our second year of running Opensim Fest and with last year's success we are pleased to say that we will be running it again this year. We have a new cohort of the community joining us that has not traditionally been part of the event. So this year we will have builders (Exhibitors), performers, and merchants."
The case for the education game. Why education is already a game, though many educators are reluctant to accept the view. And how the fully managed environment of the digital world can support gamification. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
