Second Life Destinations: Deer River is a Fall themed destination celebrating the rich hues of Autumn. Visit the small fishing town, the campsite, enjoy a warm drink at the waterfall and ride Teegle horses around the region.
15TH ANNUAL VIRTUAL WORLDS BEST PRACTICES IN EDUCATION MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2022 PHOENIX RISING
The VWBPE Conference is a completely virtual conference that is conducted using simulated environments. Participants experience the conference through a virtual reality type setting including conference rooms, theatres, exposition halls, meeting spaces, and other types of venues similar to a brick and mortar type conference.
The conference is free to attend. The cost of the conference is covered by sponsorship and donations.
West Side Story--Promotional video made in Second Life
From VWBPE 2021
New Formats
Tool Talks
The big ideas are often shared at conferences, but what about those “little” things that you cannot do without in your practice – be it a tool, technique, or technology? Share a short and engaging demonstration showing us why this idea is not to be missed (Max 20 minutes). Rezzed examples and handouts are encouraged.
Poster Presentations:
Share your research in our new Posters venue, with opportunities for both asynchronous exploration and scheduled synchronous presentation times during the conference. In addition to their poster, presenters are encouraged to provide a short video overview of their work to be shown at their poster booth. Students are strongly encouraged to share their current work with a poster presentation.
Presentation Proposals are welcomed from all subject areas and virtual environments that support teaching and learning. Whether you work at the elementary, secondary, or post-secondary levels, or support community based programs – we want to hear from you!
New Media Arts has developed a model letter of agreement for the employment of actors in virtual worlds. It is reproduced below. Anyone is licensed to use it but it should credit New Media Arts.
In the document below, blank spaces or multiple question marks indicate an item that is to be filled in by the producing entity or by the actor.
For work that is to be captured on video, volunteers should also sign a letter of agreement granting reproduction and distribution rights to the producing entity.
"The Metaverse is a collective virtual shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space,[1] including the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the Internet." Wikipedia
"Persistent virtual space" has been around for years as virtual worlds.
There are many virtual worlds and many, many active groups in these worlds.
Hub (Network): A hub is a network node with lots of links.
A metaverse hub is a place in the metaverse with links to other parts of the metaverse.
RezMela's Panocube gives world-wide virtual tours in Kitely.
Exploration of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ryōanji.
Distance is nothing to the metaverse.
How your class can travel the world. The video captures a live unscripted session. Exploration of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ryōanji (1488) by Virtual World EdTech designers in Kitely
Social skills are vitally important to success in life, but where do we find practice space for them? John Arcadian, a writer and publisher of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, talks about the benefits that can be gained from playing out characters in Tabletop Role-playing Games.
The people of the metaverse are really irritated by articles about the metaverse that show total ignorance about the history and current state of the metaverse.
Virtual Pioneers is a group of historically-minded associates that enjoy using Virtual Environments to learn and explore. Second Life is one of the virtual environments explored.
Second Life is a free-to-use desktop app providing 3-D platform access.
Virtual Pioneers is a group of historically-minded associates that enjoy using Virtual Environments to learn and explore. Second Life is one of the virtual environments explored.
The Virtual Pioneers visit various virtual simulations across Second Life and beyond. This tour is on Museum Island and features the Vatican.
Grids or organizations can self-host their Echovoice servers or connect to a hosting service.
Organizations that have security requirements will want to self-host.
The EchoVoice client bridge is designed to work with all of the supported viewers without any development effort by viewer development teams.
The current EchoVoice bridge design concept should allow users to seamlessly detect and switch to Vivox if they land in a region running Vivox V3/V4/ or the newer V5.
You can listen to talking heads telling you what the metaverse will be like when it arrives or you can visit a part that has already arrived and is in use. Meet the people who are making the metaverse.
Avatars are immortal but the people behind them are not.
Ever since my creative partner, Natascha Randt, passed away on September 3rd of this year. I have been working on building her a memorial on Kitely - Virtual Worlds--Karima-Hoisan
Hypergrid address: grid.kitely.com:8002:The Natascha Randt Memorial
With the help of my fabulous scripting partner, Dale Innis, and also Joey Schaffer (Joey Writer) a close friend and collaborator of Nat's who has also contributed with a special section, we can now say it's done.
The world is a guided tour, that once again, relies heavily on being able to see parcel media and enjoy short clips.
