2022 Metaverse lectures: Hybrid Tech & Cross Dimensional Thinking: Use cases. And a demonstration of lecturing in the metaverse.

Metaverse lectures:  

Hybrid Tech & Cross Dimensional Thinking: Use cases.  

And a demonstration of lecturing in the metaverse.

Cross dimensional thinking in the metaverse  Shifting perspectives to meet goals. A technique for creativity.

• Watch on YouTube

• “Hybrid Tech” means combining multiple tools to blend their strengths and mediate their weaknesses, relative to the use case at hand. 
• “Cross Dimensional Thinking” means shifting perspectives, again and again, to master hybrid tech tool combinations. 
• We will review FIVE USE CASES demonstrating how tools and perspectives can be blended interchangeably, relative to the use at hand.
• OSCC Presentation archive

2022 Museums in the metaverse . Create a 3D Virtual Museum in minutes! Museums on your laptop, tablet, smart phone

Museums in the metaverse.  

Create a 3D Virtual Museum in minutes!  

Museums on your laptop, tablet, smart phone

Anything you can show in a museum, you can show in the metaverse.  That puts the museum in practically every home and school.

• Watch on YouTube
• Tutorial 6: Create a 3D Virtual Museum in minutes!
• This video has captions, please turn it on by clicking on the CC button at the bottom of the clip. 
• In this clip, I captured the ideation process for creating an example 'museum exhibit'. I show how I created a mini-museum featuring works from Pablo Picasso, literally in minutes (the duration of this clip). 
• Typically, a group of designers would log into our 3D virtual work area to help each other reach a common design. 
• The RezMela system is ideally suited for this process. It radically reduces exhibit design prototyping costs and produces tangible design solutions after live brainstorming sessions. 

2022 Prehistoric metaverse. Classes on the Mesozoic? Nessie the Plesiosaur swims in Second Life. And your students can swim with her.

Prehistoric metaverse.  

Classes on the Mesozoic?   

Nessie the Plesiosaur swims in Second Life.  

And your students can swim with her.

The metaverse offers environments that no longer exist,  Ones that in the past you could only read about.

• Watch on YouTube

Related

• Kayaker Magic on the fence. Electric!
• The Boat Race Course at Panthalassa
• Educational experiences on offer. Experiences? Yes--In virtual worlds students don't just sit quietly and listen.
• Kayaker's World - Panthalassa. T. rex, Velociraptor, etc. A lost world we found on a Metaverse Tour
• Panthalassa on Kitely, by Kayaker Magic
• Anyone for dinosaurs? Hunt them, study them, make movies of them...
• Kayaker builds a horse, problems and solutions at the WIP meeting
• The Lost World of Kayaker Magic
• Own your own Dinosaur, virtually! (Virtual is better than real in this case)
• Godzilla and the boats: Testing the sim and the physics. Research can be fun.
• Educational resources on the Hypergrid: Educator places, educational places, education support
• Horse jumping in the virtual worlds

2922 ART: Art in the Metaverse: Tour of Moyaland in Second Life. Installation art in the metaverse

Art in the Metaverse:  

Tour of Moyaland in Second Life.  

Installation art in the metaverse

Some provinces in the metaverse let you build on land you rent and make that easy by providing tools fitted to the local tech.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Installation Art

• Tour Moya land with the famous artist Patrick Moya
• Moya has been at the forefront since the 1970s of straddling the latest forms of media and technology to benefit art. 
• He is an early pioneer of video art.
• Moya become a digital artist since his early work on computer in the mid-80s : 
• now, since 2007, he is the owner of a virtual Moya Land in the 3D web of Second Life.

• After the break: Installation art in the metaverse

2022 Metaverse theater: All the metaverse is a stage. And some of us are writing for it. Here is an example.

Metaverse theater: 

All the metaverse is a stage.  

And some of us are writing for it.  

Here is an example. 

Interested in theater and movies?  So are we.

• Watch on YouTube
• Shrink Wrapped - AVATAR needing psychiatric help
• Pilot for web series of a brand new comedy featuring Dr. Peter Occam, psychiatrist for mixed up avatars in Virtual Worlds. 
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2022 The metaverse is a programmed environment. Do the metaverse experts know what that means? You can't build it unless you can program it.

The metaverse is a programmed environment.  

Do the metaverse experts know what that means?  

You can't build it unless you can program it.

Objects in the metaverse do nothing unless they are programmed to do it.  Do the new people buying metaverse land know where they will get the programs to run their places?

• Watch on YouTube
• LSL (Linden Scripting Language): A (Very Basic) Intro
• Other video tutorials on LSL

Programming the metaverse

• Object-oriented: programs tell objects to do things
• Event-driven: objects do their thing in response to some event, such as a click
• Linden scripting language: used to program objects in Second Life and OpenSimulator 

What do you do with scripts?

Communication 

• Signs: Give more information: open a web page, give a note.
• Invite sign: Give option to join a group
• Mailbox: Take a note to deliver  to someone: deliver inworld or by email

Teaching (telling)

• Object: Give information about itself: open a web page, give a note, speak its name.
• Object: Animate to show function.

Formative assessment

• Object: ask a question, give a token on correct answer

Ambience

• Add expected sights and sounds to a scene.
• E.G.: a garden needs flying butterflies and birds singing.

Objects

• Do as expected: Doors open and close on click.

Previous articles

• Scripting resources in virtual worlds, LSL and OSSL. summary
• Thinkerer Utility Kit has utility scripts and objects for starting in HG
• Scripting. Meet LSL, object oriented, event driven and other concepts
• LSL scripts and scripting. Beginner's Summary
• Script Modding 101: Use scripts without knowing how. 2012
• Free LSL Script Library and Bug Tracking System. HG project, BeatThis
• Scripting Showcase Trail, Acryline Erin
• OpenSim scripting resources: OpenSim Scripters (G+), Showcase trail
• LSL Scripting in Second Life, states, video
• Particle effects. Smoke, fire, flies, snow, butterflies
• How to expand your Kitely virtual world. Megaworlds and teleport. Walk in TP works for avatars. Object TP for vehicles
• Scripts color for you.
• New plans for WIP meeting, to show stuff with OSSL threat functions
• Particle effects with Firestorm Particle Editor. AMP video notes

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Easy access sources in the metaverse

• Reddit/Second Life
• Fridays 3 pm eastern (New York) 
• At the Web Show, a video set in the metaverse 
• Go there with this url: https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/loc... 
• A developer meeting is held there every other week: 
• To find out which week, follow CybaLOUNGE on Twitter: 
• https://twitter.com/cybaLOUNGE
• 3DWebWorldz: Meetings alternate with the Web Show
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• I am usually available weekdays at 1 pm New York time 
• In these 2 places:
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true

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• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain.
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• Screenshots from ShareX
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google

2022 #VWEDU: Anyone for Mars? A place for students to visit to learn about space: Mars, ecology in space, rockets, geology, carbon cycle, oxygen production, universal habitat

Anyone for Mars?  

A place for students to visit to learn about space: 

Mars,  ecology in space, rockets, geology, 

carbon cycle, oxygen production, universal habitat

Digital field trips can take your students anywhere.

• Watch on YouTube
• Go there:
•  International Spaceflight Museum
• ISM2
• International Spaceflight Museum’s Mars Base / Universal Habitat analog astronaut / colonist training facility. 

Related

• A field trip to Mars. Jezero Crater. Even without a pandemic you can't do that. Unless you have a digital side.
• A field trip to virtual Mars. Jezero Crater. We are the digitals. We can go anywhere.
• A field trip to Mars. Jezero Crater. The rover, Perseverance
• Serenity Island: Spaceship, Mars and the Moon
• Educational field trips in the browser. Parental supervision as needed. No travel cost, no travel time, no school responsibility.
• JPL's Explorer Island
• Metaverse tours. You don't need a classroom in the metaverse. You just need places where students can learn. CVL shows how.

2022 Metaverse Education. A look at Virtual Worlds Education Consortium. A place for educators to start by meeting with other educators.

Metaverse Education.  

A look at Virtual Worlds Education Consortium. 

A place for educators to start by meeting with other educators.

• Virtual Worlds Education Consortium opens a place in the metaverse for educators to meet.

• Watch on YouTube
• VWEC YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQt2ri0_70YSZb0Ep4GoDlQ
• Virtual Worlds Education Consortium
• https://communityvirtuallibrary.org/vwec/
• VWEC Deck SLurl:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VWEC%20Eduverse/189/141/29
• In SL, paste a SLurl in the address bar of the viewer, press enter.
• VWEC Welcome Plaza SLurl:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/VWEC%20Eduverse/209/110/45
• Open map: Ctrl+m
• Green dots mark people.
• Find nearby people: People button (2 heads)
• Zoom in on nearby person: Right click on name. select Zoom.

Index

• VWEC Deck: 20 seconds
• VWEC Welcome Plaza: 7:13 minutes
• VWEC area map:  9:28 minutes

2022 Metaverse entertainment: Psychedelic Saturday at Billy Bob's Underground. The magic of particle effects.

Metaverse entertainment:  

Psychedelic Saturday at Billy Bob's Underground.  

The magic of particle effects.

The metaverse has great potential for visual art.  Here are some examples.

• Watch on YouTube
• Psychedelic Saturday at Billy Bob's Underground

• Particle effects are supported by the graphics card
• ART: Particle effects with Firestorm Particle Editor. AMP video notes

2022 Role play in the metaverse, Video stories in the metaverse. Jinsil International Airport has an emergency. A story in simulation

Role play in the metaverse,  

Video stories in the metaverse.  

Jinsil International Airport has an emergency.  

A story in simulation

People can practice handling an emergency in the metaverse.  And no penalty for mistakes. They get do-overs as needed.

• Watch on YouTube
• Jinsil Air Disaster 5/7/22

• Jinsil International Airport has an Emergency Care Center (Hospital) at the end of the runway, 
• Go to Jinsil International Airport, emergency response:
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Baramdoli/212/105/67
• In Second Life, put the above line in the address bar, press enter
• Luke FlyWalker invites people who do RP to use the Emergency Care Center. If you want to set something up and have other RP groups join you like, a Fire Service, please speak to Eric 'Dutch' Stolker who is the Fire chief for Jinsil

2022 Metaverse: Digital literacy for the Cyborgs. That includes all of us. Everybody online. We need to be able to work in the digital world.

Digital citizenship for the Cyborgs. 

That includes all of us. 

Everybody online. 

We need to be able to work in the digital world.

A discussion of digital citizenship relating to digital culture, metaliteracy, and ways to advocate digital citizenship in virtual environments. 

• Watch on YouTube
• OSCC21: Digital Citizenship for Cyborgs and Avatars
• Cyborg
• Digital literacy
• More after the break

2022 #VWEDU: The Eduverse project in Second Life

Metaverse Collaboration with VWEC (at VWBPE 2022).  

Eduverse:  Destination for educators in Second Life 

Educators started in Second Life a long time ago.  Now they are assembling there and branching out.

• Watch on YouTube
• Educators who worked to establish the VWEC Welcome Plaza in Second Life share progress at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference 2022 
• Eduverse (VWEC Welcome Plaza)
• Education articles in this blog
• VWBPE playlists (YouTube)

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Education in Virtual Worlds

• About 8,090,000,000 results 
• Scholarly articles 
• Explore These Virtual Worlds for Learning. ISTE
• Educational Frontiers: Learning in a Virtual World
• Top 20 uses of Virtual Worlds in Education
• 10 Best Examples Of VR And AR In Education
• A whole new world: Education meets the metaverse
• Virtual world language learning
• Second Life in higher education: Assessing the potentialfor and the barriers to deploying virtual worlds inlearning and teaching
• Virtual Worlds in Business and Education
• Why teachers should use virtual worlds
• Virtual Classes in a Virtual World
• A Paradigm Shift in Simulation: Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds and Future Use of Virtual Reality, Robotics, and Drones
• 3D Virtual Worlds: Business and LearningOpportunities

Easy access meetings in the metaverse

• Reddit/Second Life
• Fridays 3 pm eastern (New York) 
• At the Web Show, a video set in the metaverse 
• Go there with this url: https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/loc... 
• A developer meeting is held there every other week: 
• To find out which week, follow CybaLOUNGE on Twitter: 
• https://twitter.com/cybaLOUNGE
• 3DWebWorldz: Meetings alternate with the Web Show
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• I am usually available weekdays at 1 pm New York time 
• In these 2 places:
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true
• Music every Friday at 9 pm New York time:
• https://LiveMusic3D.com

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• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain.
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• Screenshots from ShareX
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google

2022 Metaverse fest: OpenSim Fest 2022 #OSFest2022: People, events, exhibits, art, merchandise. You don't have to wait for the metaverse-- it is here.

Metaverse Fest:  7/8-25, 2022 

OpenSim Fest 2022:  #OSFest2022

People, events, exhibits, art, merchandise.  

You don't have to wait for the metaverse-- it is here.

Lots of metaverse people at  #OSFest  2022.  Nobody is in the future metaverse.  Come to the now metaverse,

• Watch on YouTube
• Hashtag: #OSFest2022
• Attendance: Free
• Website
• OpenSim Fest blog
• OSFest Opening Date: July 8, 2022
• OSFest Closing Date: July 25, 2022

Attending

• If you will  be networking​, go with your regular avatar
• From other hypergrid places:
• grid.opensimfest.com:8022
• Put the above line in the world map Find bar, click Find
• To create an account and avatar at the fest grid, go here.

Previous fests

• Avatar Fest, celebration of the Hypergrid community. Nov. 13-16.
• AvatarFest. the third year: the hypergrid-based opensim community
• AvatarFest 2017 Sharing our light. Starts Saturday, September 23
• 2018 ART: PEOPLE The Last AvatarFest…
• From The Ashes Of AvatarFest, Opensim Fest Rises
• OpenSim Fest 2020. August 28th-30th, 2020. Showcasing merchants this time, as well as Performers and exhibitors
• AvatarFest is the celebration of the strength and diversity of the hypergrid user community
• Meet Exhibitor Organizer Contessa (Tessa) Lacombe by Doc Nolan
• The Sponsors' Tale by Thirza Ember
• An Interview with OSFest2022 Merchant Organizer Luna Lunaria by Doc Nolan

2022 The metaverse and OpenSimulator. It's a mini-metaverse. Your own metaverse. On your own machine.

The metaverse and OpenSimulator.  

It's a mini-metaverse.  

Your own metaverse.  

On your own machine.

Did they tell you to wait for the metaverse?  While waiting, we hold conferences there.  And we make videos so you can see for yourself.

• Watch on YouTube
• The Metaverse is coming, and OpenSim can show the way

• OpenSimulator
• Hypergrid business
• "Venture capital investment in the metaverse has nearly doubled this year."
• Facebook has changed its name to Meta.
• Metaverse hype is everywhere. 
• With improvements in bandwidth and better headset design, we’re in the a new era. 
• Many of the projects being announced are closed or proprietary platforms. 
• OpenSim’s decentralized, open-source, hyperconnected universe points the way. 
• What OpenSimulator/hypergrid needs to qualify as the beginning metaverse. It already has most of the needed features: A meeting in the metaverse.
• OSCC Presentation archive

OpenSimulator

OpenSimulator is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols, see Connecting. Optional Hypergrid allow users to visit other OpenSimulator installations across the web from their 'home' installation or grid. In this way, it is the basis of a nascent distributed Metaverse.

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Easy access sources in the metaverse

• Reddit/Second Life
• Fridays 3 pm eastern (New York) 
• At the Web Show, a video set in the metaverse 
• Go there with this url: https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/loc... 
• A developer meeting is held there every other week: 
• To find out which week, follow CybaLOUNGE on Twitter: 
• https://twitter.com/cybaLOUNGE
• 3DWebWorldz: Meetings alternate with the Web Show
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• I am usually available weekdays at 1 pm New York time 
• In these 2 places:
• Welcome Center.  https://3dwebworldz.com/
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000002&dl=true

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• Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain.
• Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
• All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
• Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
• Screenshots from ShareX
• This blog is not affiliated with anything.   Ads are from Google

2022 Metaverse museums. The National Museum of Computing. Art museums . NFT museums. History museums. Antarctic research station

Metaverse museums.   The National Museum of Computing.  

Art museums . NFT museums. 

History museums. Antarctic research station

Museums can use the metaverse to reach a world-wide audience.

• Watch on YouTube
• Antarctica Research Station - Virtual World
• Step through your screen and into The National Museum of Computing
• Museums in the Metaverse
• Artists Are Now Developing Their Latest Works in the Metaverse
• New NFTs Will Let Virtual Museum Show Art Across the Metaverse
• Toledo Museum of Art offers viewers new experience of artist Stan Douglas’ film Doppelgänger in the metaverse
• The First Metaverse Museum Of History-Bringing The Past To The Future

2022 Metaverse future: Oberwolf and Philip. The people you want to hear talk about the metaverse are already there.

Metaverse future:  

Oberwolf and Philip.  

The people you want to hear talk about the metaverse 

are already there.

People with a lot of experience in the developing metaverse talk about the future of the metaverse from their location in the metaverse (Second Life).  Metaverse experts are comfortable doing interviews there.    

• Watch on YouTube
• Second Life's Lab Gab - Oberwolf and Philip
• Linden Lab’s Executive Chairman, Brad Oberwager (Oberwolf Linden), 
• Second Life’s Founder and current Strategic Advisor, Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden) 

• Learn more: https://second.life/lg011322 
• Interested in Second Life? Get started: https://second.life/tutorials 
• Lab Gab is a talk show about the virtual world of Second Life. 
• Lab Gab PlayList: https://second.life/labgab 
• Second Life Blog: https://second.life/featurednews 
• Second Life Public Calendar: https://second.life/calendar 
• Second Life on Social Media: https://second.life/communityresources
• Second life on YouTube

2022 Metaverse homes: New Victorian Linden Home Neighborhood. Second Life Homes: Where to Buy, Rent, Decorate, Sell Your SL Home.

Metaverse homes:  

New Victorian Linden Home Neighborhood. 

Second Life Homes: 

Where to Buy, Rent, Decorate, Sell Your SL Home

Homes in the metaverse.  How to get them.  What you can do with them.

• Watch on YouTube
• Victorian Linden Home Neighborhood

More videos on the topic

• Second Life Homes - Where to Buy, Rent, Decorate, Sell Your SL Home
• Long video: you can skip ahead with the time slider
• LET'S GO FURNITURE AND DECOR SHOPPING | SECOND LIFE | BLACK FRIDAY 2020
• How To Decorate On Second Life
• Landscape and Decorate With Me! + House Tour | Second Life
• Furnishing my dream house| Second Life
• SecondLIfe: 10 Must know tips on decor in secondlife.
• Second Life | WHERE TO GET LAND, HOUSES AND FURNITURE
• Where To Buy Land and Houses + Set up! | Second Life
• After the break: What you can do with a metaverse home.