2016 FUTURE: HG: Interview with Doug Maxwell Re: Browser-Based Viewer for OpenSim

Interview with Doug Maxwell Re:
Browser-Based Viewer for OpenSim

Dr. Doug Maxwell (Military Metaverse @ http://militarymetaverse.org) discusses his team's work on a browser-based viewer for OpenSim. Dr. Kay McLennan (@ the Tulane SCS Metaverse) is the interviewer.

• Watch on YouTube
• The interviewer had sound problems, but Maxwell has good sound.  Scroll ahead to about 1 min. 40 Sec.

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• Where is Arcadia?

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Lento Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 12/29, 7pm SLT

This week the Short Poetry Workshop presents the Lento, which is a 2-stanza poem with a fixed rhyme scheme that rhymes the first words of each line. There are several variations of the form so join us as we learn, write and share the Lento. 

• Short Poetry Workshop meets every Tuesday at 7 pm SLT 
• Location Link. Click to go or drag to the Viewer screen: 
• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cookie/160/134/21/ 

Timely Information

• Information which may be immediately important to some people
• The case of the vanishing suitcase

Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world Thru Dec.
• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• A Dimension Beyond
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2016 BIZ: FUT: Your clothing fashion in your hands, with help from your computer and a 3d printer. You choose, customize, or design.

Download your clothes.  
Your computer and 3d printer. 
You choose, customize, design.     

Your clothing fashion in your hands.  All it takes is a 3d printer with the right materials.  Materials that print like cloth.  Design it, wear it, sell it, sell computer files with designs customers can rework to their own tastes.  

• Watch on the TED site
• Danit Peleg

2015 HELP: A physics engine is not needed in OpenSim--Kayaker Magic

A physics engine is not needed--Kayaker Magic

Object movement can be scripted in the object.   

• Watch on YouTube
• Sorry for the audio problems. This is live capture.
• Also, particles were were turned off for the first half hour 
• and not fully implemented later, so the effects were not well shown.

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• Scripters don't need a physics engine to make a bullet go in a parabolic path.
• We know how to script a parabolic path, even though it is "rocket science." 
• We know how objects should behave under physics.

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• Kayaker got tired of trying to cope with various physics engines.
• So he stopped using them and scripted the movement himself.
• You can too.  Even if grids have a physics engine, you don't have to use it. 

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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

• OSCC15:  Dec 5.
• The Grand Finale Winners announcements for MachinimUWA VIII:  
• Sunday 12/13 6AM SLT (note its AM!!) 

• VWBPE Call for papers, Meet 3/9-12/2016. Proposals due by 1/17/2016
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. 

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Metaverse beginner help

• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Virtual Outworlding Table of Contents. Summary
• Newcomer help in virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds are about people. Communities, communication, shared goals
• Time conversion: put time/time zone into Google search to get your time 
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info

2015 FUTURE: HELP: PROMO: Metaverse in your browser? How close are we? WEBGL?

Metaverse in your browser?  
How close are we?  WEBGL? 
Updated 12/6/15

• We can show Metaverse on your browser now, but you can't interact.
• You can get full service, but it costs
• My ideal for Metaverse growth: the presence viewer
• A Dimension Beyond (coming soon)

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News and Notes

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• Kitely Merchant Fair 2015 Oct . 18-Nov 1, 2015 Open now
• 2015 UWA Art challenge: developing exhibit, contributions open till Oct 31
• OSCC15 - Call for Proposals  OSCC15:  Dec 5.
• Maria's grid survey, 2015
• Summer of Arts in 2015, Metropolis Metaversum
• Next WIP show: Oct 25 on Kitely, Cookie II, Hobo Sandbox
• Burn 2 opens Oct.17.  Burn2 Website 
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015
• Immersive Edge, a Hypergrid Story, Launches November 8 & 9, 2015
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info