2022 Your own place in the metaverse. Not very expensive. If you shop around. But it will need people to hold you.

Your own place in the metaverse.  

Not very expensive.   

If you shop around.   

But it will need people to hold you.

The metaverse is being built by people who live in it.  We are building it to suit ourselves. Or we hire people to build to suit us.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Build Your Own Metaverse -- and Share it! | Agnes Larsson | TED
• In the multitude of metaverses that exist there are infinite possibilities for inclusivity and creativity. 
• Minecraft's game director Agnes Larsson shares how the experience of building and sharing metaverses can foster dialogue, friendship and trust.

2021 #VWEDU: DTA: The bots of Magnolia Garden. Bots can give routine help while the teacher helps those who really need it.

The bots of Magnolia Garden.  

Bots can give routine help 

while the teacher helps those who really need it.

Bots can guide students in the practice of skills.

• Watch on YouTube

Quest-based learning, DTA as guide

• Project based learning.
• Read and follow instructions. A needed reading skill.
• The Secret of the Instruction Manual
• Solo or team work.  
• Teacher can be present for those needing help.

Go there

• Hypergrid address:
• grid.metaversedepot.com:8002:IMA Outpost Alpha 
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map.  Click Find, TP
• Metaverse Depot Grid (registration required)
• http://grid.metaversedepot.com:8002/

2020 #DTA: #VWEDU: OpenSim Traveller badge: Knowledge base. What you need to know to be a world traveller in SceneGate. Travelling the Hypergrid.

World Traveller Badge: Knowledge Base (KB).  
What you need to know 
to be a world traveller in SceneGate.
Travelling the Hypergrid.

A collection of information you need to travel the Hypergrid easily and to teach others how to travel the Hypergrid.  Specifies the knowledge expected of one who holds a DTA World Traveller Badge.

Places panel

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A DTA badge page

• This page has the information we think people need to travel the Hypergrid with SceneGate.
• It will be updated as needed

What is the Hypergrid?

• A grid of grids.  A lot of OpenSim grids connected so you can travel from one to another.
• Like a national highway system connects cities.  But much faster.
• You just teleport.  May take nearly a minute.  
• Key terms: region. hypergrid address, suitcase, places panel 

• Update 5/5/2020 Kitely Market Passes $250,000 in Sales. Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic

2020 VW: IMA: SceneGate for OpenSimulator: the Market button, grid money notice and button, and find friends online

SceneGate for OpenSimulator:
the market button, 
grid money notice and button 
and find friends online

SceneGate will adjust its services to fit OpenSimulator, cleaning up some viewer features left over from services on a previous grid.  Since SceneGate must adjust for multiple grids, the adjustment is complicated. 

A viewer can do better than that

• From comments in the Kitely Sunday meeting and conversations on the forum, I learned of four items of user interest:
• A Market button on the viewer should take the user to a market they could use.
• The Buy grid money button should take the user to where they can buy grid money.
• The grid money amount notice should give the correct amount for the avatar.
• Some users wanted a notice of friends online before they login.
• The first three of those are viewer issues, so i asked the SceneGate devs about them.
• The fourth item is a grid issue, but suggested a feature that SceneGate is aiming for.

• Update 4/30/2020 Multi-college diversity in Kitely. OpenSim grids show growth during pandemic Kitely upgrades for better scalability

2020 #VWEDU: BIZ: Text-friendly addresses for Hypergrid. Landmarks work fine, but not in blogs or class assignments in text. SceneGate has a solution

Text-friendly addresses for Hypergrid.   
Landmarks work fine, but not in blogs 
or class assignments in text.. 
SceneGate has a solution.

To give Hypergrid destinations in text, we need text-friendly addresses.  SceneGate  can provide those.  They may only work in SceneGate, but in an instructional context all the students could be using SceneGate.

Get a text-friendly 

Hypergrid address

The problem

• For bloggers and teachers.
• Hypergrid region addresses work, but they don't carry location coordinates.
• A Firestorm Hop carries location coordinates, but you can't easily get a correct Hop except in your home grid. 
• Landmarks work well, but you can't give them in text.
• Is there a source for text-friendly Hypergrid addresses? 
• SceneGate has a solution. Try this:
• x-grid-info://grid.metaversedepot.com:8002/region/Selby's Place/130/131/21

• Update 4/2/2020 VWBPE 13th Annual Conference, March 26-28 2020. VWBPE Immersive events continue Want To Teach ESL Online? A Dimension Beyond Offers Free online Meeting Rooms. Storylink radio from Seanchai Libraries

2020 IMA: VW: IMA seeks help on project converting thousands of public domain motion capture animations for use in OpenSim.

IMA seeks help on project 
converting thousands of 
public domain motion capture animations 
for use in OpenSim.

In virtual worlds, you dance with an animation. IMA has thousands of public domain motion capture animations that could benefit OpenSim if they were converted to SL internal animation format.   IMA needs an experienced animator to develop a conversion procedure. 

Gentlefur

• Watch on YouTube
• Gotta Dance! Dancing in the virtual worlds
• Digital animation (search)
• Computer animation (Wikipedia)

Nutshell

• IMA has thousands of public domain motion capture animations.
• These could benefit OpenSim users if they were in the right format
• That's  SL internal animation format.   
• IMA (Infinite Metaverse Alliance) seeks offer them to the OpenSim Community.
• IMA needs an experienced animator to develop a conversion procedure.
• And volunteers to execute the procedure on the animation files.
• If you would like to participate, please contact Shelenn.Ayres@gmail.com
• SceneGate OpenSim viewer with beginner and extended modes. Summary

• update 3/5/2020 VWBPE 13th Annual Conference, March 26-28 2020 VWBPE Immersive events start March 15 IMA SceneGate Viewer Release 1.0.0 for Linux and Windows.

2019 #VWEDU: Scenegate improvements: onboarding, accessibility, performance, usability

Scenegate improvements: 
onboarding, accessibility, 
performance, usability
Updated 1/25/2020

Scenegate is a new viewer for OpenSimulator grids, directed at the needs of newcomers and particularly newcomers entering to take classes or to attend meetings. It offers a simplified screen with few options--just those needed for classes and meetings. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

Meeting at IMA Alpha

Contents

• Onboarding
• Accessibility
• Performance
• Usability

2019 IMA: BIZ: Theft of digital content. What can we do about it?

Theft of digital content.  
What can we do about it?

Part of successful selling is creating and maintaining a brand valued by potential customers.  Content creators in virtual worlds may want to pay more attention to the brand they are creating, especially if they are interested in suppressing illegitimate sales of their products. 

• Content theft quietly demoralizing for creators – - Hypergrid Business
• Metropolis deletes infringing content, plans more bans
• Creators: you are creating your brand; whether you attend to that is up to you
• Fashion show Feb 11 at Kitely Market Fashion Expo
• Property Rights in a Virtual World
• Online Markets

• MUVE update 2/21/2019 Sci-Fi EXPO, OpenSim Fest, G+ MeWe Importer

2018 BIZ: Thales teams with Infinite Metaverse Alliance (IMA) to work on next generation collaborative and training tools.

Thales teams with Infinite Metaverse Alliance (IMA) 
to work on next generation collaborative and training tools.

Report of an alliance between Thales and Infinite Metaverse Alliance.  More information will be made available as the projects move from private repositories to public repositories.   #socialmedia  #virtualworld  #MUVE  #hypergrid 

Meeting at IMA Alpha

• Thales and Infinite Metaverse Alliance (IMA) team up to work together on the next generation collaborative and training tools.

Virtual Reality, increasing connectivity, and connection speed are enabling people to work better together. We are on the verge of a next generation of collaborative and training tools where virtual reality will drive working together to be no longer time and place dependent or restricted by visual boundaries.

2018 WW: HG: IMA: Web-worlds and OpenSim coming together

Web-worlds and OpenSim 
working together

Web-worlds and OpenSimulator are developing interconnections that make use of the strong points of each system.  In the future. web-worlds will serve limited needs on their own and will help users get into installed virtual worlds when more powerful services are needed.

Murky Mansion on Kitely 

(OpenSimulator)

• The last werewolf of Blanken, Part 1
• Oars transferred from OpenSim to 3DWebWorldz

Murky Mansion on 3DWW

• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• OpenSimulator
• Together---each doing what it does best
• Web-worlds for easy access.
• OpenSim for better builds, scripts, and resources.
• Web-worlds as gateway to OpenSimulator

Two Web worlds in public beta

• 3DWebWorldz
• CybaLOUNGE
• You can visit either of these as a guest, without registering.
• Guest entry encourages enter-on-impulse 

2018 WW: EDU: CybaLOUNGE Dev meeting every other Friday: Metaverse school

CybaLOUNGE Dev meeting 
every other Friday:   
Metaverse school

Metaverse School begins classes in October.  Here is preliminary information about the school.

WWDev meeting
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• Meeting with CybaLOUNGE developer every other Friday, noon Pacific time
• 9/7, 9/21, and so forth.
• Meeting is usually announced here:3D web-worlds of the browser (G+)
• Location: CybaLOUNGE (location: The Web Show) 
• Web-world development 2017: Dev/users bi-weekly meeting, Fridays

The school (facility) 

• This school (facility) is open 
• When: 24/7/365(6)
• Where: On your browser, any internet connected place in the world.
• Developer/owner Dieter Heyne
• Metaverse School (Web page)
• CybaLOUNGE (The web-based school)
• Go ahead, try it.  Enter as a guest.  No registration, no password. 
• Just pick a name and an avatar.  

2018 ART: IMA: Infinite Metaverse Alliance (IMA) celebrates Arcadia-Aley with miniaturized display of her work

Infinite Metaverse Alliance (IMA) 
celebrates Arcadia-Aley with 
miniaturized display of her work

Works by Arcadia Asylum, Aley Arai, (and other names) have been gathered by Ada Radius into an archive now being maintained by New Media Arts in Kitely grid.   They are accessible to the Hypergrid and should be full perm and free to copy.  Here IMA displays selected pieces in miniature.  These also are full perm and should be free to copy.

The famous Bodega Supermarket 

in miniature 

• Exhibit runs September 1st-October1st, 2018
• Go there, HG address:
• hypergrid.org:8002:IMA Outpost Alpha
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map.  Click Find, TP

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• Arcadia-Aley Library created by New Media Arts
• Infinite Metaverse Alliance
• Articles about Infinite Metaverse Alliance (IMA) in this blog
• New Media Arts, Inc.

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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming

• Registration Deadline for the Rockcliffe Conference is August 31
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• HYPERGRIDABLE grids open 24/7: Interactive spreadsheet for Hypergridders.
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Hypergrid Destinations
• IMA Social Web and Virtual World Events, Music, and Meeting Calendar
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• OpenSimWorld Events
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Promotion for virtual worlds and everything in 'em
• Selby's daily events and news collection:  Virtual worlds are real 
• Comedy Videos from the virtual worlds
• Web-world videos

Metaverse places and activities

• List of Social VR/Virtual Worlds by Ryan Schultz
• Search this blog with the search bar, upper left.
• Hypergrid Writer's Community
• Metaverse Jobs; Job Listings
• IMA projects
• 3D WEBSITES A2Z
• 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community) 
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• Virtual Outworlding news collection 
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog

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2018 PEOPLE: HG: IMA: HYPERGRIDABLE grids open 24/7: Interactive spreadsheet for Hypergridders.

HYPERGRIDABLE grids open 24/7:    
Interactive spreadsheet for Hypergridders. 

Infinite Metaverse Alliance offers an interactive spreadsheet of grids on the hypergrid.  To use it interactively, you copy it to your own machine and work with your copy.

Meeting at IMA Alpha

• Interactive OpenSim 24/7 active Grid List for G+ Hypergridders 2018
• This spreadsheet began in 2015 
• It is monitored & maintained periodically by Shawn Maloney,
• who can be found in G+ as ...   shawnkmaloney OSWRS .
• You can leave a comment in any cell/box by right-clicking & scroll down. 
• You will be answered promptly. 
• Infinite Metaverse Alliance - Virtual Worlds United

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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming

• Registration Deadline for the Rockcliffe Conference is August 31
• -
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Hypergrid Destinations
• IMA Social Web and Virtual World Events, Music, and Meeting Calendar
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• OpenSimWorld Events
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Promotion for virtual worlds and everything in 'em
• Selby's daily events and news collection:  Virtual worlds are real 
• Comedy Videos from the virtual worlds
• Web-world videos

Metaverse places and activities

• List of Social VR/Virtual Worlds by Ryan Schultz
• Search this blog with the search bar, upper left.
• Hypergrid Writer's Community
• Metaverse Jobs; Job Listings
• IMA projects
• 3D WEBSITES A2Z
• 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community) 
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• Virtual Outworlding news collection 
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog

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2017\8 IMA: PROMO: In user-built virtual worlds: we can play, work, create, collaborate, and share with other people

User-built virtual worlds: where we can play, work, create, collaborate, and share with other people

User-built virtual worlds are a form of virtual reality with standard user controls developed in Second Life and extended to OpenSimulator. The standard user controls let users move from one virtual world to another without having to learn new control methods. Users build worlds to suit their purposes: Education, art, entertainment, storytelling, games, sailing, racing, model railroading. 

User-built

• We get or make avatars to represent us in the virtual worlds.
• We can build things to make our virtual world look the way we want.
• We can write scripts to make our things do what we want them to do.
• Or we can buy things already built and scripted and put them in our places.
• It is much like furnishing a home.  And we can have virtual homes if we want.

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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming

• Registration Deadline for the Rockcliffe Conference is August 31
• -
• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Hypergrid Destinations
• IMA Social Web and Virtual World Events, Music, and Meeting Calendar
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• OpenSimWorld Events
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Promotion for virtual worlds and everything in 'em
• Selby's daily events and news collection:  Virtual worlds are real 
• Comedy Videos from the virtual worlds
• Web-world videos

Metaverse places and activities

• List of Social VR/Virtual Worlds by Ryan Schultz
• Search this blog with the search bar, upper left.
• Hypergrid Writer's Community
• Metaverse Jobs; Job Listings
• IMA projects
• 3D WEBSITES A2Z
• 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community) 
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• Virtual Outworlding news collection 
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog

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2018 EDU: WW: PEOPLE: Social 3D and all that other stuff (VR, Virtual Worlds, etc)

Social 3D and 
all that other stuff 
(VR, Virtual Worlds, etc.)

Updated 8/17/2018

Computer simulated virtual environments are becoming easily available at low cost. They have long been available in computer games, but those are of interest only to gamers, mostly young.  Adults are more interested in social activities, either directly productive (business, education), or for entertainment (music, stage performances, travel).

• Watch on YouTube

• What is the Best Definition of Social VR?
• Visit Stonehenge in your browser: Virtual field trip
• List of Social VR/Virtual Worlds by Ryan Schultz

Another sample of social 3D

• Visit a virtual train station (on your desktop).
• Click on the screen to go 3D.  
• The little half-circle at the bottom of your screen represents you. 
• If there are other people there, they may appear as a box with a picture.
• In social 3D people are usually represented as avatars.
• (Registered users can provide a picture.) 
• Move your cursor sideways to look around
• Press the keyboard up-arrow to move forward
• If you see something interesting, hover the little red circle on it.
• It may do something if it sees you looking at it.
• Press Esc to get back to old 2D controls.
• 3D WEBSITES A2Z

VR: virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment, that incorporates mainly auditory and visual, but also other types of sensory feedback like haptic. -- Wikipedia

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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming

• Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
• Hypergrid Destinations
• IMA Social Web and Virtual World Events, Music, and Meeting Calendar
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• OpenSimWorld Events
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid
• Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
• Promotion for virtual worlds and everything in 'em
• Selby's daily events and news collection:  Virtual worlds are real 
• Comedy Videos from the virtual worlds
• Web-world videos

Metaverse places and activities

• List of Social VR/Virtual Worlds by Ryan Schultz
• Search this blog with the search bar, upper left.
• Hypergrid Writer's Community
• Metaverse Jobs; Job Listings
• IMA projects
• 3D WEBSITES A2Z
• 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community) 
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• Virtual Outworlding news collection 
• Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
• Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog

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