2019 BIZ: Promo: MUVE: Use-cases for marketing user-managed virtual worlds. Think product differentiation. Think multiple markets. The Kitely model

Use-cases for marketing user-managed virtual worlds.  
Think product differentiation.  
Think multiple markets.    
The Kitely model

User-managed digital worlds have many potential uses, but "potential means you haven't done it yet."  Not all those uses will be comfortable under the same brand.  A bit of Design Thinking suggests  a reinvention.

A bit of design thinking

• What business are you in?
• Where is there a demand you can meet?
• What is a user-built world from the user perspective?
• The Proctor and Gamble model
• The Kitely model

• Update 6/11/2020 Field trip to Jezero Crater. Firestorm update for OpenSim. Metamodernism and Changing Literacy

2020 #VWEDU: Rezmela(TM): Set App 4 Creating text posters, producing a whole scene

Rezmela: Set App 4 
Creating text posters, 
producing a whole scene.

A demonstration of how the Rezmela system can be used to provide many alternative scenes in the same area.  

• Watch on YouTube
• Rezmela videos

• An instructor could create a classroom or other teaching space.
• Could clear the space for another scene.  
• And recreate the classroom when needed.  
• Thus one area could serve multiple classes.
• More articles about Rezmela after the break

• Update 1/23/2020 OSCC videos are up. SceneGate improvements. Brand New Grid: Rêves Fantastiques

2019 #VWEDU: WRITE: A Christmas Carol and the times it tells: Dickens project in virtual worlds

A Christmas Carol 
and the times it tells: 
Dickens project in virtual worlds

A presentation about the times represented in the famous story by Charles Dickens.

Dickens Resource Center

Click image to enlarge

• With research information focused on the Victorian era
• By the Community Virtual Library (CVL): 
• Real librarianship in Virtual Worlds
• A tour by the ACRL Virtual World interest group.
• A presentation by Valibrarian Gregg.
• The Dickens Project Returns to Second Life December 1, 2019

Go there

• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Dickens%20Project/245/65/23

A presentation?

• Well, where is the auditorium?
• This is not an auditorium presentation.
• How can you have a presentation without an auditorium?
• In a virtual word we often have a presentation in a place relevant to the subject.
• How does that work?  Where does the audience sit?  
• The avatars don't sit.  The walk around in the place. 
• That won't work.  They can't see the slides while they are walking.
• We don't present with slides.  The places they walk to do the job of the slides.
• You can't do a power-point presentation without slides.
• We don't usually do power-point presentations.
• Okay, so go on with your story  But you are doing it all wrong.

• update 12/19/2019: Dickens project continues. IMA releases simplified Scenegate viewer

2019 #VWEDU MUVE SceneGate improvements: Starting, voice, vision, performance, grid manager, button groups

SceneGate improvements: Starting, 
voice, vision, performance, 
grid manager, button groups

SceneGate improvements for beginning users and those with disabilities.   This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0). 

Scenegate full screen
Click image to enlarge

• The SceneGate Viewer open beta: Rationale, documentation, support, roadmap

• Update 12/12/2019: OpenSimulator Community Conference Dec 14, 15 2019; IMA releases simplified Scenegate viewer

2019 #VWEDU: OpenSimulator Community Conference 2019 Dec. 14-15. Dec 15 events: Selected presentations with emphasis on education and broad interest

OpenSimulator Community Conference 2019 (OSCC) Dec. 14-15.  
Dec 15 events:  Selected presentations with emphasis 
on education and broad interest 

OpenSimulator Community Conference (OSCC) is not all tech.  It is not even mostly tech.  It is mostly about uses of OpenSimpulator, especiallu in education.  And you do have time to catch a presentation--they mostly take 20 minutes.  Here are my suggestions for Sun. Dec. 15.

OpenSimulator Community Conference

Last year

• OSCC conference 2019

The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the developer and user community creating the OpenSimulator software. The conference features presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and social events across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base.

Update 12/12/2019: OpenSimulator Community Conference Dec 14, 15 2019; IMA releases simplified Scenegate viewer

2019 #VWEDU: OpenSimulator Community Conference 2019 Dec. 14-15. Dec 14 events: Selected presentations with emphasis on education and broad interest

OpenSimulator Community Conference 2019 (OSCC) Dec. 14-15.  
Dec 14 events:  Selected presentations with emphasis 
on education and broad interest 

OpenSimulator Community Conference (OSCC) is not all tech.  It is not even mostly tech.  It is mostly about uses of OpenSimpulator, especiallu in education.  And you do have time to catch a presentation--they mostly take 20 minutes.  Here are my suggestions for Sat. Dec. 14.

OpenSimulator Community Conference

Last year

• OSCC conference 2019

The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the developer and user community creating the OpenSimulator software. The conference features presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and social events across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base.

• Update 12/12/2019: OpenSimulator Community Conference Dec 14, 15 2019; IMA releases simplified Scenegate viewer

2019 #VWEDU: #DTA: Just-In-Time (JIT) learning in virtual schools, maybe with DTA coaching. Language as an example

Just-In-Time (JIT) learning 

in virtual schools,

maybe with DTA coaching.
Language as an example
Updated 1019/2019

Some suggestions on how to use virtual worlds to provide JIT Learning.  Further suggestions are offered on how a Digital Teaching Assistant ( DTA) and game-based learning could be incorporated for more efficient learning. 
This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).

The Empty Classroom

Just-in-time learning

• JIT Learning: Just-in-time learning, instruction provided just when it is needed.
• Popular for corporate instruction.  Obviously beneficial for learning.  
• A big advantage in Hypertext.  Click for help with unfamiliar words.
• Not practical for book learning--you don't need to know it when it is right in front of you.
• But consider the instruction manual: The Secret of the Instruction Manual
• You read it, start work, and soon realize you don't remember what to do next.
• Conveniently, you still have the manual at hand, so you get JIT learning.
• And once you do it, you really know how to do it.  
• To use JIT learning in school you create conditions where the student needs the  learning.
• A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
• The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary

2019 MUVE: Content: Save an OAR file (copy of OpenSim region): Honor creator rights--Lisa Laxton

Save an OAR file
(copy of OpenSim region): 
Honor creator rights--Lisa Laxton

How to save an OAR file and honor creator rights.

• Reposted from OAR Tech Tips by Lisa Laxton CEO, 
• Infinite Metaverse Alliance LLC

What is an OAR?

Around the Open Simulator community, we hear things like "save your OAR" or "get an OAR from Outworldz". For the non-technical users learning to host their own regions or grids, OAR is an acronym for OpenSimulator Archive. It is a file type that can contain all of the assets of a region, its terrain, and its parcels. In other words, an OAR can be a complete backup of a virtual world known as a region in OpenSimulator. This feature allows a region owner to save and restore "backups" of their region.

• #VWEDU update 6/13/2019 Writers on the MUVEs, Teams for education

2019 #VWEDU: A horse ride through Coopersville (MUVE) 1905. Go back in time a little over 100 years.

A horse ride through Coopersville (MUVE) 1905.  
Go back in time a little over 100 years.  

Coopersville is a MUVE (virtual world) model of a US town of the early 20th Century.  It has houses of that era (houses of the Victorian and Edwardian times), offers clothing of that period, has transportation of that period (streetcars, early Fords, and horses), plays music of that time (especially ragtime), and has the early flying things (Wright Flyer, hot air balloons).  Just right for a site visit by a class studying that part of history.

• Watch on YouTube

Go there

• Hypergrid address: 
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Coopersville
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the world map, click Find, TP
• http://hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Coopersville
• In Kitely, put the hop in the address (top) bar of the viewer, press Enter

• Coopersville website
• Coopersville Kitely location
• #VWEDU: Edwardian Era: Coopersville. The Titanic. Kitty hawk. filling stations. Mary Pickford. The Entertainer

• #VWEDU update 6/13/2019 Writers on the MUVEs, Teams for education

2019 MUVE: HG: Ruth and Roth 2.0 Mesh Avatar Project HGluv is home to a version of Ruth and Roth

Ruth and Roth 2.0 Mesh Avatar Project
HGluv is home to a version of Ruth and Roth
Updated 5/4/2019

Ruth and Roth 2.0 are low-poly mesh bodies, specifically designed for OpenSimulator. They are built to use standard Second Life(TM) UV maps using scratch-built open source mesh bodies by Shin Ingen with other open source contributions from the OpenSimulator Community.

Arrive at HGluv

"NOTICE:  This is not the "Official" distribution point for the Ruth avatar.   This is a modified version that we are developing to eventually share with the main group."   

• The official, latest version of Ruth can be found at Outworld GitHub (Fork).
• GitHub by Shin Ingen 
• New Ruth/Roth GitHub (Cited by Bill Blight)
• What is a GitHub? 
• MeWe Community Page for Ruth/Roth
• OpenSim Group: OSGrid RuthAndRoth
• Austin Tate's Blog
• Ruth 2.0 and Roth 2.0 are AGPL licensed
• HG address: 
• grid.hgluv.com:8302:Luv Plaza
• Put the HG address in the Find bar of the world map, click Find, TP

• #VWEDU update 5/2/2019 The #VWEDU initiative. Entrepreneurial educators

2019 EDU: MUVE: Understanding the Millennial Student: using virtual realities in teaching and learning

Understanding the Millennial Student:
using virtual realities in teaching and learning

In "Reading the River: The Millennial Student, Using Virtual Realities in Teaching and Learning" Don Margulis, Professor of Psychology, discusses the value of incorporating virtual worlds into the classroom and frames a context for understanding the millennial student.

• Watch on YouTube
• Millennials (Wikipedia)

This segment from "Paddling Faster than the Current", directed by filmmaker Rose Carlson, portrays the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) program at Middlesex Community College. 

In "Reading the River: The Millennial Student, Using Virtual Realities in Teaching and Learning" Don Margulis, Professor of Psychology, discusses the value of incorporating virtual worlds into the classroom and frames a context for understanding the millennial student.

• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL)

• MUVE update 4/18/2019 Funding sources for education. Entrepreneurial educators

MUVE: EVENT: OpenSim Fest with some new tricks

OpenSim Fest with some new tricks

New things I found at OpenSim Fest 2019.  AvatarFest has been a creative effort which has celebrated the people of Open Sim for years, and AvatarFest 2018 was it's final year. In the spirit of this incredible yearly festival, OpenSim Fest begins with our first festival starting in March 2019.

Opensim Fest Rises in March 2019.

OpenSim Fest Weekend and beyond

"There are two parts to the festival; the first is the weekend of live performances on the Opensim Fest grid on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of March 2019. and second. you will be able to visit the region via the hypergrid to see the exhibits until the 6th April 2019. Nearer the time of the festival a full schedule will be posted and pages will be posted to the site with a full list of performers and exhibitors.

• MUVE update 3/7/2019 Opensim Fest exhibits thru April 6; Time to shift away from G+

2019 MUVE: EVENT: OpenSim Fest rises

EVENT: OpenSim Fest rises

 AvatarFest has been a creative effort which has celebrated the people of Open Sim for years, and AvatarFest 2018 was it's final year. In the spirit of this incredible yearly festival, OpenSim Fest begins with our first festival starting in March 2019.

Opensim Fest Rises in March 2019.

OpenSim Fest Weekend and beyond

"There are two parts to the festival; the first is the weekend of live performances on the Opensim Fest grid on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of March 2019. and second. you will be able to visit the region via the hypergrid to see the exhibits until the 6th April 2019. Nearer the time of the festival a full schedule will be posted and pages will be posted to the site with a full list of performers and exhibitors.

• MUVE update 2/28/2019 OpenSim Fest starts Mar 1 Sci-Fi EXPO nears the end

2019 WW: Voice problems with Vivox on your grid? Suggestions for plan B

Voice problems with Vivox on your grid? 
Suggestions for plan B

Vivox has demonstrated that it can be out for two weeks or longer.  For educational or most business uses that is a single point of failure.  An alternative is needed.  Some grids may offer fallback options.  Web-worlds can provide a fast fallback with no advance preparation.

ACRL Virtual World interest group

Possible voice emergency alternatives to Vivox

• Discord
• Skype

Web-worlds are alternatives

• 3DWebWorldz
• CybaLOUNGE
• You can visit either of these as a guest, without registering.
• No preparation needed.

• MUVE update 1/31/2019 Kitely Organizations, OpenSim Fest, G+exit

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2019 EDU: MUVE: Themed grids/MUVEs focus on what the customer wants

Themed grids or virtual places, 
focus on what the customer wants

The Empty Classroom

Themes, grids, websites, MUVEs

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• MUVE update 1/10/2019: Pecan Pie murder, OpenSim Fest, Edu Funding

2019 MUVE: HG: Why am I talking about MUVEs when I am really talking about virtual worlds?

Why am I talking about MUVEs when 
I am really talking about virtual worlds?

Researchers use the term "MUVE" to stand for "Multi-User Virtual Environment."   We virtual worlders use the term "virtual world" to mean the same thing.  These are ingroup terms for different ingroups.  I want this blog to share information between these groups, so I speak the language of both groups.  Here I report on some of the work of the researchers.  

An informal writing class in a MUVE

MUVE:  Multi-User Virtual Environment

• What is Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE) | IGI Global
• Multi-User Virtual Environments: History, Contributing Theories and Current Status
• Scholarly articles for Multi-User Virtual Environment

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• MUVE: (virtual worlds) update 12/30/2018

2018 PROMO: TECH: MUVE: selected OSCC exhibits

MUVE: selected OSCC exhibits

Photos of some OSCC exhibits, with web links to help you follow up your interests. Links to videos of the sessions will be given when available.

OpenSimulator Community Conference

• OSCC2018
• About OSCC
• Visit the exhibits any time
• The exhibits are expected to remain up till the next OSCC.
• Videos:  OSCC 2018 Presentations
• Mainstreaming Virtual World Learning Colloquium. And some suggestions

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• MUVE: (virtual worlds) update 12/27/2018

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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 MUVE: EDU: WW: Communities online in 3D. Meet the MUVErs

Communities online in 3D.
Meet the MUVErs

Online MultiUser Virtual Environments (MUVEs) are becoming widely available as tools for social media, education and organizations.   The delivery system has been by a company hosting many interconnected MUVEs but an alternative is emerging to allow communities or organizations to manage their own themed MUVES while the technical work is managed by a technical company.

Walking tour of a building

Online MultiUser Virtual Environment (MUVE)

• Virtual environment: Simulated 3D space created in a computer
• Online MUVE: A MUVE accessed over the internet.
• Community: Group of people with common interests and shared goals.
• Communities usually have a place where they get together.
• As social media has developed on the web, that place can be online.
• A themed online MUVE can offer a place where people get together.
• They get together, represented by human-like figures.
• In a simulated place representing their common interests (the theme).
• They talk about their common interests, share information and make plans.

Who would be interested?

• Educational systems: Online education expands capacity.   
• Companies: Meet customers where they live.  Meet workers where they work.
• Service organizations: Confer with clients while working from home.
•  #socialmedia  #virtualworld  #MUVE  #hypergrid  #retirement  #education 
• #meeting 

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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming

• 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
• VORTEX VISIONS: Keepers of the Stone Paperback by Yvonne M DeBandi
• Selby's daily events and news collection: Virtual worlds are real 
• Comedy Videos from the virtual worlds
• Web-world videos

Metaverse places and activities

• Institute for New Paradigms
• 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: MUVE: 12th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education re:Vision: the future of creation within the MUVE ecosystem

12th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education
 re:Vision: the future of creation within the MUVE ecosystem

VWBPE is a virtual conference conducted in a MUVE. Participants attend the conference in a virtual reality setting that includes conference rooms, theatres, exposition halls, meeting spaces, and other venues similar to a brick and mortar conference. The conference is free to attend. The cost of the conference is covered by sponsorship and donations.

Virtual Education Journal

The Virtual Education Journal (VEJ) publishes articles from educators K-16 in a variety of online and virtual environments. It serves as a resource of best practices being used across the metaverse. 

Executive summary

• Date: April 4-6, 2019
• The call for proposals for VWBPE 2019 is now open.
• The deadline for Presentation proposals is 14 January 2019.
• Proposals for Exhibits and Immersive Experiences are open now as well. 
• The deadline for these is 11 February 2019.
• Call for Proposals (Details)
• Call for sponsors
•  #socialmedia  #virtualworld  #MUVE  #hypergrid

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