2022 Metaverse in your browser. Learning Mozilla Hubs Spoke. You don't have to buy a headset. Use your smart phone, tablet, or laptop.

Metaverse in your browser.  

Learning Mozilla Hubs Spoke.  

You don't have to buy a headset.  

Use your smart phone, tablet, or laptop.

Easy access metaverse.  You already have all the equipment you need.  You just have to learn how.

• Watch on YouTube
• Learning Mozilla Hubs Spoke
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Sxirpjf5g
• Tutorial : how to use Mozilla Hubs 
• Start with  an existing scene.
• The interface can show you how the objects were created, loaded, maintained, and placed in the scene. 
• The tutorial will also show both the Spoke development area and the related companion Hubs Room.  

Mozilla Hubs

• Mozilla Hubs 
• Share virtual spaces with your friends, co-workers, and communities. 
• When you create a room with Hubs, you’ll have a private virtual meeting space that you can instantly share - no downloads or VR headset necessary.

2022 Metaverse Chronicles: Immtalks. The metaverse that runs in your browser. Or tablet. Or smart phone. Anything that will run a modern browser..

Metaverse Chronicles:  Immtalks.  

The metaverse that runs in your browser.  

Or tablet.  Or smart phone. 

Anything that will run a modern browser.. 

Visit the metaverse with equipment and software you already have.  Go when people are available to talk to you.  Ask questions of long-time metaversers.

• Watch on YouTube
• Discover ImmTalks! Immtalks #1-Who Is The Metaverse? 
• Friday October 7, 2022 
• in Immworlds Virtual World. 
• Noon PDT, 3PM EDT, 20:00 GMT 

Immtalks

• Immtalks are exciting ten minute presentations in the Immworlds virtual world with a lively discussion afterwards. 
• ImmTalks will help you make sense of the Metaverse and what it actually means to you. 
• Who Is The Metaverse is presented by Steve LaVigne-CFO of A Dimension Beyond, Inc.
• ImmTalks offers presenters with extensive experience in the Metaverse giving short talks about subjects that will give you new insight. 
• We will explore virtual worlds and the many tools that help you to success and understanding of different uses for virtual spaces. 
• After each talk there will be a 20 minute discussion about the presentation subject and much more. 
• This is a time to learn and share with people in the know and get to make new connections and friends. 
• Immtalks is a presentation of Immworlds-the web based virtual world system that is only 1 click away! 

Links

• Immworlds website
• How to get into ImmTalks
• Need help with Voice?
• Immworlds Computer Requirements

2022 Metaverse for languages: Chatterdale Mystery: A simulated place where everyone speaks the target language. And a mystery to solve.

Metaverse for languages:  

Chatterdale Mystery: 

 A simulated place where everyone speaks the target language.  

And a mystery to solve.

A virtual world is a natural for learning a new language.  Everything about the place can be in the target language

• Watch on YouTube
• Chatterdale Mystery (Virtual language village in OpenSim)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD8Prip1Vpk

• Chatterdale Mystery is a quest in Chatterdale, the first virtual language village on OpenSim.
• The village is built by 3DLES.
• 3DLES online office.

2022 Rockets in the metaverse. International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely with Mike Lorrey. History of spacelight and projections of a visit to Mars.

Rockets in the metaverse.  

International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely with Mike Lorrey.  

History of spacelight and 

projections of a visit to Mars.

Using the metaverse to tell about space is a natural.  They are both about the future.

• Watch on YouTube
• Mike Lorrey illustrates teaching the history of spaceflight.
• Showing a simulation of Mars for the ACRL Virtual World Interest Group
• The International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely! 
• Founded in 2005 in Second Life, the ISM is maintained by a US 501(c)(3) non-profit incorporated in Texas. 
• This world in Kitely is still under development, but we are opening it to the public to get your suggestions and to let you see what is happening here. 
• Our group has a number of projects going on, both in building and in developing some interesting infrastructure. 
• Watch the Kitely Community Calendar for event announcements, or just drop in to see what is going on.
• ISM web page

2022 Brainstorming for writers in the metaverse. Ideas are easy, if... If you develop your ideation skills.

Brainstorming for writers in the metaverse.  

Ideas are easy, if...   

If you develop your ideation skills.

Ideas come easy with practice.  Just save all evaluation till later.

• Watch on YouTube
• Visit the scene:
• https://3dww.a2zsg.com/3dlogin/world/?world=47
• Visit the main site:
• https://3dwebworldz.com/
• Brainstorming
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming

2022 Metaverse for practice by first responders. Role play or serious practice Virtual Tornado Rescue: Training practice.

Metaverse for practice by first responders.  

Role play or serious practice.  

Virtual Tornado Rescue: 

Training practice.

A simulation of a tornado rescue created as an example of immersive learning in a virtual world for education and delivery of library resources. 

• Watch on YouTube
• Virtual Tornado Rescue: Training Practice
• First responders: to an emergency (accident, natural disaster, or terrorism).
• First Responder of Second Life
• Virtually a disaster

2022 Can people hold collaborative meetings in the metaverse? Business meetings where people work together--remotely

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Can people hold collaborative meetings in the metaverse?  

Business meetings where people work together--remotely.

A webworld discussion

A discussion and demonstration of how we hold meetings in the metaverse.

• Watch on YouTube 
• Metaverse school (YouTube)
• .Immworlds
• Immworlds Information

2021 #VWEDU: Metaverse quests: The quest model, serious games, inquiry-based learning. Score-keeping and display, learning principles. Quest template.

Metaverse quests: 

The quest model, serious games, inquiry-based learning.  

Score-keeping and display, learning principles.  

Quest template.

A quest can be for something useful, such as an educational achievement.   

• Watch on YouTube
• Go directly to the location
• https://3dww.a2zsg.com/3dlogin/world/?world=250
• Note: you may have to reload to get everything to appear
• Reload: button, lower left, circling arrows.  
• Go to 3DWebWorldz.  Medieval quest is under adventures. 
• https://3dwebworldz.com/

A serious game

• Learning the nomenclature.  That's learning the names of things.
• The vocabulary of a foreign language.
• The correct names for the specialized objects in any technical field.
• These usually have to be overlearned so that accurate recall is no effort.
• Treasure hunts can provide serious games to practice that vocabulary skill.
• They can also  provide formative assessment indicating level of achievement.
• Inquiry-based learning
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry-based_learning
• To introduce a social element, form teams with a team assignment,  

2022 Metaverse: Can we have a metaverse connected and decentralized? Yes. The hypergrid is a working proof of concept. Web-worlds could be next.

Metaverse:  Can we have a metaverse connected and decentralized?    

Yes.  The hypergrid is a working proof of concept.  

Web-worlds could be next. 

A mini-metaverse is already in operation.  OpenSimulator/hypergrid has most of the characteristics that people are describing for the future metaverse.  

• Watch on YouTube
• What OpenSimulator/hypergrid needs to qualify as the beginning metaverse. It already has most of the needed features: A meeting in the metaverse.

• The hypergrid is a working proof of concept.
• It presently connects several hundred independent grids.
• All are running OpenSimulator (opensource).
• The hypergrid is a set of protocols that support exchanges of data between grids.
• OpenSimulator offers a glimpse of what a decentralized metaverse might look like
• Metaverse: the many worlds model. How can the metaverse be decentralized and interconnected? Metaverse hub

Are these grids decentralized?

• They are run by independent operators, mostly individuals.
• Many people are running their grids on their own home computers.
• (That is real ownership!)
• Many of these grids are not for commercial purposes.
• I don' see how you can get more decentralized.

What does connected mean here?

• You have a home grid where you log in,
• You can teleport from that grid to any other connected grid.
• You can carry exportable assets with you on that trip.
• You can add people from other grids to your contact list.
• You can send text messages and exportable assets to people on other grids.
• People on other grids can teleport to your place.  
• You can let people from other grids build on your place.

What are the pros and cons of connections?

User pro

• Access to more places, events, and people.
• Ability to collaborate with people in other grids.

User con

• Risk of exposure to dishonest grid operations.

Operator Pro

• Enhanced offering to users.
• Increased traffic flow from potential customers

Operator con

• Makes it easy for customers to try out other grids.
• Expose customers to risks on other grids.

Could that model fit the current metaverse platforms?

• Current technology could handle it.
• The gating factor might be getting cooperation from grid owners.
• Security would by a main issue.
• Commercial grids may be reluctant to let people jump off their grid to a competitor.

Alternative: metaverse hub

• There might be a market for a hub that manages entry credentials for multiple parts. 
• Commercial grids running might be willing to use a hub if it brought them traffic. 
• A hub could use webGL browser based tech to offer easy entry. 
• Then offer teleport to cooperating grids.  
• If a download/install is needed, the hub could handle that.
• There might be a business plan here.
• Alternatively the hub might be an opensource project by cooperating grids 

Imagining MHB (Metaverse hub)

• This plan is largely based on the OpenSimulator hypergrid.
• Hypergrid is a set of protocols that support interconnection among Open

Major services

• MHB is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing interconnection among metaverse places (grids).
• MHB seeks support from hardware vendors and others interested in boosting the use of graphics on the internet.
• MHB may run a small virtual world, but it will not compete with commercial virtual worlds.
• MHB will manage the credentials of users registered in commercial grids and support seamless user entry into those grids. 
• The effect is that the user can login once to MHB and then teieport to any cooperating grid.
• The user may be able to teleport directly to another cooperating grid.
• If not, the user can get to another cooperating grid by returning to MHB, then going to the other grid.

Other services: users can:

• add any other MHB user to their contact list.
• send text messages to any MHB user.
• upload and store assets (such as objects) in their MHB inventory.
• carry their assets* to any MHB grid they are registered in.
• send assets* to any MHB user.
• *Limited to exportable assets, generally those made or imported by the user.
• have text or voice conversations with any MHB user online.
• use external systems such as Discord or Skype from MHB grids.

MHB would handle most start-up and login tasks

• Some grids require the user to download and install a viewer.
• MHB could do almost all of that except for approvals needed for security.
• MHB could provide the login credentials for any cooperating grid.
• Thus the user would only login to MHB to be able to get to any cooperating grid.

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Easy access meetings in the metaverse

• 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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2022 Event: Concerts In the metaverse? Get together with your friends. Always safe. Opportunities for performers and support staff?

Concerts In the metaverse?  

Get together with your friends. 

Always safe.  

Opportunities for performers and support staff? 

Concerts in the metaverse offer a safe and worldwide venue for performers who draw masses.

• Watch on YouTube
• A new method for tipping
• Concerts In The Metaverse Are Making Artists Millions | Forbes
• I Am Furious About How Much I Enjoyed Justin Bieber’s Metaverse Concert
• Jobs created by concerts (Google search)
• Music in the metaverse (Google search)
• Still can't believe that i've been DJing in the metaverse with my 9 year old

2022 VW: Metaverse music. Video accompaniment! Teflon Sega - Paralyzed. Opportunity for independent music.

Metaverse music. 

Video accompaniment!   

Teflon Sega - Paralyzed

Opportunity for independent music.  

Play your music from home in the metaverse.  In a virtual nightclub or any other scene you want. Your friends can come from wherever they are.

• Watch on YouTube
• Teflon Sega - Paralyzed (Metaverse Music Video)
  
• Teflon Sega (YouTube search)
• Stream: https://music.empi.re/paralyzed 

• Film scoring by JordanXL 
• Music Produced by JordanXL 
• Video Directed by Teflon and Rami Afuni Assistant on set ANDGAMES 
• Ballet choreography by Shira Shvadron 

Paralyzed lyrics 

• I see shapes 
• Moving with the shadows on the wall 
• In places only creatures like to crawl 
• I lay awake I’m sleepless 
• And they say my name 
• They’re playing games

• Other music in the metaverse after the break.

2022 MVSE: Metaverse: How to build your own place that runs in a browser. And runs on almost any device that has a browser. And you own it because you made it.

Metaverse:  How to build your own place that runs in a browser. 

And runs on almost any device that has a browser. 

And you own it because you made it. 

This video walks through the process of setting up a virtual space in Mozilla Hubs that students can access across devices and without a high end VR headset.

• Watch on YouTube
• Virtual environments have a lot of potential for remote learning. 
• Mozilla Hubs for Virtual Remote Learning
• WebXR Device API & 
• Three.js 
• A simple introduction
• Simple introduction to WebXR Device API & Three.js plus sample works. 
• This video was created as a project for BYU's IS 542 (Web Development) Class. 
• You would probably lease a server to run it.

Related Links:

• https://immersiveweb.dev/
• https://immersive-web.github.io/
• https://github.com/immersive-web/webx... 
• https://threejs.org/ https://mixedreality.mozilla.org/
• hell... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de... 
• https://threejsfundamentals.org/three...

Easy access meetings in the metaverse

• 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

2022 WW To have a connected metaverse, we need to plan on connections. Web-worlds are a connection candidate. A goal for connecting web-worlds

To have a connected metaverse, we need to plan on connections.  

Web-worlds are a connection candidate.   

A goal for connecting web-worlds

Some people think the metaverse will consist of interconnected virtual worlds.  Here we start to think about how to get there.

• Watch on YouYube
• Hypergrid already provides a working plan for connecting Open Simulator grids. 
• http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Hypergrid
• Web-worlds run in a browser using webGL and Javascript.
• Since they are running similar code, they might connect more easily than the installed worlds.
• And they might see the connection as possibly getting them more traffic.
• Some allow guest entry and thus can handle unregistered users.

2022 #VWEDU: What can the metaverse add to online learning? Education in the metaverse The programmed environment.

What can the metaverse add to online learning. 

Education in the metaverse.

The programmed environment.

The AI is coming

Discussion at developers meeting in the web show, Metaverse Software

• Watch on YouTube

Key points

• The programmed environment.
• Interactive environment
• Learning in a simulation.
• Teacher can handle much larger number of students.
• Most of the instruction can be designed and developed by an instructional designer.
• Like textbooks, computer-based instruction can serve large numbers of students.
• The AI is coming; it can handle simple instruction.
• AI can let students learn their own rate.
• The teacher then has time to handle the unexpected problems.
• Location:
• https://nonprofitvirtualworld.org/location.html?locationid=800000005&dl=true

2021 EV How to find events in the metaverse. Twitter may do as the universal contact. Communities are the key.

How to find events in the metaverse.  

Twitter may do as the universal contact.  

Communities are the key.

The metaverse is made of communities.  The tech is just a tool for brining people together.

• Watch on YouTube
• Connecting Up: Communities in the Future - Virtual Worlds
• After the break:
• Twitter links to selected metaverse organizations
• Communities
• Specific organizations
• Broad metaverse/virtual worlds

202`AET: Gallery in the metaverse. Where artists can display and sell their work. In the metaverse, the world can see your work.

Gallery in the metaverse.  

Where artists can display and sell their work.  

In the metaverse, the world can see your work.

The metaverse can become a new outlet for the work of artists.  Galleries in a laptop.  Open 24/7.  Meet your friends or fans there any time. 

• Watch on YouTube

Selling art in the metaverse

• NFT
• The non-fungible token (NFT) is the basis for selling digital are online.
• Physical art objects can also be sold online for delivery by carriers such as UPS.
• Digital sculptures can be printed in 3D and cast in bronze:
• Shattered, virtual sculpture in real bronze: The art of Toysoldier Thor
• After the break: related articles.

2021 VW: Metaverse hubs to connect the metaverse. The focus is on shared interests, not tech. Because the metaverse is made of people.

Metaverse hubs to connect the metaverse.  

The focus is on shared interests, not tech.

Because the metaverse is made of people.

The metaverse needs hubs.  They would be the first step towards interconnection.  

• The First Metaverse will be a Central Social Hub
• Watch on YouTube

What is a metaverse hub?

"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.
• OpenSimulator and the hypergrid are an example of the developing metaverse.
• Hypergrid hub. (Spreadsheet--the flat web) Links to known grids.
• Grid is a common metaverse term for virtual worlds under one management.
• So hypergrid hub is a web page that connects OpenSimulator grids
• Community Virtual Library: Explore-SL Spreadsheet 
• This is a community hub with links to SL libraries, museums, exhibitions, tutorials, galleries, and more...
• Metaverse & NFT News & Media Network (LnkedIn)
  
• But why not a hub in the metaverse?  That's being set up in 3DWebWorldz.

2021 BIZ: Fashion, marketing, and web-worlds. The Metaverse may be a fashion goldmine. Any entrepreneurs around?

Fashion, marketing, and web-worlds.  

The Metaverse may be a fashion goldmine.  

Any entrepreneurs around? 

Appearances are the main task of metaverse tech.  Fashion is made of appearances.  The two were made for each other.

• Watch on YouTube
• Why the Metaverse Is Fashion's Next Goldmine | The Business of Fashion Show
• Visit https://www.businessoffashion.com for fashion news

How would a person use it? 

• You can have an avatar that looks like you.
• You can dress it as you please (from home).
• You can put it in a replica of your living room.
• Or of any place you choose.
• You can invite friends and family to see it.
• They can talk with you about it: Approve or suggest changes
• If you like the result, you can order the outfit from an online retailer.

2021 BIZ: VW: Ownership in the metaverse: your inventory. Where you keep what you own. Rezzing and editing your objects.

Ownership in the metaverse: your inventory.  

Where you keep what you own. 

Rezzing and editing your objects. 

The metaverse gets more like you place when you have your things there.  

• Watch on YouTub

• Ownership in the metaverse: your inventory.  
• Where you keep what you own. 
• Rezzing and editing your objects. 
• How this works without NFTs.
• Second Life   https://secondlife.com/
• Go there (in Second Life)
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/141/209/21
• Second Life Marketplace

2021 WW: Get your home in the metaverse. Don't just go there, build there. Get free (sometimes) land where you can build what you want.

Get your place in the metaverse.  

Don't just go there, build there.  

Get free (sometimes) land 

where you can build what you want.  

Make the metaverse home by getting your own place there.

• Watch on YouTube:  Creative Spirit Bringing Metaphor to Life

• In the metaverse, some virtual worlds let educators build scenes that teach the content: User-built made easy.
• Beginner's building in OpenSim: Chimp Versus Chair, Prim Sculptor

• School & College listings, Builders Brewery
• Builders Brewery class schedule
• If the province allows building, it will probably have sandboxes where you can practice building.
• Web-worlds may lend you free land if you have a promising building plan.