Wednesday, December 9, 2015

2015 P2P: My adventures in virtual worlds. Selby Evans at the Street Wear Live show

My adventures in virtual worlds. 
Selby Evans at the Street Wear Live show
Education, video production, octogenarians, theater,  Avatar Repertory Theater, Lauren's place, Jwheels, Music, the longest comedy performance in Second Life, dance, videos on YouTube, Midsummer Night's Dream, entry into virtual worlds--these are some of the things we discuss as I talk about my ten years in virtual worlds.


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Metaverse events, current and upcoming

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

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        Tuesday, December 8, 2015

        2015 BIZ: HLP: HG: Kitely adds features to help you improve the performance of your virtual world

        Kitely adds features to help you improve the performance of your virtual world
        A guide for optimizing system performance in virtual worlds .  Tools for monitoring world performance.
         Kitely world performance panel
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        For everyone

        Only useful in Kitely for now

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        Kyrielle Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 12/8, 7pm SLT

        This week the Short Poetry Workshop presents an ancient French form called Kyrielle, which is a rhyming poem written in quatrains (4 line stanzas), with each quatrain containing a repeating line or phrase as a refrain. Each line is 8 syllables.

        Metaverse events, current and upcoming

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

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              Monday, December 7, 2015

              2015 NEW: HG: HG Welcome Center. HGProjects. Possible content and presentation

              HG Welcome Center HGProjects.  
              Possible content and presentation
              A presentation at Expo 2 of OSCC15 by Thirza Ember provides content that should be considered for inclusion in the HG welcome center.  Here, examples of the content and means of presentation are shown in pictures.  The complete content can probably be obtained from Thirza.
              Web linked displays leading 
              to important web resources

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              Sunbeam Magic recommended this Expo: 

              I think we should take our cue from the OSCC HG Expo 2 that is all about HG :) I like the look and feel of this Expo and think it would do well as a Welcome center for newbies and us veterans :) 
              As part of the HG Welcome Center project, I am collecting and posting examples of possible content and of possible presentation methods.   I will not take a position about anything other than that the items I am presenting are worth considering.  As I routinely told my brainstorming groups, The way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas to choose 
              from. 

              As a mental model, I think we may come up with three products: 

              • A single, localized sim in some HG location.
              • A model HGWC with readily available, free-to-copy, units for a DIY HGWC
              • A web-based HGWC that people can read before they come into HG 
              • Keep in mind that what we are really producing is experiences. 
              • Don't think of our products as digital things.  We are producing:
              • Experiences that develop specified skills in our learners.  
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              Metaverse events, current and upcoming

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

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                    Sunday, December 6, 2015

                    2015 HG: ODE: New UbODE in OpenSim may have solved lots of physics problems. I will be following the tests.

                    New UbODE may have solved some problems with physics in OpenSimulator. 
                    Open Simulator has had a continuing problem with physics.   New UbODE from avination seems to have solved some of these problem.  It is said to work with unmodified SL scripts (copy/paste).  UbODE should be generally available in OpenSimulator 0.9.0.   Here are a couple of demo videos by Joe Builder. 

                    • Watch on YouTube
                    • "Thats a straight copy/paste of a full perm sl script"
                    • Joe.Builder @lostworld-os.com:8002
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                          Saturday, December 5, 2015

                          2015 NEW: BIZ: HG: The Hypergrid Welcome Center. An element of the HGProjects.

                          The Hypergrid Welcome Center.  
                          An element of the HGProjects
                          Updated 12/7/2015
                          Tom Frost proposed development of a Hypergrid welcome center and it has stirred much interest in the HG community.  This is an element that I think is much needed to support the promotion and growth of the Hypergrid.  Here I present Tom's proposal and offer some preliminary considerations.    

                          Proposal by Tom Frost

                          When I arrived on the hypergrid about a year ago, fresh from Second Life, I was confused. Disoriented. Things didn't work as I expected, and it took quite some perseverance before I 'got it'. 
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                          Now, I'm a delighted resident of the hyperverse. Back then, the idea was planted: there should be a welcome area for people new to the hypergrid. A place where they can get help, learn the tricks I now take for granted and a guiding hand to navigate that initial confusion. 
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                          Now that I have 'arrived', so to speak, I think it is time to give body to that idea. 
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                          Please help me build a grid-agnostic welcome center, together with a web presence, to ease the transition from closed grids to the hypergrid. Let's make the hypergrid a more welcoming place!  Tom Frost
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                                  Friday, December 4, 2015

                                  2015 STAGE: P2P: Avatar Repertory Theater comes to OSCC 2015

                                  Avatar Repertory Theater comes to OSCC 2015
                                  Avatar Repertory Theater goes to the 2015 Open Sim Community Conference! Saturday, December 5, 2015, at 3:30 --3:50 pm. Pacific time
                                  • Avatar Repertory Theater goes to the 2015 Open Sim Community Conference! 
                                  • Saturday, December 5, 2015, at 3:30 --3:50 pm. Pacific time.
                                  • Register early for the conference at http://oscc.avacon.org/2015/, 
                                  • then hypergrid to cc.opensimulator.org:8002/ 
                                  • and teleport to the keynote regions. 
                                  Ada Radius will present the brief keynote speech, then some of the talented A.R.T. troupe will perform scenes from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where the Rude Mechanicals, poor working people of Athens, rehearse and perform a play for the Duke's wedding feast. Em Jannings, MadameThespian Underhill, Ada Radius (Judith Adele), Sodovan Torok (Iain McCracken) and JadaBright Pond.
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                                        Wednesday, December 2, 2015

                                        2015 STAGE: Ballet Pixelle presents "The Nut": dance in the virtual world.

                                        Ballet Pixelle: dance in the virtual world.
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                                        • Ballet Pixelle® will present its its version of the Nutcracker 
                                        • ("The Nut") for the eighth year this holiday season.
                                        • Starting on Wednesday, December 2, 2015. 
                                        • Performances are Wednesdays and Sundays at 5:00 pm SLT 
                                        • through December and to January 6 in the Ballet Pixelle Theatre
                                        • (except Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve)
                                        • SLurl: click to go or drag to viewer screen 
                                        • http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/38/24/107

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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!!) 

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                                              Tuesday, December 1, 2015

                                              2015 HG. HELP: Grid welcome centers on the Hypergrid, examples and summary. For the HGProject

                                              Grid welcome centers on the Hypergrid, 
                                              examples and summary.  For the HGProject
                                              2/8/2016
                                              A collection of articles about grid welcome centers (entry points) on the Hypergrid, with a summary of items that grids, hypergrid projects, and communities may want to consider in designing or redesigning their own welcome centers.
                                              Overview of the 3rd rock welcome area

                                              Grids and communities on the Hypergrid:

                                              The first place your visitors see when they visit your grid or community is your welcome center or entry point.  Remember hearing about the importance of first impressions?   Does your entry point make the kind of first impression you want it to make?   
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                                              Genre-SL Ekphrastic Short Poetry Workshop-Tue 12/1, 7pm SLT


                                              This week at the Short Poetry Workshop Arabella Nemeth is guest host as she presents the Genre-Second Life Ekphrastic. An Ekphrastic poem is a graphical description of visual art using literary means such as poetry. This workshop will use our own Second Life photos that we may have taken over the years. So bring some photos and join us at the Short Poetry Library.

                                              Metaverse events, current and upcoming

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


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                                                    Monday, November 30, 2015

                                                    2016 EDU: A school for self-study in virtual worlds. We call that a library

                                                    A school for self-study in virtual worlds.  
                                                    We call that a library
                                                    Updated 11/28/2016
                                                    Virtual worlds offer instructional designers the opportunity to design experiences to fit their instructional objectives.  With control of the environment, the designer may be able to create an environment which meets the instructional objectives without relying on the presence of an instructor for most or all of the time.  This instruction seems well suited to meeting the needs for adult instruction.

                                                    Sunday, November 29, 2015

                                                    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!!) 

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