Monthly Archives: October 2016

360° Snapshots in Second Life

Posted on October 26, 2016 by bat

A new Second Life “Project Viewer” has been released by Linden Lab that allows for the creation of 360° snapshots in Second Life virtual world scenes. There is also a package of HTML and JavaScript that can be installed on … Continue reading →

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IPAB Web Site

Posted on October 14, 2016 by bat

The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics Institute for Perception Action and Behaviour (IPAB), which is Edinburgh’s Robotics Institute and part of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics (jointly with Heriot-Watt University) has a new web site… http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ipab

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Asgardia – The Space Nation

Posted on October 12, 2016 by bat

Asgardia (http://asgardia.space/) is a project to explore a space-based community by creating an “Asgardia Citzenship” of those interested. It will start with privately financed spacecraft and go on from there.

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DreamWorld – Outworldz OpenSim Installer

Posted on October 10, 2016 by bat

DreamWorld is an OpenSimulator world to demonstrate an easy to use OpenSim setup program called the “Outworldz Installer” created by Fred Beckhusen, aka Ferd Frederix. It includes MySQL, the Diva Distribution (“D2”) of OpenSim 0.8.2.1, Diva’s WiFi admin interface and … Continue reading →

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360 Degree Snapshots in Second Life and OpenSim

Posted on October 9, 2016 by bat

This is a resource area for experimentation with the production and publishing of 360° snapshots in virtual worlds such as Second Life and OpenSim. Blog Posts Panoramic 360 Degree Image Capture Coming to Second Life Viewer – Blog Post 2016-10-08 … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh MOOCs

Posted on October 3, 2016 by bat

On 3rd October 2016 a celebration of the first 5 years of University of Edinburgh Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) took place in the Playfair Library in the University’s Old College. 35 MOOCs on three MOOC platforms (Coursera, EdX and … Continue reading →

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