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Monthly Archives: April 2020
Vive Sync – VR Meeting Spaces
Launched today (30-Apr-2020) is HTC Vive Sync (https://sync.vive.com/) – which the web site states is an “all-in-one meeting and collaboration solution for VR. With VIVE Sync, it’s easy to customize your avatar, create a private meeting room, and begin working … Continue reading
EdMOLT – Week One – 1.8 Onwards
1.8: I am an enthusiastic supporter of avatar-based virtual worlds (such as Second Life and the open-source OpenSim platforms) as shared collaborative spaces and they work well in a lot of educational contexts… and have used them for class meeting … Continue reading
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EdMOLT – Week One – 1.1 to 1.7
Started the course on Edinburgh Model for Online Teaching – henceforth shortened to EdMOLT. WordPress blog for course observations established at https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/bat_an-edinburgh-model-for-online-teaching/, though my main blog is usually at https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/ I added a couple of entries onto the “Padlet” of … Continue reading
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Edinburgh Model for Online Teaching Course (EdMOLT)
Welcome to my blog for the Edinburgh Model for Online Teaching Course – which I will abbreviate to EdMOLT). I am a Professor in the School of Informatics and have an interest in teamwork and remote collaboration. I have been … Continue reading
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Outworldz – DreamGrid – Hobbiton
Fred Beckhusen of Outworldz (avatar: Ferd Frederix), David Denny (avatar: Darkness Papp).and his team have done wonders again with another fine OpenSimulator-based region, released as an OpenSim Archive (OAR) licensed only for use on the DreamGrid distribution. Fred’s post on … Continue reading
NoLimits2 – Space Mountain Paris
Space Mountain – De la Terre à la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1269373814 A wonderful NoLimits2/Steam Workshop build by Giftaddict (overall) and HelloHurricane/Pieter Hutapea (scripting). “Space Mountain, inaugurated at Disneyland Paris on June 1, 1995, is a … Continue reading
Outworldz – Alexandria 30BC
Another fine virtual world build from Fred Beckhusen/Ferd Frederix and his team (Debbie Edwards aka Nyira Machabelli, Joe Builder and Avia Bonne) to recreate Ancient Egypt, specifically Alexandria in 30BC. It is located on the OpenSimulator-based Outworldz grid’s Alexandria region … Continue reading
Second Life – Voice Echo Canyon
A common issue in teleconferencing is testing your headset and microphone to make sure its working, and not giving feedback to others (something often only YOU cannot hear). As more people engage in teleconferencing and virtual world systems voice testing … Continue reading
Supercar in Second Life – Anaglyph 3D
Kirstens Viewer for Second Life can render the view in Anaglyph 3D for Red/Cyan 3D Glasses… for more details and download links see this blog post. So its a good excuse to take the 3D model of Supercar for another … Continue reading
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Virtual Conferences – A Guide to Best Practices
https://www.acm.org/virtual-conferences A community resource from the ACM Presidential Task Force on What Conferences Can Do to Replace Face-to-Face Meetings – Version 1.1(rc) of April 11, 2020 [Current version] [Local Copy] Discussion Forum (free account registration required): https://virtualconf.acm.org/
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Kirstens Viewer Update with Anaglyph 3D
Back in 2011, Kirstens Viewer for Second Life added an Anaglyph 3D view capability which could be seen with red/cyan 3D glasses. See this blog post. It was updated to the latest Second Life features in 2017. See this further … Continue reading
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Kitely Organizations
Kitely Organizations are a way to create a virtual grid inside the OpenSimulator-based Kitely grid. It allows groups to create and manage their own users, with control over which regions they can visit and what they can do in-world. A … Continue reading
AIAI Virtual World Social Space
This blog post is to provide details of of the virtual world and metaverse platform meeting spaces for AIAI in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Quickstart: Get an OpenSim avatar at http://osgrid.org if you don’t already … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, AIAI, OpenSim, Social, Virtual World
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