Monthly Archives: December 2021

China Metaverse Activity – Resources

Posted on December 31, 2021 by bat

This blog post is to provide resources and access links for activities in China related to Metaverse platforms. Baidu is developing Xi Rang, an app for virtual meetings that will be in use from early 2022 for its own developer … Continue reading →

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Second Life – North Pole

Posted on December 26, 2021 by bat

I was pointed yet again by a blog post from Inara Pey to the wonderful detailed North Pole region in Second Life. The region is modelled and made available by Stormie Frua. If people use high/ultra graphics settings and the … Continue reading →

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Second Life 360° Snapshots in WordPress

Posted on December 19, 2021 by bat

The Second Life viewer from version 6.5.1.566335 (15-Dec-221) now includes by default a facility to create 360° Snapshots. I have usually uploaded the resulting 360 panorama (equirectangular) to Flicker where they can be directly viewed and panned round, and just … Continue reading →

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Hypergrid Safari

Posted on December 13, 2021 by bat

Hypergrid Safari (HG Safari) is a group formed in 2014 as a successor the original Hypergrid Adventurers Club formed in 2010. Members gather at a jump off location on OpenSim grids and visit a couple of grid or sites at … Continue reading →

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Open Metaverse Interoperability (OMI)

Posted on December 12, 2021 by bat

This blog post is to provide resources and access links for initiatives related to virtual worlds and metaverse interoperability including avatar appearance and world content. https://omigroup.org – Bridging virtual worlds by designing and promoting shared protocols. I have previously blogged … Continue reading →

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Advanced Autonomy through Human-AI Collaboration

Posted on December 10, 2021 by bat

This blog post is to provide resources and access links for the UK programme on “Enabling Advanced Autonomy through Human-AI Collaboration”. https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/advanced-autonomy/

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OpenSimulator Community Conference 2021 – OSCC21

Posted on December 10, 2021 by bat

https://conference.opensimulator.org/ The OpenSimulator Community Conference is one of the longest running virtual conference series, having started in 2013 and run annually since. The OpenSimulator community and Avacon Inc. come together to run the event on the OpenSimulator Community Conference (OpenSimCC … Continue reading →

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