Monthly Archives: March 2023

ChatGPT and DALL·E

Posted on March 29, 2023 by bat

I decided that the tide cannot be held back and I better get an OpenAI AppID to test out some features of ChatGPT (a.k.a. “Chat”), DALL·E and an image manipulation Blender addon such as BlenderGPT. Here is a conversation with … Continue reading →

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For the Love of Fashion

Posted on March 29, 2023 by bat

This event is part of a year-long celebration marking sixty years of research into computer science and AI at the University of Edinburgh. Starting in 1963 with a small group of machine intelligence pioneers, and computer science innovators, the University … Continue reading →

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Metaverse Fashion Week 2023

Posted on March 28, 2023 by bat

Metaverse Fashion Week 2023 (#MVFW23) took place in a variety of virtual worlds and platforms including Spatial (https://spatial.io) in a space ghosted by Luis Fern and Metamundo which can be visited with Ready Player Me (https://readyplayer.me) avatars. This follows the … Continue reading →

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Ruth2 v4 Rigging

Posted on March 25, 2023 by bat

Sean Heavy has documented a process to add an armature/rig to the Ruth2v4 open source mesh avatar and to export components of the avatar for Second Life and OpenSim using the Onigiri Blender add-on. These notes are to provide some … Continue reading →

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Virtual World Best Practice in Education 2023

Posted on March 23, 2023 by bat

The 16th Virtual World Best Practice in Education 2023 online conference titled “Uncommon Realities” took place in Second Life on 23rd March to 25th March 2023. The event organised by https://www.vwbpe.org/ focuses on the use of immersive virtual environments for … Continue reading →

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Ready Player Me Avatars in Second Life and OpenSim (Onigiri)

Posted on March 21, 2023 by bat

Update: December 2023: Onigiri using this conversion process works with Bender versions up to 3.6.5, but does not work with Blender version 4.0.* at present. Update August 2023: A big advantage of new PBR Viewers is that the Ready Player … Continue reading →

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Blender Nodes – Resources

Posted on March 18, 2023 by bat

This blog post provides links and resources related to the use of “Nodes” and their “Noodle” links to create workflows in Blender, especially for creating PBR Materials with Albedo images, Metallic, Roughness and Height Maps/Normals. Learn the BASICS of Material … Continue reading →

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Cuteulula Artis Roller Coasters

Posted on March 13, 2023 by bat

I have posted before about Cuteulala Artis’s roller coaster builds in OpenSim, her free to use (in OpenSim only) Optera coaster, and her CuteulalaPark region on OSGrid. hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/CuteulalaPark/304/475/22 Via her MeWe posts, Cuteulala recently made available on OAR similar to … Continue reading →

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Godot Engine – Resources

Posted on March 8, 2023 by bat

This blog post is to provide resources and links related to the MIT Licenced open source Godot Game Engine. https://godotengine.org/ https://docs.godotengine.org/ As an initial test I imported a glTF 2.0 mesh file created from my Blender version of Supercar 2023. … Continue reading →

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CuteCircuit – Digital Fashion by Francesca Rosella

Posted on March 6, 2023 by bat

Francesca Rosella co-founded CuteCircuit with Ryan Genz in 2004. It is the world’s first wearable technology fashion brand. Francesca has been active in this space since 2001 and works in a mix of virtual, digital and physical fashion. This blog … Continue reading →

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AI@Edinburgh Achievements and History

Posted on March 5, 2023 by bat

In response to a colleague’s request for pointers to early AI achievements in Edinburgh I provided a few links and resources that may be useful. This blog posts lists some of them… We carefully preserved an archive of project materials … Continue reading →

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Second Life PBR Materials Tests

Posted on March 3, 2023 by bat

A development of Second Life is introducing Physical Based Rendering (PBR) materials based on the glTF specification. Some links and resources are in my earlier blog post. Test Materials with Metallics, Lights and Emission Ready Player Me Avatar with All … Continue reading →

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