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Monthly Archives: March 2023
ChatGPT and DALL·E
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
For the Love of Fashion
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
Metaverse Fashion Week 2023
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
Posted in Virtual World
Tagged Fashion, Ready Player Me, Spatial, Virtual World
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Ruth2 v4 Rigging
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
Posted in OpenSim, Second Life
Tagged Blender, Onigiri, OpenSim, Ruth, Second Life
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Virtual World Best Practice in Education 2023
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
Posted in Distance Education, Virtual World
Tagged VWBPE
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Ready Player Me Avatars in Second Life and OpenSim (Onigiri)
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
Blender Nodes – Resources
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
Cuteulula Artis Roller Coasters
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
Godot Engine – Resources
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
CuteCircuit – Digital Fashion by Francesca Rosella
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
Posted in Media, Virtual World
Tagged Fashion
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AI@Edinburgh Achievements and History
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
Tagged AI, AI Planning, Edinburgh
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Second Life PBR Materials Tests
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