Tag Archives: Virtual World

inZOI – Resources

Posted on August 22, 2024 by bat

inZOI is a life simulation game created by Korean developer KRAFTON where you can visualize stories of life with immersive, realistic graphics and deep, detailed simulation that creates unexpected occurrences. inZOI Web – https://playinzoi.com/en Twitter: Twitter/X – @PlayinZOI Discord Invite: … Continue reading →

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HG Safari Blog – Ai Austin Interview

Posted on August 21, 2024 by bat

This blog post gives the information provided as a basis for a blog post by Thirza Ember on the HG Safari Blog. An interview on the OSGrid regions of RuthAndRoth, Black Rock and Space City was held on 21-Aug-2024 to … Continue reading →

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Roblox – Six Flags

Posted on July 2, 2024 by bat

Six Flags have joined with DigitalTwin/Coastercoin to create a theme park experience for Roblox. Six Flags Launches Groundbreaking Metaverse Experience on Roblox, Bridging Physical and Digital Worlds: A First in the Theme Park Industry – Businesswire Blog Post June 28, … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 7.1.9

Posted on June 24, 2024 by bat

Firestorm VR Mod 7.1.9.74745 is the first PBR (Physically Based Rendering) VR Mod viewer release. Firestorm VR Mod is a version of the popular Firestorm Viewer for Second Life and OpenSimulator with modifications to provide VR capabilities for VR Head … Continue reading →

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Metaverse Crossroads

Posted on May 5, 2024 by bat

Metaverse Crossroads is a GitHub Organization to collect together a range of resources to help promote Metaverse and linked virtual world activities and experiences. It was created by @Humbletim. https://github.com/metaverse-crossroads Early work includes a fix (Github link) to improve the … Continue reading →

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Thunnus Bay in Second Life

Posted on April 19, 2024 by bat

Thunnus bay is a Fantasy Fair 2024 (Relay for Life) region in Second Life. It uses atmospheric visuals and environment, a superb soundscape and a range of charity shopping experiences. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Thunnus%20Bay/99/156/63

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Convai Characters for Virtual Worlds

Posted on March 27, 2024 by bat

Convai (pronounced “convey”) enables virtual world and game characters with human-like conversation capabilities. They can be integrated into various platforms including Unity, Roblox and Second Life. On some platforms Ready Player Me avatars can be used. https://www.convai.com/ Discord Support Channel … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.17

Posted on March 17, 2024 by bat

R E P L A C E D     B Y     P B R     V E R S I O N     7.1.9 https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/firestorm-vr-mod-7.1.9/ Download link: https://github.com/humbletim/firestorm-gha/releases/ Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.17.70368 is the final Pre-PBR (Pre Physically Based … Continue reading →

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Hiberworld – Resources

Posted on December 13, 2023 by bat

Hiberworld (https://hiberworld.com) is a virtual world in which users can link Ready Player Me (https://readyplayer.me) avatars and create experiences. Hiberworld can share equipment and clothing items across multiple virtual worlds through the Ready Player me platform.

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Viverse – Resources

Posted on June 6, 2023 by bat

https://world.viverse.com/ Items can be placed in world scenes using upload of, for example, .glb models, or a selection of 3D models from Sketchfab. Avatars can be imported to Viverse in “VRM” format. Viverse Realistic Avatars A newer Avatar Creator is … 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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Inworld Review with Ai Austin and Humbletim

Posted on February 26, 2023 by bat

Talk from and about virtual worlds & immersive spaces. With Mal Burns, Thirza Ember & James Atlloud. Produced by Metaworld Broadcasting. The 26th February 2023 edition had guests Ai Austin and Humbletim. The intended discussion topic was Virtual World Viewers, … Continue reading →

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Supercar in Spatial

Posted on February 14, 2023 by bat

Visit Supercar in Spatial Here Using the Spatial Creator Toolkit for Unity (see this blog post for resources) I have imported the Blender/FBX version of our Gerry Anderson’s Supercar model into a scene which can be visited by multiple simultaneous … Continue reading →

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Roblox – 2023 NFL Concert

Posted on February 8, 2023 by bat

After checking out Roblox in July 2022, I returned to look at the “Rhythm City” experience created by Warner Music to accompany the 2023 NFL incorporating a motion captured virtual concert by Saweetie. More details here. Oh Dear! – Aspirational … Continue reading →

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Beorn’s House on OpenSim

Posted on September 23, 2022 by bat

Beorn’s House is a 256mx256m region for DreamGrid (OpenSim) with surrounding mountainous landscape and is part of the “Hobbiton Collection“/Shirelands of Hobbit/Lord of the Rings themed regions built by David Denny (avatar: Darkness Papp), licenced for exclusive use on the … Continue reading →

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Crystal Frost – Unity Viewer for Second Life and OpenSim

Posted on September 21, 2022 by bat

GitHub JennaScvl (Berry Bunny in Second Life, Kallisti#2038 on Discord) recently announced work on a Unity-based viewer for Second Life and OpenSim using LibreMetaverse. This blog post provides resources related to the development of Crystal Frost which is still at … Continue reading →

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WWF – saveyour.world

Posted on September 20, 2022 by bat

saveyour.world is a virtual world created for the World Wildlife Fund Deutschland and accessible using a Ready Player Me avatar.

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aiaustin.readyplayer.me

Posted on September 8, 2022 by bat

This blog post describes experiments with embedding the Ready Player Me Avatar Creator into an application. Initially I wanted to create a reliable and repeatable workflow to take Ready Player Me avatars into Second Life or OpenSim. This process used … Continue reading →

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Using Ready Player Me Avatars in Second Life and OpenSim (Bento Buddy)

Posted on September 8, 2022 by bat

This blog post is replaced by a later one here since developments have taken place in Ready Player Me and the Bento Buddy plugin for Blender. This blog post provides resources and information for a route to take Ready Player … Continue reading →

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Vogue Singapore – Virtual World Fashion in Spatial.io

Posted on September 5, 2022 by bat

The September 2022 and October 2022 issue of Vogue Singapore (https:/vogue.sg) linked the virtual world fashion of fashion designer Yimeng Yu (https://vogue.sg/fashion-designer-yimeng-yu/) with Ready Player Me avatars. https://spatial.io/s/Vogues-New-World-62fabe0cabce1e00010f6f9a?share=2054290015843864647 https://vogue.sg/lina-zhang-september-issue-2022/ https://vogue.sg/fashionsnewworld https://vogue.sg/fashion-designer-yimeng-yu/ https://vogue.sg/every-body-nft-vogue-singapore-metaartclub/ Ready Player Me Avatar Creator – Vogue Direct … Continue reading →

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Monaverse

Posted on August 23, 2022 by bat

Mona or Monaverse is a browser based virtual world platform that provides a number of separate experiences connected via portals – https://monaverse.com/ Mona accepts registration and logins by connecting a cryptocurrency wallet such as Metamask and WalletConnect. Or you can … Continue reading →

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Parallel by Tommy Hilfiger

Posted on August 21, 2022 by bat

Matching Virtual and In Real Life Outfits by Tommy Hilfiger – https://www.paralleltommyhilfiger.com/ Outfits Redeemed in Wardrobe

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Second Life – Resources

Posted on June 17, 2022 by bat

Web page: https://secondlife.com Downloads: https://secondlife.com/support/downloads/ Second Life Community Resources: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Community_Resources_Portal Second Life Discord Channel: please note that this is not intended as a general user/residents forum, it is for special developments and active projects group participants – Invite Link, Request … Continue reading →

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Spatial.io – Resources

Posted on June 10, 2022 by bat

Spatial (https://spatial.io) is a multi-platform virtual space for art exhibitions, events, virtual offices, etc. This blog post provides resources related to Spatial. https://spatial.io Getting Started Guide Documentation Twitter: @spatialxr Discord Invite Link: https://discord.com/invite/spatial Ready Player Me Avatar Integration Ai Austin’s … Continue reading →

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Frame – Resources

Posted on March 16, 2022 by bat

Frame (https://framevr.io) is a browser-based platform for immersive team collaboration, events, education, virtual offices, digital twins, etc. It can be embedded as a virtual space within Microsoft’s Teams. This blog post provides resources related to Frame. https://learn.framevr.io/resources – for FAQ, … Continue reading →

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Active Worlds

Posted on February 24, 2022 by bat

This blog post is to provide resources and access links for Active Worlds – https://www.activeworlds.com/, an online virtual world launched in 1995 and predating Second Life which launched in 2003 [Wikpedia]. Video by Straszfilms “Active Worlds: The 27-Year-Old Virtual World … Continue reading →

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OMI Group Space on OpenSim

Posted on February 17, 2022 by bat

https://omigroup.org – Bridging virtual worlds by designing and promoting shared protocols. This blog post is to provide details of one of several virtual world and metaverse platform meeting spaces for the OMI Group. This one is the “OMI” region on … Continue reading →

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Make Avatar – Resources

Posted on January 22, 2022 by bat

This blog post is to provide resources and access links for Make Avatar (MakeAvatar™) by Haptic Monkey – a tool to create an avatar and its clothing which can be exported as a JSON (.json) file or to .glb (binary … Continue reading →

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Vircadia – Resources

Posted on January 20, 2022 by bat

Vircadia is the continuation of the previous work by High Fidelity (see my earlier blog posts). This blog post is to provide resources and access links for Vircadia – https://vircadia.com Download: https://vircadia.com/download-vircadia/ User Dashboard: https://dashboard.vircadia.com/ Documents: https://docs.vircadia.com/ Vircadia Interface Vircadia … Continue reading →

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