Monthly Archives: April 2015

High Fidelity – At the Cafe

hifi://cafe is a place where High Fidelity users are gathering to discuss developments and socialize. Avatar Marketplace The avatar can now be selected via the Interface -> Preferences and using the Marketplace… Avatar Animation Avatar animator can be added to … Continue reading

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The Illusionist

A reminder about the lovely hand drawn animated film “The Illusionist” following a down-at-heels French performer with Scotland and Edinburgh scenes. It was produced in 2010 and directed by Sylvain Chomet. More details on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illusionist_(2010_film). A trailer is at http://www.theillusionistmovie.com

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AltspaceVR – Meet in Virtual Space

AltspaceVR (http://altvr.com) is developing a virtual world in which people can meet, chat, share media and have fun. Interested users could register for the beta-testing events and they were invited into a beta-test weekend on 25th and 26th April 2015. … Continue reading

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Second Life – Skye Forest Cabin

I was pointed by one of Inara Pey’s blog posts to a good example of a forest cabin and furniture that are available in Second Life. This build, created by Alex Bader of Studio Skye, uses mesh and recent advanced … Continue reading

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OpenVCE Presentation Systems

There are two presentations systems we have used in the Open Virtual Collaboration Environment (OpenVCE) in Second Life (and ported to OpenSim). Clever Zebra In-world Texture Presenter A means to display in-world slides included as textures is included within the … Continue reading

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Future My Love

The Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) is presenting a series of events at the 2015 Edinburgh International Science Festival. These inspiring, future-facing events will appear under the banner: What does a low carbon future look like? See http://edinburghcentre.org/events/EISF2015. The … Continue reading

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Using vorpX for Oculus Rift with FSX

This blog post describes tests of trying to use the “vorpX” (http://vorpx.com) drivers to allow games and applications on Windows to run on the Oculus Rift to provide a 3D virtual reality experience. Flight Simulator X (FSX) from Microsoft and … Continue reading

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Openvue Grid Teleporters

One the OpenSim-based Openvue grid main welcome and “Vue-Port” hypergrid portal regions there has been a board with a number of simple spheres that can be used to “click to directly teleport” to other regions on the grid or hypergrid … Continue reading

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UK Approach to UAVs

This blog post has been created to act as a note with links to help inform the public about UAVs and encourage involvement in debate on their ethical and legal control. A UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) publication raises issues … Continue reading

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Suters Store Slough – Supercar Window Display in 1962

On February 1, 2015 James Fielding posted an article on the Gerry Anderson/Anderson Entertainment web site showing images taken at the time by a then 11-year old Philip Suter of the displays in his family’s Suters Store in Slough on … Continue reading

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Hyperica – Listing of Hypergrid Accessible Virtual Worlds

Hyperica is a directory of Hypergrid destinations maintained by Maria Korolov of Trombly International. Entries can be submitted via this form. One facility Hyperica offers is a checker that grid are active… run typically once a day on an offset … Continue reading

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Diva Wifi on Windows

There is a later version of this blog post available (click here) including details of changes necessary from OpenSim 0.9.1.0. Diva Canto provides the popular “Diva Distribution (D2)” precompiled version of OpenSim which includes a number of addon modules. One … Continue reading

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High Fidelity – Goes Open Alpha

On 1st April 2015, High Fidelity was opened to anyone interested in an open “early alpha” stage following the developments over the last year with a smaller group. See this invitation blog post. I joined the High Fidelity alpha on … Continue reading

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