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I-X – Intelligent Technology
This blog post is intended to provide a quick overview of our work on I-X – “Intelligent Technology”, its underlying <I-N-C-A> ontology, and especially its application to intelligent planning systems and intelligent collaborative spaces using I-Plan and I-Rooms. Austin Tate … Continue reading
Nonprofit Commons in Second Life
On 21-Dec-2018 the Nonprofit Commons (NPC, http://nonprofitcommons.org/) in Second Life held a Grand Opening of their newly renovated Community Virtual Library Nonprofit Resource Library along with ice skating to celebrate the last NPC meeting of 2018.
Posted in Second Life
Tagged Education, Second Life
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Webots
On 18-Dec-2018 Olivier Michel at http://cyberbotics.com let previous Webots users know that the platform has been made open source via GitHub… Today, after more than 20 years of proprietary licensing, Webots has become free open source software, released under the … Continue reading
Subnautica
Nautica is an exploration game based released by Epic Games in a watery world where your spaceship has crash landed and you have escaped in an escape pod equipped with a materials and equipment fabricator, materials analyser and limited storage … Continue reading
Dual Universe
I am a Kickstarter Funder for the emerging MMO orientated Dual Universe platform. Dual Universe Alpha 1 usage is subject to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) so this blog post only provides useful links and publicly posted images and videos by … Continue reading
Diva Wifi for OpenSim 0.9.1.0
OpenSim 0.9.1.0 changes the .NET Framework in use for compilation from 4.0 to 4.6. As at 12-Dec-2018 the sources for Diva’s addon modules are still based on .NET Framework 4.0 suitable for OpenSim versions up to the current stable 0.9.0.1. … Continue reading
Dreamgrid – Outworldz Dreamworld – OpenSimulator
Dreamgrid is an easy to use OpenSim platform created by Fred Beckhusen, aka Ferd Frederix. It includes MySQL, Dynamic DNS name provision, OpenSim 0.9.1.0 Dev, 1, Diva’s WiFi admin interface and a wide range of add on modules. It sets … Continue reading
Posted in OpenSim, Virtual World
Tagged DreamGrid, HyperGrid, OpenSim
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OpenSimulator Community Conference 2018 – OSCC18
The OpenSimulator Community Conference (OSCC18) ran again this year on December 8th to 9th, 2018 and was once again organised and run by Avacon.
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High Fidelity – Futvrelands
On 17th November 2018 High Fidelity ran a Futvrelands event in honour of VR Day.
Clamavi De Profundis – Tolkien Poems
Clamavi De Profundis is a family that loves to sing together and record inspiring and uplifting music. Their music is influenced by classical and fantasy literature as well as cinematic, traditional, religious, and classical music. In particular they have created … Continue reading
Internet Shopping circa 1995 – Comments to the Press
I was amused to come across a press clipping of a 1995 article in the Edinburgh Evening News (“Keying in a spot of lunch” by Lindsay Reid, Evening News, 29th April 1995) in which I am quoted with several comments … Continue reading
WordPress Blog Export and Import
I have been experimenting with export and reimport of WordPress blog posts and media content. If the Dashboard -> Tools -> Export (or under Dashboard -> Settings -> Export) was used to export “All” content and then the new destination … Continue reading
glTF
Robert Adams (Misterblue) has created the “Convoar” tool to convert OpenSim OAR files into glTF (GL Transmission Format). The following blog post goes into more detail. http://blog.misterblue.com/2018/2018-07-01-Convoar-and-Converting-OARS Robert explained to me that Convoar grew out of his personal project on … Continue reading
Elf Clan
Elf Clan is one of the oldest and largest virtual world fantasy role play groups. It has held lands in Second Life and various OpenSim grids. Its most recent home is on OSGrid but with affiliated Elf-themed regions on any … Continue reading
High Fidelity – Load Test – 7 Sept 2018
A load test of the High Fidelity virtual world platform took place on 7th September 2018 and at least 356 avatars were in world in the same location at peak. A lot of different tests and exercises were run, including … Continue reading
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Tagged HiFi, High Fidelity
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Sintel Resources
This page acts as a resource for the Blender Durian Open Source Movie Sintel Project and its Sintel character 3D models and avatars. More details at http://sintel.org Sintel Movie Download Sintel Avatar from http://u3d.at.ua/ by SaNEk (where you need to … Continue reading
Pisten Bully 3D Models
Kässbohrer Pisten Bully Models imported via Unity3D and into a range of environments… Original Models via 3DWarehouse.sketchup.com Pisten Bully 100 via 3dwarehouse.sketchup.com by Tomme123456789 Pisten Bully 300 via 3dwarehouse.sketchup.com by Digital Impressions
Fallingwater
Fallingwater in southwestern Pennsylvania is a vacation home designed in 1935 by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and often thought to be one of the finest buildings of the 20th Century. A lovely 3D openly accessible and modifiable model of the … Continue reading
OpenSim Castle Cathedral Interior
The Epic Castle region in OpemSim (as described in this blog post) has interiors for some of the buildings created by Leora Jacobus. the cathedral includes an animated pipe organ and other interesting elements.
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Tagged Castle, OpenSim
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Second Life Crystal Fortress
The Crystal Fortress is a gift provided in 2018 to avatars with premium subscriptions to Second Life. It provided a skybox for a 1024sq.m. plot that could be rezzed and placed at any height, interior furniture and a teleportation system … Continue reading
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Pontefract Liquorice Festival 2018
Pontefract is a market town in West Yorkshire which was recorded in the Magna Carta in 1217. It sits within the Rhubarb Triangle and is well known for the manufacture of Liquorice and Pontefract Cakes (Pomfret Cakes). It holds an … Continue reading
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Tagged Liquorice, Pontefract, Yorkshire
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High Fidelity – Load Test – 6 July 2018
A load test of the High Fidelity virtual world platform took place on 6th July 2018 and over 200 avatars were in world in the same location at peak.
Posted in Virtual World
Tagged High Fidelity, Virtual World
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Kässbohrer Pisten Bully Online Training
The Pisten Bully range of snow cats and ski piste grooming machines is manufactured by Kässbohrer in Germany. They have a driver and technician training academy which also includes online training courses for beginners and those interested in Pisten Bully … Continue reading
Posted in Virtual World
Tagged Kassbohrer, Pisten Bully, Ski, Snow
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Moving Content between Virtual Worlds
This article is published as: Tate, A. (2018) Moving Content from Second Life/OpenSimulator via Unity3D to new Social Virtual Reality Platforms, Virtual Education Journal (VEJ), Summer 2018, Special Issue on “What if…”, pp.30-35, (ed. Roseanne Vojtek). Published by Edovation. [Online … Continue reading
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Seven Dales Heritage Run 2018
The De Lacy Motor Club (D.L.M.C) in Yorkshire has been running rallies, car trials and driving tests for over 50 years as noted in my previous blog post. My wife Margaret and myself joined some other family members and entered … Continue reading
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Tagged De Lacy Motor Club, Rally
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GDPR for Vue
Vue is a virtual educational and research institute bringing together all those interested in the use of virtual worlds for teaching, research and outreach related to the University of Edinburgh. The Vue web site is at http://vue.ed.ac.uk. More information on … Continue reading
Virtual Worlds Technology for University of Edinburgh
Vue is a virtual educational and research institute bringing together all those interested in the use of virtual worlds for teaching, research and outreach related to the University of Edinburgh. This post summarises some of the virtual worlds technology that … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Virtual World
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Orcrist
Orcrist is an elf created sword found during the journey of Thoren Oakenshield, a dwarf, in Middle Earth… and features in the Hobbit movies. I handled the Orcrist prop used for the movie while on a visit to Weta Workshop … Continue reading
Sansar Sit
At long last avatars can be made to sit down in Sansar… see this blog post for details. Currently just cross-legged on the ground. Sitting can be initiated using “/sit” typed into local chat tool in desktop mode. A very … Continue reading
Somnium Space
Somnium Space (“Dream” or “Fantasy” from the Latin “somnus” for “sleep”) is a new virtual world from developers in Berlin aimed at virtual reality headsets.