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Sailboat around Bellisseria
Time to take the Bandit 50 Sailboat (from The Mesh Shop) out for a more extensive run down the West coast of Bellisseria, the New Linden Homes Bellisseria Continent in Second Life. Sailing with the Ruth 2.0 open source low-poly … Continue reading
Speedboats around Bellisseria
Having tried a range of aerial vehicles and a yacht in the New Linden Homes Bellisseria Continent in Second Life, I explored some other vehicles. I found several nice speedboats in the Second Life Marketplace from Michie Yokosuka – Michie … Continue reading
Balloon over Bellisseria
Having tried a helicopter over the New Linden Homes Bellisseria Continent in Second Life, I explored some other vehicles from the same creator. I found a lovely free balloon on the Second Life Marketplace from Michie Yokosuka – a Michie … Continue reading
Helicopter over Bellisseria
There are a number of people travelling by helicopter over the New Linden Homes Bellisseria Continent in Second Life. So I thought I would try one out. I found a lovely free one on the Second Life Marketplace from Michie … Continue reading
Supercar over Bellisseria
The new airstrips, boat rez zones and car rez zones have now appeared on and around Bellisseria continent, the location of the New Linden Homes in Second Life. Daniel Voyager – Blog Post 24-Apr-2019 – Airstrip, Boat and Car Rez … Continue reading
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Skydiving at Ai Pad in Second Life
Following me setting up a base in a houseboat on the New Linden Home Continent of Bellisseria in Second Life, I have been trying out a few vehicles, and thought I would reactivate my old Skydiving setup back from when … Continue reading
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New Linden Homes 2019
New Linden Homes 2019 are available for Premium Members in Second Life. Details via: Second Life – Wiki – New Linden Homes 2019 Second Life – Blog Post 15-Apr-2019 Second Life – Sign up for a Linden Home Second Life … Continue reading
Black Hole
A black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time by a network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The image shows a supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier … Continue reading
Virtual Worlds in VR
This blog post is a reminder that we can still view OpenSimulator and Second Life content in Virtual Reality (VR) headsets such as the Oculus Rift using the CtrlAltStudio viewer. Though this viewer is based on an older version of … Continue reading
3D Modelling Info
This blog post is intended to provide some information and resources links for 3D computer modelling tools and development and delivery platforms to combine models to create virtual worlds and make these available to multiple simultaneous users. 3D Modellers There … Continue reading
Virtual Harmony – Mars Expedition
Virtual Harmony is an OpenSimulator-based educational simulation grid with contributions by Barbara Truman at the University of Central Florida, Cynthia Calongne at Colorado Technical University, Andrew Stricker at the Air University and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. An award winning rich … Continue reading
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Tagged Mars, OpenSim, Simulation
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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.
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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
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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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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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