Monthly Archives: February 2022

OpenVCE for OpenSim 2022

Posted on February 27, 2022 by bat

The OpenVCE OpenSim Archive (OAR) file provides a collaboration and meeting area. It can be loaded onto any OpenSim region to provide a range of useful facilities for a group or community. The OpenVCE virtual world assets were originally provided … 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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History of SecondLife and OpenSim VR Viewers

Posted on February 20, 2022 by bat

These notes were originally posted on the Discord Firestorm VR Mod channel to explain the history behind the various 3D and VR Viewers for Second Life and OpenSim. They are collected together here for convenience. Pre-VR HMD 3D Approaches The … Continue reading →

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Second Life Reading Matter

Posted on February 18, 2022 by bat
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Musee Dezentral – NFT Museum

Posted on February 18, 2022 by bat

A browser-based viewer to look at Non-Fungible Token (NFT) owned artworks in the Metaverse created by @museedezentral. A Ready Player Me avatar can be used for your own appearance, though on a visit I could not seem my own avatar … Continue reading →

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Metaverse Fashion Week 2022

Posted on February 17, 2022 by bat

Fashion designer Jonathan Simkhai (@JonathanSimkhai) partnered with @Everyrealm & @BlueberryMeta to produce avatar clothing and the Metaverse Fashion Week runway fashion show event inside Second Life. The event was covered in various fashion magazines and on fashion web sites. Learn … 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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Silent Running

Posted on February 12, 2022 by bat

The 1972 Film “Silent Running” directed by Douglas Turnbull has a central plot of a future where scientists have sought to protect the environmental diversity of Earth’s natural resources by creating a protected “island” in space – on converted commercial … Continue reading →

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Blade Runner in Second Life

Posted on February 6, 2022 by bat

A Second Life build by Hera (zee9) depicting the city scene from the 1982 film Blade Runner. Visit via the arrival portal on the Cloud Lake region via https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cloud%20Lake/98/100/395 and then click on the board to Blade Runner… http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cloud%20Lake/124/148/46 See … Continue reading →

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Hypergrid Safari – Travel Outfit and Travel Kit

Posted on February 2, 2022 by bat

HG Safari Visit on 2nd February 2022 at 12 noon SLT (20:00 hrs UT) Topic: Travelling in the Metaverse – Defining Your Travel Outfit and Suitcase Host: Ai Austin Date and Time: 2-Feb-2022, 12 noon SLT (20:00 hrs UT) Gathering … Continue reading →

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360° Snapshots in OpenSim

Posted on February 1, 2022 by bat

We have had the capability to create 360° Snapshots in Second Life since 2016 and the full release of the capability in the default viewer from 2021. Now Firestorm 6.5.3 is incorporating the same capability, allowing 360° Snapshots in both … Continue reading →

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