OpenSimulator Community Conference 2022 – OSCC22

The OpenSimulator Community Conference (OSCC) is one of the longest running virtual conference series, having started in 2013 and run annually since. This is OSCC’s 10th year and the event celebrates 15 years of OpenSimulator as the first commit was January 31, 2007. The OpenSimulator community and Avacon Inc. come together to run the event on the OpenSimulator Community Conference (OpenSimCC) grid – http://cc.opensimulator.org:8005

The main keynote presentations area uses the adjacent corners of 4 sims to provide capacity for up to around 400 attendees.

There are many other regions for avatars, shopping, exhibition booths for presenters, OpenSim community hub, music and dance venues, etc.

Links to my blog posts on earlier OpenSimulator Community Conferences.. https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/?s=oscc

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Day One

The event opened with a visualisation of the commits to OpenSim over a period of 17 years…

Then continued with a panel of the OpenSim Core Developers…

Maria Korolov of Hypergrid Business then gave an overview of the status of PpenSim and OpenSim grids…

Graham Mills then described his Liverpool’s George’s Dock, a late Victorian transport hub in the 1890s. Graham used 3D model rezzing in front of the audience to illustrate his presentation.

Reiner Schneeberger/Art Blue and Juliette SurrealDreaming then presented ideas on AI art and its creation and use.

The Blue Man in Waking Dreams by WIZARDOZ CHROME taken at BURN2 in October 2022. BURN2 is the virtual representation of Burning Man in the Metaverse. Visitors are also invited to the experience in Craft-World on region “Upload”.
Enter in map craft-world.org:8002/Upload

DreamGrid – Outworldz – Statistics and New Facilities

Fred Beckhusen/Ferd Frederix gave a presentation on the DreamGrid distribution of OpenSim that is now widely used.

Day Two

Kay McLennan is Professor of Practice at the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement. She spoke on relaunching a University grid.

Then a panel from the Infinite Metaverse Alliance (IMA) discussed “Cultivate, Collaborate, Celebrate & Innovate” in virtual worlds. A discussion of the work on the SceneGate viewer was included.

Ada Radius (who is also a member of the Ruth2 and Roth2 mesh avatars team) and Kayaker Magic spoke about modifications to the standard avatar “character” folder to allow for a much better standard avatar that has more adaptability.