Tag Archives: Virtual World

Viverse – Resources

Posted on June 6, 2023 by bat

https://world.viverse.com/ Items can be placed in world scenes using upload of, for example, .glb models, or a selection of 3D models from Sketchfab. Avatars can be imported to Viverse in “VRM” format.

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For the Love of Fashion

Posted on March 29, 2023 by bat

This event is part of a year-long celebration marking sixty years of research into computer science and AI at the University of Edinburgh. Starting in 1963 with a small group of machine intelligence pioneers, and computer science innovators, the University … Continue reading →

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Metaverse Fashion Week 2023

Posted on March 28, 2023 by bat

Metaverse Fashion Week 2023 (#MVFW23) took place in a variety of virtual worlds and platforms including Spatial (https://spatial.io) in a space ghosted by Luis Fern and Metamundo which can be visited with Ready Player Me (https://readyplayer.me) avatars. This follows the … Continue reading →

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Supercar in Spatial

Posted on February 14, 2023 by bat

Visit Supercar in Spatial Here Using the Spatial Creator Toolkit for Unity (see this blog post for resources) I have imported the Blender/FBX version of our Gerry Anderson’s Supercar model into a scene which can be visited by multiple simultaneous … Continue reading →

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Roblox – 2023 NFL Concert

Posted on February 8, 2023 by bat

After checking out Roblox in July 2022, I returned to look at the “Rhythm City” experience created by Warner Music to accompany the 2023 NFL incorporating a motion captured virtual concert by Saweetie. More details here. Oh Dear! – Aspirational … Continue reading →

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Beorn’s House on OpenSim

Posted on September 23, 2022 by bat

Beorn’s House is a 256mx256m region for DreamGrid (OpenSim) with surrounding mountainous landscape and is part of the “Hobbiton Collection“/Shirelands of Hobbit/Lord of the Rings themed regions built by David Denny (avatar: Darkness Papp), licenced for exclusive use on the … Continue reading →

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Crystal Frost – Unity Viewer for Second Life and OpenSim

Posted on September 21, 2022 by bat

GitHub JennaScvl (Berry Bunny in Second Life, Kallisti#2038 on Discord) recently announced work on a Unity-based viewer for Second Life and OpenSim using LibreMetaverse. This blog post provides resources related to the development of Crystal Frost which is still at … Continue reading →

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WWF – saveyour.world

Posted on September 20, 2022 by bat

saveyour.world is a virtual world created for the World Wildlife Fund Deutschland and accessible using a Ready Player Me avatar.

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aiaustin.readyplayer.me

Posted on September 8, 2022 by bat

This blog post describes experiments with embedding the Ready Player Me Avatar Creator into an application. Initially I wanted to create a reliable and repeatable workflow to take Ready Player Me avatars into Second Life or OpenSim. This process used … Continue reading →

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Using Ready Player Me Avatars in Second Life and OpenSim (Bento Buddy)

Posted on September 8, 2022 by bat

This blog post is replaced by a later one here since developments have taken place in Ready Player Me and the Bento Buddy plugin for Blender. This blog post provides resources and information for a route to take Ready Player … Continue reading →

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Vogue Singapore – Virtual World Fashion in Spatial.io

Posted on September 5, 2022 by bat

The September 2022 and October 2022 issue of Vogue Singapore (https:/vogue.sg) linked the virtual world fashion of fashion designer Yimeng Yu (https://vogue.sg/fashion-designer-yimeng-yu/) with Ready Player Me avatars. https://spatial.io/s/Vogues-New-World-62fabe0cabce1e00010f6f9a?share=2054290015843864647 https://vogue.sg/lina-zhang-september-issue-2022/ https://vogue.sg/fashionsnewworld https://vogue.sg/fashion-designer-yimeng-yu/ https://vogue.sg/every-body-nft-vogue-singapore-metaartclub/ Ready Player Me Avatar Creator – Vogue Direct … Continue reading →

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Monaverse

Posted on August 23, 2022 by bat

Mona or Monaverse is a browser based virtual world platform that provides a number of separate experiences connected via portals – https://monaverse.com/ Mona accepts registration and logins by connecting a cryptocurrency wallet such as Metamask and WalletConnect. Or you can … Continue reading →

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Parallel by Tommy Hilfiger

Posted on August 21, 2022 by bat

Matching Virtual and In Real Life Outfits by Tommy Hilfiger – https://www.paralleltommyhilfiger.com/ Outfits Redeemed in Wardrobe

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Second Life – Resources

Posted on June 17, 2022 by bat

Web page: https://secondlife.com Downloads: https://secondlife.com/support/downloads/ Second Life Community Resources: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Community_Resources_Portal Second Life Discord Channel: please note that this is not intended as a general user/residents forum, it is for special developments and active projects group participants – Invite Link, Request … Continue reading →

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Spatial.io – Resources

Posted on June 10, 2022 by bat

Spatial (https://spatial.io) is a multi-platform virtual space for art exhibitions, events, virtual offices, etc. This blog post provides resources related to Spatial. https://spatial.io Getting Started Guide Documentation Twitter: @spatialxr Discord Invite Link: https://discord.com/invite/spatial Ready Player Me Avatar Integration Ai Austin’s … Continue reading →

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Frame – Resources

Posted on March 16, 2022 by bat

Frame (https://framevr.io) is a browser-based platform for immersive team collaboration, events, education, virtual offices, digital twins, etc. It can be embedded as a virtual space within Microsoft’s Teams. This blog post provides resources related to Frame. https://learn.framevr.io/resources – for FAQ, … 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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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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Make Avatar – Resources

Posted on January 22, 2022 by bat

This blog post is to provide resources and access links for Make Avatar (MakeAvatar™) by Haptic Monkey – a tool to create an avatar and its clothing which can be exported as a JSON (.json) file or to .glb (binary … Continue reading →

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Vircadia – Resources

Posted on January 20, 2022 by bat

Vircadia is the continuation of the previous work by High Fidelity (see my earlier blog posts). This blog post is to provide resources and access links for Vircadia – https://vircadia.com Download: https://vircadia.com/download-vircadia/ User Dashboard: https://dashboard.vircadia.com/ Documents: https://docs.vircadia.com/ Vircadia Interface Vircadia … Continue reading →

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Open Metaverse Interoperability (OMI)

Posted on December 12, 2021 by bat

This blog post is to provide resources and access links for initiatives related to virtual worlds and metaverse interoperability including avatar appearance and world content. https://omigroup.org – Bridging virtual worlds by designing and promoting shared protocols. I have previously blogged … Continue reading →

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Global Youth Engineering Climate Conference 2021

Posted on September 7, 2021 by bat

The Global Youth Engineering Climate Conference 2021 (GYECC21) online virtual event took place on 7th and 8th September 2021 with exhibits and facilities being available thereafter until 12-Nov-2021. Over 4,000 attendees for some 100 countries joined the event. Use #GYECC21 … Continue reading →

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Re-Vue

Posted on August 24, 2021 by bat

This blog post is to support a short project to have University of Edinburgh Information Services (IS) folks get started with (or return to) Second Life as part of the handover of some of the work with the Virtual University … Continue reading →

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Clever Zebra – OpenSim Assets

Posted on August 13, 2021 by bat

An updated version of the OpenVCE OAR file has been provided at 27-Feb-2022 in http://openvce.net/downloads/2022/ The OpenVCE project (http://openvce.net) contracted with Clever Zebra to produce the OpenVCE collaboration region virtual world assets for Second Life and OpenSim. Those assets are … Continue reading →

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New (Virtual) University of Edinburgh

Posted on July 9, 2021 by bat

Austin Tate has acted as the Coordinator for the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) since 2007 and acts as the administrator for the various collaboration facilities. These notes are intended as resources to assist in the transition of the assets … Continue reading →

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Hubs by Mozilla

Posted on July 7, 2020 by bat

Mozilla Hubs is a virtual collaboration platform that runs in a web browser on desktops, tablets and mobile devices. It can support wireless standalone VR headsets. Desktop VR setups like the Oculus Rift are supported via a WebVR compatible browser … Continue reading →

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AIAI Virtual World Social Space

Posted on April 1, 2020 by bat

This blog post is to provide details of of the virtual world and metaverse platform meeting spaces for AIAI in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Quickstart: Get an OpenSim avatar at http://osgrid.org if you don’t already … Continue reading →

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Sansar with Avatar 2.0

Posted on September 4, 2019 by bat

Linden Lab updated Sansar to use a new richer avatar skeleton referred to as “Avatar 2.0”. Sansar.com Website Sansar YouTube Channel Twitter Feed – @SansarOfficial Quests and Tutorials

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Pangea Roleplay on OpenSim Metropolis Grid

Posted on August 31, 2019 by bat

I have blogged before about the Pandora Universe group in Second Life which offers role play based on the “Avatar” film directed by James Cameron and based on Pandora, a moon of Alpha Centauri and the Na’vi that inhabit the … Continue reading →

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High Fidelity – Load Test – 6 July 2018

Posted on July 6, 2018 by bat

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.

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