Tag Archives: Virtual World

Virtual Worlds Technology for University of Edinburgh

Posted on April 27, 2018 by bat

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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Orcrist

Posted on April 12, 2018 by bat

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 →

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Somnium Space

Posted on April 8, 2018 by bat

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.

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Bank of High Fidelity

Posted on March 26, 2018 by bat

High Fidelity now has a cryptocurrency “Wallet” in which High Fidelity Coins” can be deposited, paid out and transferred to other avatars. To seed the currency early alpha tester users can obtain a starter amount of coins by visiting the … Continue reading →

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Vue Virtual World Artworks

Posted on December 14, 2017 by bat

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. A number of virtual world artworks have been created in … Continue reading →

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Vue -> Openvue

Posted on November 30, 2017 by bat

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. Second Life is a virtual worlds platform provided by Linden … Continue reading →

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Sine.space – 2001: a Space Odyssey

Posted on February 15, 2017 by bat

As of September 2017, the 2001 Space Station and Orion III Shuttle can be found on the “Space Station” region in sinespace. You arrive at the International Space Station (ISS). It is quite a way off, so look around for … Continue reading →

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Virtual World Platforms – CPU and GPU Load Comparisons

Posted on January 9, 2017 by bat

I have done some performance monitor and CPU/GPU load comparisons for established virtual worlds like Second Life (Linden Lab viewer 5.0.0) and OpenSim (Firestorm Viewer 5.0.0) and emerging virtual world platforms like High Fidelity and Sine Space. Windows 10 Xeon … Continue reading →

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Sine.space – Castle Region

Posted on November 24, 2016 by bat

Sine.space by Sine Wave Entertainment is a multi-user virtual world based on Unity3D. Another blog post gives details of the development process for a custom region using content created in OpenSim and brought across to Unity3D via the OAR Converter. … Continue reading →

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Sinespace – OpenVCE Region

Posted on November 15, 2016 by bat

Sine.space by Sine Wave Entertainment is a multi-user virtual world based on Unity3D. A previous blog post showed early experiments while the system was in test mode in 2015. The platform is now available to all, and users can add … Continue reading →

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Van Gogh at Arles on OpenSim

Posted on November 3, 2016 by bat

The OpenSimulator-based Littlefield Grid (LFGrid) has a wonderful “Arles” area created by Mudpuddle Cleanslate. It can be visited by any avatar from any Hypergrid-enabled OpenSim grid (such as OSGrid) via this location… hop://lfgrid.com:8002/Arles/177/129/22 Mudpuddle Cleanslate wrote: … Van Gogh’s Virtual … Continue reading →

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DreamWorld – Outworldz OpenSim Installer

Posted on October 10, 2016 by bat

DreamWorld is an OpenSimulator world to demonstrate an easy to use OpenSim setup program called the “Outworldz Installer” created by Fred Beckhusen, aka Ferd Frederix. It includes MySQL, the Diva Distribution (“D2”) of OpenSim 0.8.2.1, Diva’s WiFi admin interface and … Continue reading →

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Ai Austin @ 10

Posted on August 6, 2016 by bat

Ai Austin is 10 years old in Second Life today (joined on 6th August 2006)… Here are Ai’s outfits built up over the period in Second Life… Ai’s skin was a gift back in 2006 from a fellow educator who … Continue reading →

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Halcyon MOSES Grid Testing

Posted on July 29, 2016 by bat

Halycon is the virtual world server code base used by the InWorldz grid. The code is a branch of the OpenSimulator code, and has been contributed back to the wider OpenSimulator community (see this InWorldz blog post). Halcyon is being … Continue reading →

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Migration of Openvue to a New Server

Posted on July 22, 2016 by bat

These notes are to document the steps taken to migrate an existing OpenSim grid (Openvue) to a new Windows server. There are basically two mechanisms: Via a SQL transfer (mysqldump and load) which is the method documented here. Via OpenSim … Continue reading →

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VRLand – A Community and Test Region for Virtual Reality in Virtual Worlds

Posted on July 20, 2016 by bat

“VRLand” is a region on the OpenSim-based OSGrid provided to act as a meeting place and community hub for those wanting to test virtual reality in virtual worlds like OpenSimulator (OpenSim) and Second Life. hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/VRLand/128/128/20 You can visit over the … Continue reading →

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Second Life Visual Outfits Browser

Posted on June 16, 2016 by bat

A version of the Second Life Viewer which support a visual gallery of avatar outfits is being tested. The Outfits tool is extended to include a “Visual Outfits Browser” (VOB). Thumbnails (typically 256×256 or 128×128 images) can be created in … Continue reading →

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Sim-on-a-Stick for OpenSim Development and Testing

Posted on May 17, 2016 by bat

Ener Hax’s “Sim-on-a-Stick” (http://simonastick.com) is a very useful prebuilt setup that allows a local copy of OpenSimulator to be quickly used for a new development or test environment. It can be used to create a fresh setup each time tests … Continue reading →

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MOSES Office Hours 13-May-2016

Posted on May 13, 2016 by bat

The MOSES military metaverse grid members hold regular weekly “office hours” presentations and discussion meetings. At this specific meeting there was a discussion of the “Redmine” Wiki used for development and community contributions within team members of the MOSES project, … Continue reading →

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OpenVCE Region on MOSES Grid

Posted on May 10, 2016 by bat

The OpenSimulator-based OpenVCE region has been reactivated on the MOSES Military Metaverse OpenSim grid to make this example of a virtual collaboration environment accessible for demonstrations to US federal and other agencies. The region contains a range of meeting facilities … Continue reading →

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Project Sansar – Alpha Signup

Posted on April 27, 2016 by bat

On 26th April 2016, Linden Lab invited developers to sign up for invitations for early alpha access to Project Sansar. Update 31st August 2016: Change of Logo and Domain Name Linden Lab announced in a press release on 31st August … Continue reading →

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Roller Coasters in OpenSim

Posted on December 20, 2015 by bat

I previously wrote about the roller coasters on OSGrid’s Recreation Plaza created by Cuteulala Artis and colleagues. Cuteulala has also provided a free access roller coaster that anyone can use. But everyone is asked to respect the open source nature … Continue reading →

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OpenSimulator Varregion Tests

Posted on December 16, 2015 by bat

Normally Second Life and OpenSim have regions which are 256m X 256m in size. Regions can be placed alongside one another to make up larger land masses, as is done with the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) regions which can … Continue reading →

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OpenSimulator Community – Animation of Code Commits

Posted on December 1, 2015 by bat

Nebadon Izumi (Michael Emory Cerquoni) has created an animation of code commits to the OpenSimulator project for the OpenSimulator Community Conference 2015. It is produced from the OpenSim Git commit repository using Gource. The YouTube video of the commits in … Continue reading →

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Second Life Avatars

Posted on November 8, 2015 by bat

Second Life has a new set of “mesh attachment” avatars called “Classic” available through the initial account creation page at http://join.secondlife.com and through the “Me -> Choose an Avatar” in the viewer. It is interesting that Linden Lab chose to … Continue reading →

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Sine.space Exploration

Posted on October 27, 2015 by bat

Sine.space (http://sine.space) by Sine Wave Entertainment is a multi-user virtual world based on Unity3D created by a company that already provides a range of “white label” virtual worlds to other companies, including GoJiyo and Wet.fm. Rohan Freeman and Adam Frisby … Continue reading →

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Fish4Knowledge Pavilion and Underwater Gallery in OpenSim

Posted on October 20, 2015 by bat

The Fish4Knowledge Virtual World Gallery and Underwater pavilion was originally created in Second Life but has now been replicated on the OpenSimulator-based Openvue grid and OSGrid. OSGrid provides free avatar to anyone so is a good way to visit the … Continue reading →

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OpenVCE in Unity and VR

Posted on October 5, 2015 by bat

As described in this blog post, the OpenVCE region as it appears in OpenSim including its I-Zone/I-Rooms has been converted to Unity compatible assets via the OpenSim OAR Converter and combined with an earlier I-Room Unity application using the Smart … Continue reading →

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OpenVCE on MOSES Grid

Posted on September 30, 2015 by bat

The MOSES Grid has moved to new servers and avatars or regions that existed on the original grid are being restored or recreated using OpenSim Inventory Archives (IARs) for avatars or OpenSim Archives (OARs) for regions. The OpenVCE region has … Continue reading →

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Project Sansar

Posted on September 25, 2015 by bat

Project Sansar – https://projectsansar.com/ – from Linden Lab is now available to an invited initial testing community. The welcome/login screens show a lush mountainous terrain overlaid with wireframe buildings, vehicles and other objects. Internet Explorer seems not to be supported, … Continue reading →

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