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Fish4Knowledge Pavilion and Underwater Observatory in Second Life and OpenSim
The Fish4Knowledge has an exhibition pavilion and an underwater observatory/aquarium in Second Life and OpenSim. Second Life The Second Life Fish4Knowledge facility has been in place on the “Edinburgh...
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OpenVCE Virtual World Region on the Move
OpenVCE is a virtual world collaboration region created for the Open Virtual Collaboration Environment (http://openvce.net) in conjunction with Clever Zebra and released as open source assets under the...
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OpenVCE Region in 3D via Kirstens Viewer
While we wait for the Oculus Rift, you might want to get your 1950s-style red+cyan 3D specs out and take a look at this Anaglyph 3D view of the OpenVCE region in Second Life/OpenSim captured with...
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VCE Region in Second Life Closes
The OpenVCE.net project region in Second Life – “VCE” – is now closed… and the final archiving of its contents has taken place and some snapshots in the sunset taken… The main I-Rooms and other...
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Hedlamp Project Area in Second Life and OpenSim
Hedlamp is a joint EPSRC-funded project between Huddersfield University (Lee McCluskey and Lukas Chrpa) and the University of Edinburgh (Gerhard Wickler and Austin Tate). Its formal title is “Machine...
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Firestorm Viewer Third Anniversary
The Firestorm Virtual Worlds Viewer is three years old and a “Third Anniversary Party” was held in Second Life, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary too.
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Ready Player One – Aech’s Basement Chatroom in Second Life
I previously mentioned the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and its depiction of a pervasive virtual world of the future… in my post on 12th May 2013. Aech’s basement Chatroom from the novel has...
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Virtual University of Edinburgh Graduation – Vet School
The Vet School graduation ceremony in the morning of 29th November 2013 was streamed into Second Life…
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Virtual University of Edinburgh Graduation – School of Education
The School of Education graduation ceremony in the afternoon of 29th November 2013 was streamed into Second Life… YouTube Video (2 Minutes 50 Secs)
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Coursera AI Planning MOOC – First Virtual World Meeting
The first meeting of the AI Planning MOOC group took lace in Second Life on Wednesday 15th January 2014 at 8pm UT/GMT. Around 30 participants turned up to sort out their virtual world viewer setup,...
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in OpenSim
Camryn Darkstone created a build to showcase the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Second Life and this is now available in OpenSim.
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Coursera AI Planning MOOC – Second Virtual World Meeting
Second meeting with 30 avatars present.
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Coursera AI Planning MOOC – Third Virtual World Meeting
Third meeting with 12 avatars present.
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Oculus Rift for 3D Virtual Worlds
Getting ready for testing the Oculus Rift 3D VR headset and the Kinect for Windows and Leap Motion controllers by installing and using David Rowe’s CrtlAltStudio Viewer for Second Life and OpenSim…
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Coursera AI Planning MOOC – Fourth Virtual World Meeting
The fourth meeting of the AI Planning MOOC group took place in Second Life on the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) facilities on 9th February 2013. 12 people attended in total. The group viewed...
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Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference 2014
The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (VWBPE) event takes place in Second Life and on the OpenSimulator-based OSGrid from April 7th to 9th, 2014. The conference web site is at...
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Philip Rosedale Keynote in Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education...
Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Labs and now High Fidelity, provided the opening keynote at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (VWBPE) 2014 run in Second Life and the...
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Ebbe Altberg Keynote in Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference...
Ebbe Altberg, the new CEO of Linden Labs, provided a keynote address at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (VWBPE) 2014 run in Second Life. The Second Life audience count was...
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Mesh Avatars
“Rigged Mesh Avatars” have been used in Second Life and OpenSim for the last few years and allow replacement of the default avatars used in these virtual worlds. Avatars can be created in normal 3D...
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