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Coursera AI Planning MOOC 2015 – Virtual World Meeting 27-Jan-2015

The fifth meeting of the 2015 AI Planning MOOC group session took place in Second Life on Tuesday 27th January 2015 at 7pm UT/GMT.

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Mesh Heads and Bodies in Second Life

Mesh heads and bodies have become more common place in Second Life.. especially as the technology to allow for them to be adjusted by the usual appearance user interface and sliders, and to allow...

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Coursera AI Planning MOOC 2015 – Virtual World Meeting 17-Feb-2015

The fifth meeting of the 2015 AI Planning MOOC group session took place in Second Life on Tuesday 17th February 2015 at 8pm UT/GMT.

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Virtual World Best Practice in Education 2015

The 8th annual Virtual World Best Practice in Education (VWBPWE 2015) conference took place from March 18th to 21st 2015 in Second Life and on the OpenSimulator-based Avacon Grid. The inbuilt Vivox...

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OpenVCE Presentation Systems

There are two presentations systems we have used in the Open Virtual Collaboration Environment (OpenVCE) in Second Life (and ported to OpenSim). Clever Zebra In-world Texture Presenter A means to...

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Sansara – Second Life Continent

Sansara is the name given to the original “mainland” (“continent”) land mass in Second Life. Some background is on the Second Life Wiki which includes a map naming various regions and showing their...

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View over Vue

Here is a nice view from Ai Austin’s AIAI2 office on the second floor of the I-Room on the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) region in Second Life. Must update the calendar Here is an image of an...

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Shields Sailboat in Second Life

In Second Life, for those interested in virtual sailing, there is a free sailboat available at Three Pines Sailing Resource Center (in June 2015).. accessible via the SLURL…...

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Drawingboard in Second Life and OpenSim

Using the Media on a Prim (MOAP) capability to display web pages, including JavaScript (.js) on faces of objects in Second Life and OpenSim, a simple drawing facility can be provided. Drawingboard –...

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SL12B – Second Life 12th Birthday

Second Life was officially launched on 23rd June 2003 and has now has reached its 12th Birthday. A range of exhibits are available to act as a showcase for what has been built by the Second Life...

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Vue – Maps in Second Life

Vue – the Virtual University of Edinburgh – is a virtual educational and research institute bringing together all those interested in the use of virtual worlds for teaching, research and outreach...

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Second Life – Ai Austin 9th Birthday

9th birthday… don’t look a year older… and the flight suit stays remarkable clean…

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Maps of Second Life

The Maps of Second Life Pavilion shows maps and information about the development of Second Life since its early test days… The Maps of Second Life Pavilion is accessible while the SL12B celebrations...

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Virtual Reality in Second Life and OpenSim using the CtrlAltStudio Viewer

David Rowe’s CtrlAltStudio Viewer allows 3D stereoscopic and Oculus Rift Head Mounted Display (HMD) viewers of Second Life and OpenSim-based Virtual Worlds. It supports gamepad controllers too, such as...

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Valkyrie Avatar

The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics is to get a NASA Valkyrie Robot in January 2016 as part of its Robotarium. The Valkyrie robotic platform was originally designed and built in 2013 to carry out search...

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SculptGL

A web-based mesh creation tool at http://stephaneginier.com/sculptgl/ Especially for Halloween

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Halloween in Second Life 2015

Ghost avatars in Second Life at Halloween 2015 2015 Second Life Creepy Crawl 2015 Run by Xiola Linden on 30th October 2015, this event visited a number of spooky locations with “appropriate” music for...

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Vue Display in Maps of Second Life

The Maps of Second Life Pavilion is accessible at New Kadath Lighthouse Art Gallery, New Kadath (34, 51, 22) – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Kadath/34/52/23. It is curated by Juliana...

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Fish4Knowledge Virtual World Pavilion – Move to Vue

The Fish4Knowledge Exhibition Pavilion and Underwater Gallery is moving across the bay from the “Edinburgh University” home it has had since it was created to the “Vue” region in October 2010, which...

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Second Life – Move from Edinburgh University to Vue

In early November 2015 the “Edinburgh University” region in Second Life was abandoned… with active facilities being moved to the Vue, Vue South and Edinburgh East regions. Edinburgh University was...

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