Monthly Archives: May 2014

Curio 3D Browser and Unity 3D VirtualWorldWeb

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Ai Austin

Curio is a 3D browser using the Unity platform to provide a multi-user online virtual world. After registering at http://virtualworldweb.com/ or http://thevww.com/ and creating an avatar (multiple personas are allowed in a single account) you can launch the browser in … Continue reading →

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WhiteCore Version of OpenSim – Update to 0.9.2

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Ai Austin

Rowan Deppeler (@greythane) one of the core WhiteCore developers has revamped the folders used to store grid configuration, persistent databases and region sim data, and cached/temporary files and data. This is to allow for an easier and less error prone … Continue reading →

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Mesh Avatars

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Ai Austin

Second Life avatars early on were based on an underlying custom mesh (Poser like) with the basic body shape, skin texture, eyes and basic hair. Then a range of “layers” to add clothing and the textures could be applied to … Continue reading →

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Hypergrid Hops on OpenSim between Kitely and Openvue

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Ai Austin

The commercial OpenSimulator-based Kitely grid, which implements a market place for virtual worlds good such as avatar clothing and building components, today announced it has enabled the “HyperGrid” to allow teleportation of avatars between their grid and other OpenSim grids … Continue reading →

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High Fidelity Alpha Tests – First Screens

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Ai Austin

[At 15th May 2014: This blog post is private and created for future visibility. It will only be opened once the alpha test phase is passed.] I have been invited to join in the alpha testing for the High Fidelity … Continue reading →

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Emoji in Web Pages

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Ai Austin

Emoji are pictograms used (typically) on cell phones, originating with the NTT DotCoMo. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji. A table of cut and pastable emoji is available at http://getemoji.com Emoji will only show on web pages where the underlying unicode pictograms are supported, … Continue reading →

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BMW Vision Gran Turismo

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Ai Austin

BMW have released their “Vision Gran Turismo” concept race car in Grant Turismo (GT6) for the Sony PlayStation PS3 with all the usual BMW visual features like kidney grill, short front overhand and the rear side window feature called the … Continue reading →

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OpenSim Supports Deep Seas and Minus 0m Underwater Builds

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Ai Austin

OpenSim supports terrain and objects that have negative height values and are below the “normal” terrain floor level of 0m (sea level normally being set to 20m). This allows for deep sea regions and underwater builds without adjusting the region … Continue reading →

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Online Learning @ Edinburgh Marketing

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Ai Austin

The University today (9th May 2014) ran a workshop for those engaged in online learning course promotion within the University. A new marketing kit with graphical items and style recommendations is available… EASE login required. Online Learning @ Edinburgh Staff … Continue reading →

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Edinburgh 3D Film Festival – Life in 3D Symposium 2014

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Ai Austin

https://sites.eca.ed.ac.uk/3dsymposium/ http://www.edinburgh-3d-film-festival.com Slide from invited talk by Dhanraj Vishwanath of St. Andrews University on neurology and psychology of 3D The Audience dons the Red/Green Glasses

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