Monthly Archives: October 2015

Halloween on OSGrid 2015

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Ai Austin

The 2015 Halloween Party on OSGrid’s All Hallows Plaza… 31 Oct 2015 12:00 SLT

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Halloween in Second Life 2015

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Ai Austin

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 the occasion… see https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Get-Your-Costumes-Ready-for-Friday-s-Inworld-Creepy-Crawl/ba-p/2975298

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SculptGL

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Ai Austin

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

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Sine.space Exploration

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Ai Austin

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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Valkyrie Avatar

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Ai Austin

The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics is to get a NASA Valkyrie Robot in March 2016 as part of its Robotarium. The Valkyrie robotic platform was originally designed and built in 2013 to carry out search and rescue missions in line … Continue reading →

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OpenSim OAR Convert to Unity Scene with Windows Interface

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Ai Austin

News 19-Nov-2016: The licence for OAR Converter was clarified on 19th November 2016 to ensure users and other developers realised this was intended to be openly and freely usable but to leave the copyright notice, author credits and liability statement … Continue reading →

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Fish4Knowledge Pavilion and Underwater Gallery in OpenSim

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Ai Austin

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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InSpace Gallery – January 2007 Artists Walkway

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Ai Austin

OpenSimulator-based Openvue grid Informatics virtual InSpace gallery with images and art from the external walkway that was in place in January 2007 during construction of the Informatics Forum. Visit with any OpenSim hypergrid enabled grid avatar, e.g. one from OSGrid. … Continue reading →

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Virtual Reality for Gerry Anderson Locations

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Ai Austin

Gerry Anderson locations for the TV series Supercar, Fireball XL5 and Stingray have been recreated using fan produced 3D models of the buildings, scenery and vehicles used in the TV shows. These have been used in OpenSimulator to create 3D … Continue reading →

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Virtual Reality in Second Life and OpenSim using the CtrlAltStudio Viewer

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Ai Austin

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 the Xbox gamepad. Version 1.2.5.43397 (3rd October 2015) had been updated … Continue reading →

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