Tag Archives: Oil Rig

Oil Rig Training Experience in Firestorm VR

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Ai Austin

The RGU Oil Rig enhanced education and virtual training experience created by the Robert Gordon University (RGU) Oil & Gas Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland ported to OpenSim OSGrid has been tested in Peter Kappler’s Firestorm VR 6.0.1. The VR mode … Continue reading →

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OSCC17 Hypergrid Tour

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Ai Austin

Thirza Ember introduced the Hypergrid Safari in a talk on 10th February 2017 at the OpenSimulator Community Conference 2017 (OSCC17)… Then later that day, the OpenSimulator Community Conference 2017 Hypergrid Safari included five locations on a number of OpenSim grids … Continue reading →

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Sinespace – RGU Oil Rig at Night

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Ai Austin

The RGU Oil Rig is now in a single region which is on a one hour day/night cycle (similar to that used on Second Life). Visit via http://sine.space/locations/oil-rig The RGU Oil Rig 3D model and virtual world environment in OpenSimulator … Continue reading →

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Virtual Oil Rig – Enhancing Higher Education

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Ai Austin

A poster of the work on the RGU Virtual Oil Rig and related educational experiences to enhance learning and training for offshore oil rig workers was presented at the 3rd International Enhancement in Higher Education Conference: Inspiring Excellence – Transforming … Continue reading →

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Sine.space – RGU Oil Rig Region – Live

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Ai Austin

The RGU Oil Rig is now in a single region which is on a one hour day/night cycle (similar to that used on Second Life). Visit via http://sine.space/locations/oil-rig The Sinespace RGU Oil Rig region using Colin Hetherington’s meshes, originally in … Continue reading →

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Sine.space – RGU Oil Rig Region

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Ai Austin

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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Oil Rig Training Environment in VR

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Ai Austin

To be honest, this blog post started out as a test of the performance with various graphics options to try CtrlAltStudio viewer with an NVidia GTX1080 GPU. But the performance even on maximum “ultra” graphics settings with shadows was so … Continue reading →

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Oil Rig on OSGrid

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Ai Austin

The Robert Gordon University Oil and Gas Centre Oil Rig mesh-rich demonstration OpenSim Archive (OAR) by Colin Hetherington has been mounted on a region on OSGrid provided on Vue (the Virtual University of Edinburgh) servers … and an image is … Continue reading →

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Vue Regions on OSGrid

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Ai Austin

OSGrid is the primary grid used by members of the OpenSim community for development, testing, sharing content and social events. It allows those with servers to add on regions very easily and without cost. OSGrid runs entirely with volunteer effort … Continue reading →

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Oil Rig in Virtual Reality

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Ai Austin

A realistic Oil Rig 3D mesh model used by Robert Gordon University (RGU) Oil & Gas Centre in Aberdeen for training purposes and as an educational resource has been provided in the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) hosted OpenSimulator-based OSGrid … Continue reading →

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