Tag Archives: OpenVCE

Open Educational Resources – Vue and OpenVCE

Posted on July 19, 2021 by Ai Austin

This is a blog post to support resources from the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) and Open Virtual Collaboration Environment (OpenVCE) activities to make them available on http://open.ed.ac.uk. Contact – Stephanie Farley (Charlie). Downloads available are in http://vue.ed.ac.uk/resources/open.ed/ See https://open.ed.ac.uk/virtual-world-simulator-platform-resources/ … Continue reading →

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openvce.net on web.archive.org

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Ai Austin

The OpenVCE.net (http://openvce.net) web site used Drupal for its content.  The underlying data base was turned off for security in 2017. The site now just has a number of key links active, such as the download and resources pages. Some pages … Continue reading →

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Sinespace – OpenVCE Region

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Ai Austin

Sine.space by Sine Wave Entertainment is a multi-user virtual world based on Unity3D. A previous blog post showed early experiments while the system was in test mode in 2015. The platform is now available to all, and users can add … Continue reading →

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OpenVCE Region on MOSES Grid

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Ai Austin

The OpenSimulator-based OpenVCE region has been reactivated on the MOSES Military Metaverse (http://militarymetaverse.org – no longer active) OpenSim grid to make this example of a virtual collaboration environment accessible for demonstrations to US federal and other agencies. The region contains … Continue reading →

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OpenVCE in Unity and VR

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Ai Austin

As described in this blog post, the OpenVCE region as it appears in OpenSim including its I-Zone/I-Rooms has been converted to Unity compatible assets via the OpenSim OAR Converter and combined with an earlier I-Room Unity application using the Smart … Continue reading →

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OpenVCE on MOSES Grid

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Ai Austin

The MOSES Grid has moved to new servers and avatars or regions that existed on the original grid are being restored or recreated using OpenSim Inventory Archives (IARs) for avatars or OpenSim Archives (OARs) for regions. The OpenVCE region has … Continue reading →

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OpenVCE and I-Room in Unity with VR

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Ai Austin

The Open Virtual Collaboration Environment (OpenVCE) initially created in Second Life and OpenSim along with its I-Room (virtual space for intelligent interaction) have been available for some time as OpenSim Archive (OAR) files and assets available in Second Life and … Continue reading →

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Unity and VR

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Ai Austin

This blog post documents some simple steps to get an initial Virtual Reality (VR) application built in Unity 5 to display and be controlled via the Oculus Rift DK2 Head Mounted Display (HMD) using Windows 10, Unity 5.2 and Oculus … Continue reading →

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Unity Project – OpenVCE and I-Room

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Ai Austin

In preparation for some testing of the free version of Unity 4.5.5 and the Oculus Rift integration, I have updated some of my earlier tests of Unity3D from 2010-2011. Several of these builds are demonstrated at http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~ai/unity/… OpenVCE The OpenSim-based … Continue reading →

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OpenSim Regions from the Open Source Community

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Ai Austin

The OpenSimulator community has made available a wide range of complete regions in OpenSim Archive (OAR) format that are freely available… often via the Creative Commons By Attribution Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC) use license… meaning they can be used freely, but not … Continue reading →

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