Open Simulator {Tools}

motivation = Seedea:Oimp/VirtualAtelier

From personal use

• :help : the MOST important command ;)
• Tools#Inkscape -> Tools#Blender -> VR
• Design
• Objects#architecture

Official websites

• http://opensimulator.org/
  • http://twitter.com/opensim
• http://www.osgrid.org/
  • http://www.osgrid.org/elgg/pg/utilities/map
  • http://twitter.com/osgrid
  • profiles
    • http://www.osgrid.org/elgg/pg/profile/Utopiah.FB
    • http://www.osgrid.org/elgg/pg/profile/Ubit.Umarov (meet on #osgrid)
• freenode
  • irc://chat.freenode.org/opensim
  • irc://chat.freenode.org/opensim-dev
  • irc://chat.freenode.org/osgrid

Pedagogical uses

• science
  • ScienceSim started around 2008
  • the KeyExperiments Im especially interested in
• history
  • Seedea:Research.HistoryIdeaManagement
• non-meso scale (size way smaller or bigger than you or me) scientific displays, for example visiting a cell, a supernova, a human body, a CPU, ...
  • inspired by a dedicated building in a UK exhibition in which you could "visit a human body"
• Virtual Education WordPress blog, started in 2008

Alternatives

• Seedea:Seedea/Seedea#Interactions
• Open Wonderland
  • with Open Wonderland Foundation started in March 2010
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:3D_virtual_worlds

To explore

• interfaces
  • Composing in N-Dimensions by JoAnn Kuchera-Morin presenting The AlloSphere at the California NanoSystems Institute, UC Santa Barbara
• Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, founded in 1992, MIT Press Journal
• Open Metaverse Foundation non-profit organization founded with the mandate of developing open technologies and open-source software related to the metaverse and virtual worlds.
• sl_proxy (Proxy System for Second Life) by Network System Laboratory

Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.