I'm staying up late for this. Apparently, Philip Rosedale, the man who invented Second Life, will come to OSCC in some five minutes.

Metaworld Opensim Social wrote the following post Sun, 08 Dec 2024 09:37:10 +0100

Philip Rosedale joins OSCC for a fireside chat later today ...

#SecondLife #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OpenSimCommunityConference #OSCC #OSCC24 #OSCC2024
Metaworld Opensim Social (@[email protected])

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Ubit Umarov is at OSCC. With his OSgrid avatar.

Which means that OSgrid is back online for a change.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSCC #OSCC2024 #OSCC24 #OSgrid
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This is going to be one busy day in OpenSim. I'll have to skip the Discovery Grid farewell party, but I've never had close ties to that grid anyway.

Metaworld Opensim Social wrote the following post Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:08:58 +0100 OpenSimulator Community Conference starts today – Hypergrid Business
https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2024/12/opensimulator-community-conference-starts-today/?
Metaworld Opensim Social wrote the following post Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:17:42 +0100 HG Safari: Something for the Weekend
https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/2024/12/something-for-weekend.html

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #DiscoveryGrid #OpenSimulatorCommunityConference #OSCC #OSCC2024 #OSCC24
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España: Cristina Linares y Julio Díaz, investigadores del ISCIII, designados coordinadores científicos del Observatorio de Salud y Cambio Climático (#OSCC)
🗞️📷 https://www.redaccionmedica.com/secciones/ministerio-sanidad/el-observatorio-de-salud-y-cambio-climatico-designa-sus-2-guias-cientificos-1096
Coordinadores del Observatorio de Salud y Cambio Climático

Estos son los nuevos coordinadores científicos del Observatorio de Salud y Cambio Climático, ambos procedentes del ISCIII.

Redacción Médica
The OpenSimulator Community Conference is saving the best for last. At least for those of us who live in central Europe, 9 hours ahead of grid time, and who don't want to stay up all night for the late-late events.

  • 11:30 AM-12:30 PM PST/grid time:
    Shop during lunch! Hypergrid Shopping Tour: Where to find content
    I'm curious where Lyr Lobo will take us. And if she has taken the time to add some of my suggestions as actual destinations. Then again, @Juno Rowland or I could probably do an even longer specialise "So you've got a Ruth2 v4, and you're looking for clothes, but you don't want to resort to copybotted Second Life stuff" shopping tour. Have this wiki article instead.
  • 12:30 PM-1:30 PM PST/grid time:
    In Conversation: Mal Burns talks with Tish Shute
    Okay, that's a filler, but probably an interesting one, also because it takes a look at early OpenSim.
  • 1:30 PM-2:00 PM PST/grid time:
    The Open Metaverse Research Group
    Right now, the Open Metaverse Research Group appears to be a bunch of idealistic OpenSim users who want to achieve what industry and cryptobros, both with no knowledge of even OpenSim's existence whatsoever, are working on independently themselves. And it doesn't look like the OMRG has any associates outside the OpenSim community. Not to mention the state their very wiki is in. I hope this panel will convince me otherwise.
  • 2:00 PM-2:30 PM PST/grid time:
    Max – New Free Mesh bodies for OpenSim Avatars
    The most exciting panel of the whole event. Ada Radius presents the new "unisex" mesh body she has created this year, Max, that can be turned into a male variant named Maxwell and a female one named Maxine. It's the official successor of Ruth2 and Roth2 now, and just like them, it's free, open-source, legal and made in and for OpenSim by largely the same team. And it promises to provide a much better dev kit. I'll try to apply as a beta-tester, also because I don't want this body to go out there only lab-tested by its own devs.
  • 2:30 PM-3:00 PM PST/grid time:
    A Home for Arcadia Asylum
    Another topic dear to Ada, now joined by Kayaker Magic: the creations of Arcadia Asylum/Aley Arai/Lora Lemon/Aley Resident, at least what was successfully rescued and transferred to OpenSim. Kayaker has recently launched an entire grid specialising on Arcadia Asylum, and there'll be a tour through it tomorrow at 10 AM PST/grid time.


#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #OSCC #OSCC23 #Events #OMRG #OpenMetaverse #Max #Maxwell #Maxine #MeshBody #ArcadiaAsylum
Jupiter Rowland - [email protected]

Smooth Moves from Kelso Uxlay – OpenSimulator Community Conference

Next week's #HGSafari is the #seasonFinale and as usual we will #hypergrid to 2 standout destinations. the #Nara'sNook team will be showing off their NPC based storytelling project for #OSCC, and we visit Caro Fayray's beautiful art and science build on #osgrid.
@OpenSim

So Metaverse Day has been announced for January 2024.

If you don't want to wait for that long, but you want to attend a conference about #VirtualWords, the OpenSimulator Community Conference will take place on December 9th and 10th, 2023. Not the first one, but the 11th one.

It won't be about planning #TheMetaverse for the future. Rather, it will be about a decentralised #metaverse network that has been around and referred to as such for over 15 years: OpenSimulator.

Some facts for those who don't know it yet:
  • launched in 2007
  • free as in free beer
  • free as in #FreeSoftware (BSD License)
  • #OpenSource
  • cross-platform
  • based on the same technology as #SecondLife
  • needs no #blockchain
  • needs no #cryptocurrency
  • works without #NFTs
  • no #VR headset required, can be used on desktop and laptop computers
  • actually #decentralised: over 400 public grids, almost all of which are interconnected via the #Hypergrid
  • the Hypergrid has more than four times as much combined landmass as Second Life
  • cheap land: many grids offer 256x256m regions for $10/month or less
  • essentially infinite land resources because anyone can install and run their own #grid

The OpenSimulator Community Conference will probably be broadcast live via YouTube again. Videos from previous Community Conferences can be watched on AvaCon's Channel. Alternatively, it can be attended in person with an avatar. It can be created on the OpenSimulator Community Conference's own grid when registering for the event, or an existing avatar on most other grids can be used.

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #OSCC #OSCC23 #Decentralized
Metaverse Day

Metaverse Day makes its debut

metaverseday.com
Here's a premiere: the first #FollowFriday for #OpenSimulator.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about: OpenSimulator, also called #OpenSim, is a free and #OpenSource platform for 3-D #VirtualWorlds that uses largely the same technology as #SecondLife. It was launched as early as 2007. It mostly became a network of #federated, interconnected worlds (#grids) when the #Hypergrid was introduced in 2008. And "#Metaverse" has been a part of the standard OpenSim vocabulary since before 2010, too.

It currently measures about 420 public grids at various sizes from tiny to slightly larger than Second Life itself and countless private grids, the vast majority of which are on the Hypergrid.

So without further ado, here are some suggestions:

  • Shelenn Ayres
    #InfiniteMetaverseAlliance CEO. Co-organiser of the on-going #OpenSimFest #OSFest2023 that'll continue until the end of the month. Follow her now for the daily schedule. Also maybe your first #Friendica connection.
    → @Shelenn Ayres
  • Mal Burns
    Creator and main host of #InworldReview, also creator of several other YouTube video series about virtual worlds. One of the organisers of #HypergridInternationalExpo which will return next month after six years.
    → Main account: @Mal Burns Main
    → OpenSim account: @Metaworld Opensim Social
  • Thirza Ember
    Organiser of the weekly #HGSafari. One of the hosts of Inworld Review. Another one of the organisers of #HIE.
    → @Thirza
  • Tosha Tyran
    One of the four founders and owners of #CraftWorld, one of the five oldest grids. Another one of the organisers of HIE.
    → @Tosha T.
  • Kelso Uxlay
    Co-founder and co-owner of the #CreaNovale grid. Co-builder of the famous four-seasons varsim known as #Novale. And yet another one of the organisers of HIE.
    → @Kelso Uxlay
  • Lone Wolf
    Founder and owner of the #WolfTerritoriesGrid, the second-largest OpenSim grid. Might be the single person who owns the most virtual land in the world, but he offers it for rent. Also founder and owner of the OpenSimSocial #Mastodon instance.
    → @Lone Wolf
  • Hyacinth Jean
    Founder and owner of the #GroovyVerse grid and the GroovyToot Mastodon instance. Prolific #MeshBody maker; has forked Ruth 2.0 into #LuvMyBod and Diana and created her own private mesh body. Currently working on an alternative to #OpenSimWorld.
    → @Hyacinth 🏳️‍⚧️ ☮️
  • vrsimility
    Working on an authentic, detailed recreation of 19th century #Liverpool in OpenSim.
    → @vrsimility
  • OpenSimulator Community Conference
    The #OSCC is a yearly community event with a whole number of panels about OpenSim in particular and virtual worlds in general. Expect #OSCC23 to happen in December.
    → @OpenSim Community Conference
  • Finally, the OpenSim community on #Lemmy
    Not a user for a change, but a place on Lemmy for OpenSim users/avatars to meet and discuss.
    → @OpenSim


#FOSS #FLOSS #Decentralized #Decentralization #Decentralised #Decentralisation #VirtualWorld #WolfTerritories #WolfGrid #Ruth2 #OSFest
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@vrsimility Don't ask @Cheryl Furse for #OpenSim stats. She'll tell you what she believes as if it's a proven fact, and at the same time, she claims that all official stats, even those automatically submitted by grids to #HypergridBusiness, are all bogus.

The July stats on Hypergrid Business know of 419 active grids, but Hypergrid Business relies on people reporting the existence of grids to them which is why "new" grids have often been up and running for several months already. Anyways, 419 active grids and 200 world-wide OpenSim users would mean that everyone would have more than two grids practically constantly running on average.

According to the same stats, #DreamGrid has been installed 3,435 times so far. However, due to the nature of DreamGrids often residing on personal Windows computers at people's homes which are only started up when they're needed, there are no stats on how many of them actually count as active.

As for #OSCC, they don't publish any attendance stats AFAIK. All I know is that the grid is designed for 350 avatars of all roles combined. That's why visitors have to register first, and registrations are capped. Any given presentation may normally have some 70 or 80 avatars attending. It'd be pretty senseless to come to an OSCC presentation and bring a bunch of alts with you, especially since you're already encouraged to reduce the complexity of your main avatar for attending OSCC.
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