Gridjumper's Blog | Collaborative 3D Environments for Teaching and Learning Virtual worlds, avatars, 3D chat, online meetings - Second Life Plant a Question, Grow Answers Topic (required) Type the topic of your new AnswerGarden. This can be a question or a topic, such as: "What do you think of my website?" More options (optional) For your convenience, you can change the following settings for your new AnswerGarden. AnswerGarden Mode In Classroom Mode respondents can submit an unlimited number of answers, but may only submit each answer once. Answer Length (New!) You can set the answer length to 20 or 40 characters. Admin Password You can enter a password that enables you to edit this AnswerGarden (such as the topic, unwanted answers and mode) afterwards. Show password Reminder Email Enter an email address and you'll receive an email containing the AnswerGarden link and admin password. It's ok to send me very occasional news about AnswerGarden. Spam Filter Filter that detects and removes common unwanted answers is now turned off. Broadcast on your current local network
Comparison of Second Life and Facebook Interactions « sarahcbain Comparison of Second Life and Facebook Interactions The conclusive observation made overall concerning Facebook and Second Life entails the differences in motivations for projection of identity, network aesthetics, and the concept of communities. The common trend found in the examination of SL interactions was the need for escapism and to transform oneself into a false identity. The feelings associated with the first creation of a Second Life avatar are that of nervousness and intimidation. An island for newcomers was available for teleport and was less than empty, but the avatars that crammed the island were like androids, speaking to no one. After receiving the promotional clothing items, one of the main challenges presented in the game was essentially figuring out how to dress the avatar. It was impossible to differentiate whether the identities projected were authentic or inauthentic based on the vast amount of avatars present on the island. References Cupchik, G. Like this:
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Screen sharing for OpenSim I mentioned yesterday in an article about Utherverse that those guys have application sharing for their virtual world platform, but that there’s nothing equivalent for Second Life and OpenSim, except through third-party services. By coincidence, I was cleaning out my in-box yesterday, and found a link to just such a service: Screenleap. It’s free, and takes just a second to set up. The way it works is — once you tell it that you’re okay with running the plugin — you get a little pop-up window that asks you if you want to share the entire screen, or just a portion of it, and lets you pause or stop sharing. Next, it gives you a link to your sharing screen. What you do is copy that link and use it to set up a media-on-a-prim screen anywhere on your OpenSim region. You need to be using a viewer that supports media-on-a-prim, which includes Firestorm and any other v2 or v3-compatible viewer. I set this up, and pasted the URL they gave me on a screen in my virtual office.
Télécharger Google Chrome bêta 3.0.195.4 01net le 05/08/09 à 19h26 Le navigateur de Google progresse par petits pas. Depuis ce mercredi 5 août 2009, une nouvelle bêta est disponible en version 3.0.195.4, uniquement pour Windows (télécharger Chrome 3.0.195.4). Il s'agit d'une édition intégrant de nouvelles fonctions par rapport à la version finale 2.0, et que Google a estimé suffisamment stable pour la proposer en téléchargement au plus grand nombre sur sa page spéciale. Cette nouvelle édition de Chrome comprend une gestion améliorée des onglets, une nouvelle omnibox (la barre d'adresse « intelligente » de Chrome) et la prise en charge des thèmes, dont les premiers exemplaires viennent d'être livrés. Chrome 3.0 (et ses déclinaisons ultérieures) a en outre un avantage capital sur la version 2.0 stable du navigateur : la rapidité.
Large Event Preparation | Second Pandora Large Event Preparation There are a few things you can do to prevent that a large scale event involving many avatars on the sim will turn out to be a stuttering lag monster. Be aware that only one badly configured avatar can stop all movement on the entire sim. 1. Strip your avatar from any unneeded scripted parts, any fancy microprim jewels or microprim hair. I know, we all want to look good but each prim and prim texture has to be drawn by the sim server. 2. Watch Your Scripts Attaching complex objects TO YOUR AVATAR. Here is the list of performance killers: - Remove all Resizer scripts and unnecessary scripts in anything you are wearing. - Remove bling, remove any attachment you really don’t need they all add up, including gestures. - Remove all combat huds such as QUANTUM, PHENOM, MEPHISTO, XHUD, TOLERENCE ZERO. - Remove Scripted weapons when not engaged in active roleplay battle. - Set your draw distance to 100 meters max (Edit / preference / graphics / draw distance) Like this:
Les internautes modèrent naturellement leurs pages de profils Les recruteurs regardent désormais les pages des candidats sur les réseaux sociaux. Une attitude qui pousse les jeunes diplômés à gérer le contenu affiché pour qu'il leur ressemble sans les trahir. Les jeunes diplômés savent désormais se servir à bon escient de leurs pages de profil sur les réseaux sociaux. L'université de Dayton, qui publie une étude sur le sujet, s'est ainsi rendue compte que les étudiants sont conscients du rôle que jouent les réseaux sociaux dans le processus de recrutement.
Duran Duran's Olympics Opening Show for Four Billion Viewers Expected to Feature Second Life Duran Duran has had an official presence in Second Life since 2006, which a lot of SLers have known, but here's some other people who will get a glimpse of what they do in SL: basically, the whole fricking world. This is because Duran Duran will perform in the opening ceremony of the Olympics next week, on July 27th, and their onstage act is expected to incorporate SL machinima from Duran Duran island, displayed on the big screens behind them. So Olympics viewers will see the place in SL with the giant lipstick and a Duran Duran dirigible and now (as the above suggests) avatars getting into an Olympic frame of mind. "We shot footage for the stage screens for the Duran Duran appearance in Hyde Park Olympic's opening event," Chrissy Welinder, head of Duran Duran's SL fan group, tells me. They're performing live onstage with folks like Snow Patrol and Stereophonics, and the expected audience for the opening is four billion viewers.
Le Web en temps réel: nouvel Eldorado ou Plus d’une semaine sans avoir écrit une seule ligne sur mon blogue… Syndrome de la page blanche??? Non, c’est juste une panne d’inspiration… Ce matin, c’est l’ami Christian Joyal, qui m’a «dépanné» sur Twitter. Christian venait de publier ce Tweet: @iamkiai: Betting on the Real-Time Web Référence est faite à un article paru dans l’édition Web de BusinessWeek sur un nouveau phénomène qui est en train de monter en puissance, qui est la nouvelle «lubie» de l’ami Laurent Maisonnave et qui se nomme le «Real-Time Web». Pour les investisseurs Internet tels que Borthwick ou Ron Conway, c’est un marché de plusieurs milliards de dollars au cours des cinq prochaines années. It’s all about Data… Vous connaissez ma lubie pour les données sur le Web…C’est là l’enjeu crucial… Le futur du Web va se jouer sur ces données. De son côté, Google, qui d’autre, a lancé plus tôt cette année, sa nouvelle option Google Squared.
ScienceSim land grants announced Press release: Fashion Research Institute Announces ScienceSim Land Grant Program Awardees New York, NY – Fashion Research Institute has been collaborating with Intel Labs since 2009, helping to push the limits of content development, and overseeing the Science Sim Land Grant Program. The program consists of awards of campuses of four ‘supersized’ 3D volumes called regions, which can support 100,000 primitive units. These campuses are awarded for a six-month period to educators, scientists, and researchers who wish to explore using OpenSim for their work, and who need the power and control of their projects that a campus provides them. The 2011-2012 awardees, in alphabetical order: The Abyss Observatory The Abyss Observatory is a museum of earth science, undersea technology and also Sense of Wonder for the mysteries of Earth & Life in 3D virtual world, established mainly by Japan and US volunteers, supported by SciLands, NOAA, JAMSTEC, Open University UK and Science Circle. The Honor Engine
29 thèmes pour personnaliser Google Chrome 3.0 01net le 05/08/09 à 11h55 Mise à jour (19h45) : Google a mis en ligne une nouvelle version de la Bêta, Chrome 3.0.195.4. Le navigateur de Google peut enfin être relooké. Certes, il ne s'agit que de cosmétique, mais tout navigateur digne de ce nom se doit aujourd'hui de proposer ces options. La v3 en bêta stable depuis le 23 juillet L'offre de Google est bien plus modeste pour le moment. Depuis le 23 juillet dernier, Google propose le téléchargement de cette version en bêta, estimant que le logiciel est suffisamment stable.