Comments on: A brief survey of emerging uses for OpenSim http://justincc.org/blog/2008/07/18/a-brief-survey-of-emerging-uses-for-opensim/ Justin Clark-Casey's personal website Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:48:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Educators - what would you most like to see in OpenSim? | justincc.org http://justincc.org/blog/2008/07/18/a-brief-survey-of-emerging-uses-for-opensim/comment-page-1/#comment-4290 Educators - what would you most like to see in OpenSim? | justincc.org Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:25:11 +0000 http://justincc.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-4290 [...] Nonetheless, I’m always fascinated to hear of how people are experimenting with OpenSim and other virtual environments, with an eye to using them to achieve their goals.  For instance, it was great yesterday to read Paul Sweeney’s report on a lessons-learned meeting for UK-funded virtual-world education projects, a meeting at which OpenSim was mentioned quite a few times.  Among other things, this adds to the discussions of emerging educational VE uses in last month’s UK Virtual World Watch report and to the earlier activites in this space. [...] [...] Nonetheless, I’m always fascinated to hear of how people are experimenting with OpenSim and other virtual environments, with an eye to using them to achieve their goals.  For instance, it was great yesterday to read Paul Sweeney’s report on a lessons-learned meeting for UK-funded virtual-world education projects, a meeting at which OpenSim was mentioned quite a few times.  Among other things, this adds to the discussions of emerging educational VE uses in last month’s UK Virtual World Watch report and to the earlier activites in this space. [...]

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]]> By: The democratization of virtuality « justincc’s opensim blog http://justincc.org/blog/2008/07/18/a-brief-survey-of-emerging-uses-for-opensim/comment-page-1/#comment-59 The democratization of virtuality « justincc’s opensim blog Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:08:35 +0000 http://justincc.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-59 [...] build virtual environment infrastructure with a potentially immense number of uses.  As I’ve blogged before, these range from embedded and standalone applications, such as IBM’s IM embedded 3D spaces [...] [...] build virtual environment infrastructure with a potentially immense number of uses.  As I’ve blogged before, these range from embedded and standalone applications, such as IBM’s IM embedded 3D spaces [...]

]]> By: James Corbett http://justincc.org/blog/2008/07/18/a-brief-survey-of-emerging-uses-for-opensim/comment-page-1/#comment-58 James Corbett Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:28:23 +0000 http://justincc.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-58 Dependent of funding we're also looking into the possibility of building a virtual retirement village in Opensim as part of a project focused on using telepresence and virtual-presence to alleviate loneliness among the marginalized elderly in our society (in Ireland). Dependent of funding we’re also looking into the possibility of building a virtual retirement village in Opensim as part of a project focused on using telepresence and virtual-presence to alleviate loneliness among the marginalized elderly in our society (in Ireland).

]]> By: justincc http://justincc.org/blog/2008/07/18/a-brief-survey-of-emerging-uses-for-opensim/comment-page-1/#comment-57 justincc Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:00:00 +0000 http://justincc.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-57 @ Mr Nicoll Underfunded and no time allocation - tell me about it :-) Best of luck with getting funding - I look forward to hearing about your experiences if you blog about them. @ Ai Austin Ah, I thought you were doing some work in this area (from your OpenSim mailing list posts) but I didn't know the links. Interesting stuff - that gives some context to the technical discussions. @ dave cormier Thanks for the compliment :-) There is quite a lot of experimental stuff going on out there - I think the non-grid applications are particularly interesting since it's an area where OpenSim can provide things (such as security and extensibility) that a server on the Linden Labs grid cannot. I'll pass on your e-mail address to Mr Nicholl. Justin. @ Mr Nicoll

Underfunded and no time allocation - tell me about it :-) Best of luck with getting funding - I look forward to hearing about your experiences if you blog about them.

@ Ai Austin

Ah, I thought you were doing some work in this area (from your OpenSim mailing list posts) but I didn’t know the links. Interesting stuff - that gives some context to the technical discussions.

@ dave cormier

Thanks for the compliment :-) There is quite a lot of experimental stuff going on out there - I think the non-grid applications are particularly interesting since it’s an area where OpenSim can provide things (such as security and extensibility) that a server on the Linden Labs grid cannot.

I’ll pass on your e-mail address to Mr Nicholl.

Justin.

]]> By: dave cormier http://justincc.org/blog/2008/07/18/a-brief-survey-of-emerging-uses-for-opensim/comment-page-1/#comment-53 dave cormier Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:43:46 +0000 http://justincc.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-53 @ Mr. Nichol, Would love to have a chat with you about what you're doing. There are a few possibilities out there... cheers, dave. ps. justin... if you would email Mr. Nichols my email address i would be forever grateful. @ Mr. Nichol,

Would love to have a chat with you about what you’re doing. There are a few possibilities out there…

cheers,

dave.

ps. justin… if you would email Mr. Nichols my email address i would be forever grateful.

]]> By: dave cormier http://justincc.org/blog/2008/07/18/a-brief-survey-of-emerging-uses-for-opensim/comment-page-1/#comment-54 dave cormier Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:34:59 +0000 http://justincc.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-54 Hey Justin, That Particular blog post (referenced to my blog above) was actually related to the livingarchives project and the later opensim posts on my blog are openhabitat. I went to opensim with L.A. after getting 'mixed messages' from LL regarding my ability to get a private, safe island for our PEI 7th and 8th graders. Opensim has been a fantastic experience, and I really only turned to it last year when Ian Truelove mentioned it as an option, so we used it for LA and it's inclusion in openhabitat was a no brainer considering the advantages of having control over your own server. great write up Hey Justin,

That Particular blog post (referenced to my blog above) was actually related to the livingarchives project and the later opensim posts on my blog are openhabitat. I went to opensim with L.A. after getting ‘mixed messages’ from LL regarding my ability to get a private, safe island for our PEI 7th and 8th graders.

Opensim has been a fantastic experience, and I really only turned to it last year when Ian Truelove mentioned it as an option, so we used it for LA and it’s inclusion in openhabitat was a no brainer considering the advantages of having control over your own server.

great write up

]]> By: Ai Austin http://justincc.org/blog/2008/07/18/a-brief-survey-of-emerging-uses-for-opensim/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Ai Austin Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:19:10 +0000 http://justincc.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-55 As part of the "Virtual University of Edinburgh" (Vue) - http://vue.ed.ac.uk/ - we have Second Life regions and an experimental Opensim-based set of regions called "Open Vue" - http://vue.ed.ac.uk/openvue/ You can see some images and the map of the regions fed live from our servers at the above URL. Current use is mainly for research on collaboration centres for emerhency response - and the I-Room - room for intelligent interaction - see http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/i-room/ A number of regions have been set up for experiments in the School of Informatics and in the School of Education to date. As part of the “Virtual University of Edinburgh” (Vue) - http://vue.ed.ac.uk/ - we have Second Life regions and an experimental Opensim-based set of regions called “Open Vue” - http://vue.ed.ac.uk/openvue/

You can see some images and the map of the regions fed live from our servers at the above URL. Current use is mainly for research on collaboration centres for emerhency response - and the I-Room - room for intelligent interaction - see http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/i-room/

A number of regions have been set up for experiments in the School of Informatics and in the School of Education to date.

]]> By: J Ross Nicoll http://justincc.org/blog/2008/07/18/a-brief-survey-of-emerging-uses-for-opensim/comment-page-1/#comment-56 J Ross Nicoll Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:24:36 +0000 http://justincc.wordpress.com/?p=70#comment-56 You might be interested to know there's a small group of us at the University of St Andrews trying to bring up an OpenSim service for UK educational use. We're unfunded and have no time allocation, so it's currently on a £500 pound "server" sitting under my desk, and gets worked on when I have free time, but we're hoping to actually get some funding later in the year. You might be interested to know there’s a small group of us at the University of St Andrews trying to bring up an OpenSim service for UK educational use. We’re unfunded and have no time allocation, so it’s currently on a £500 pound “server” sitting under my desk, and gets worked on when I have free time, but we’re hoping to actually get some funding later in the year.

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