Virtual Reality Room: Call for Virtual Worlds pictures (other than SL)

[Sabine Reljic]

Greetings,

In preparation for the AERA conference in 2010, the ARVEL team is creating a virtual reality room on the ARVEL plot in SL ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/CAVE/11/242/42). The VRR's purpose is to help visualize virtual worlds other than Second Life and introduce other virtual worlds than SL for research and teaching. The VRR is a panocube (created by Stephane Desnault), providing an optical illusion which offers an sense of immersion to visitors. Imagine a cube in which you are hovering in the center. The view you would get from being there should be the same as the location of your hovering avatar in ActiveWorlds/WoW/OpenSim/Moondus/Cobalt/Metaplace/etc.

To create scenes from these other worlds (OpenSim, 3DXplorer, DigitalSpaces, ...), i need 6 pictures for each world. The 6 pictures should create a panoramic view of a location (4 sides, 1 sky, 1 ground).
Best format for the virtual room is 1024x1024 JPEG textures, reasonably compressed to about 200kB.

If you have a research project in a VW, please also send me an abstract of the research along your pictures so that the visitors can read up on your research and understand what they are seeing. I will integrate the information in a kiosk in the scene.

Send everything to [hidden email]

The VRR and the posted research done in diverse virtual worlds will be presented at AERA 2010,

Thank you for making this exhibit a success,

S.

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Blue Mars: SKYlawless
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Social Presence in Virtual Worlds: http://www.rezed.org/group/socialpresenceinvirtualworlds
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[Miller, Peter]

Some javascript/style in this post has been disabled (why?)

Possibly worth mentioning that the VRR is (or at least was) free for educational use. NMC used to distribute but you had to notify the vendor to deploy. Anyone know is that still happens? I collected some resources together a while back:

 

http://sites.google.com/site/muve4edu/panoramas

 

Peter

 

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Sent: 29 October 2009 16:09
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Subject: [SLED] Virtual Reality Room: Call for Virtual Worlds pictures (other than SL)

 

Greetings,

In preparation for the AERA conference in 2010, the ARVEL team is creating a virtual reality room on the ARVEL plot in SL ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/CAVE/11/242/42). The VRR's purpose is to help visualize virtual worlds other than Second Life and introduce other virtual worlds than SL for research and teaching. The VRR is a panocube (created by Stephane Desnault), providing an optical illusion which offers an sense of immersion to visitors. Imagine a cube in which you are hovering in the center. The view you would get from being there should be the same as the location of your hovering avatar in ActiveWorlds/WoW/OpenSim/Moondus/Cobalt/Metaplace/etc.

To create scenes from these other worlds (OpenSim, 3DXplorer, DigitalSpaces, ...), i need 6 pictures for each world. The 6 pictures should create a panoramic view of a location (4 sides, 1 sky, 1 ground).
Best format for the virtual room is 1024x1024 JPEG textures, reasonably compressed to about 200kB.

If you have a research project in a VW, please also send me an abstract of the research along your pictures so that the visitors can read up on your research and understand what they are seeing. I will integrate the information in a kiosk in the scene.

Send everything to [hidden email]

The VRR and the posted research done in diverse virtual worlds will be presented at AERA 2010,

Thank you for making this exhibit a success,

S.

***
Sabine K. Y. Lawless-Reljic
Skype: Sabine Reljic
Second Life, 3DXplorer, OpenSim, SmallWorlds: Willow Shenlin
Blue Mars: SKYlawless
***
Doctoral Candidate: San Diego State University-University of San Diego
Social Presence in Virtual Worlds: http://www.rezed.org/group/socialpresenceinvirtualworlds
"If an interesting monster can't have an interesting hairdo, I don't know what this world is coming to."  --Bugs Bunny 
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Communication liaison for ARVEL (Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning)
ARVEL SIG: http://arvelsig.ning.com/
ARVEL in Virtual Worlds: SL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/CAVE/12/241/42/, more locations to come (OpenSim: [...])
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[Miller, Peter]

Some javascript/style in this post has been disabled (why?)

The vendor on NMC Learning (as per the wiki) still works so I assume the answer is "yes".

 

Peter

 

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From: [hidden email] [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Miller, Peter [[hidden email]]
Sent: 29 October 2009 17:32
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Subject: Re: [SLED] Virtual Reality Room: Call for Virtual Worlds pictures (other than SL)

Possibly worth mentioning that the VRR is (or at least was) free for educational use. NMC used to distribute but you had to notify the vendor to deploy. Anyone know is that still happens? I collected some resources together a while back:

 

http://sites.google.com/site/muve4edu/panoramas

 

Peter

 

From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Sabine Reljic
Sent: 29 October 2009 16:09
To: SL Educators (The SLED List); Second Life Research Listserv
Subject: [SLED] Virtual Reality Room: Call for Virtual Worlds pictures (other than SL)

 

Greetings,

In preparation for the AERA conference in 2010, the ARVEL team is creating a virtual reality room on the ARVEL plot in SL ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/CAVE/11/242/42). The VRR's purpose is to help visualize virtual worlds other than Second Life and introduce other virtual worlds than SL for research and teaching. The VRR is a panocube (created by Stephane Desnault), providing an optical illusion which offers an sense of immersion to visitors. Imagine a cube in which you are hovering in the center. The view you would get from being there should be the same as the location of your hovering avatar in ActiveWorlds/WoW/OpenSim/Moondus/Cobalt/Metaplace/etc.

To create scenes from these other worlds (OpenSim, 3DXplorer, DigitalSpaces, ...), i need 6 pictures for each world. The 6 pictures should create a panoramic view of a location (4 sides, 1 sky, 1 ground).
Best format for the virtual room is 1024x1024 JPEG textures, reasonably compressed to about 200kB.

If you have a research project in a VW, please also send me an abstract of the research along your pictures so that the visitors can read up on your research and understand what they are seeing. I will integrate the information in a kiosk in the scene.

Send everything to [hidden email]

The VRR and the posted research done in diverse virtual worlds will be presented at AERA 2010,

Thank you for making this exhibit a success,

S.

***
Sabine K. Y. Lawless-Reljic
Skype: Sabine Reljic
Second Life, 3DXplorer, OpenSim, SmallWorlds: Willow Shenlin
Blue Mars: SKYlawless
***
Doctoral Candidate: San Diego State University-University of San Diego
Social Presence in Virtual Worlds: http://www.rezed.org/group/socialpresenceinvirtualworlds
"If an interesting monster can't have an interesting hairdo, I don't know what this world is coming to."  --Bugs Bunny 
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Communication liaison for ARVEL (Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning)
ARVEL SIG: http://arvelsig.ning.com/
ARVEL in Virtual Worlds: SL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/CAVE/12/241/42/, more locations to come (OpenSim: [...])
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[Sabine Reljic]

yes. The VRR created by Stephane Zugzwang (RL: Stephane Desnault) is free for educational use. Only need to contact him and identify your use and provide the name of the sim.
This is mentioned in one of the notecards you receive with the VRR package that you can copy from NMC. As is, you can't modify the room.

Thank you for your link Peter.
Here are a few other holodecks and VR rooms you can add to your Presenters sections:

• The Holodeck by Loki Clifton
• Horizons by Cheshyr Pontchartrain
• HyperCube by Domneth Dingson -D-VTech
• Super Sofa by LayZeeBones
• Holodeck by Soulmates Creations
• Paradise Blanket by OctoberWerks
• HoloRez by HoloRez Rang
• Skyboxer by Ethereal Fremont
• Primitizer by Revolution Parenti
• The Titan by Jack Hathor
• Room Switch by Loki Ball
• The Green Wonder by Tina Freund
• Holodeck by Professor Eisenberg (Panocube)
• The Virtual Reality Room by Stephane Zugzwang (Panocube)
• Krull’s VR Room System
• Mobius Box by Fox Absolute
• DRUID Holodeck by Darwin Recreant and Ui Beam
• The Ultimate Virtual Reality Holodeck by Vander Reich & RichSz Rexen(Panocube) R&R-VR-HOLODECK-INSTRUCTIONS
• SkyBox Lab HoloDeck SkyMaps by ThoseGuys Footmen
• AWESOME BALLS 3D Environments – HoloDecks & SkyMaps

The virtual reality room shop has beautiful scenes to preview (Loire Castles, streets of Paris...)
For those not familiar with these spaces: a holodeck allows you to save different forms of content (from scenes with pictures to fully furnished environments) which you can pack and move whenever you want. A VR room creates a background by creating the illusion of distant 3d surroundings (a sphere does the same using a sphere instead of a cube)

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