OpenSimulator Community Conference 2020 – December 5 – 6, 2020
The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the developer and user community creating the OpenSimulator software. Organized by AvaCon, the virtual conference features presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and community social events and tours across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base.
More info at https://conference.opensimulator.org/2020 and to register, go to https://conference.opensimulator.org/2020/register/
Community social events can be scheduled on dates leading up to the conference on Saturday 5-dec-19, and after 6PM PDT on Sunday 6-dec-20, or any time in the days following. Submit your community event for us to add to this conference schedule.
Events taking place Saturday, December 5, and Sunday, December 6 will be live simulcast streamed to: https://www.youtube.com/c/AvaconOrg/live
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04dec11:00 am12:00 pmMusic by Cherylann Hawk11:00 am - 12:00 pm Music region
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Cherylann’s songs of love & introspection are a heavenly blend of alternative pop, folk, country, jazz, reggae, indigenous rhythms, and children’s music.
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Cherylann’s songs of love & introspection are a heavenly blend of alternative pop, folk, country, jazz, reggae, indigenous rhythms, and children’s music.
04dec12:00 pm1:00 pmDJ Kathryn Yer with 80s and the Best of the Rest12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Music region
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Kathryn Yer
DJ
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For one hour Kathryn will be spinning 80 hits at the OSCC Music Stage.
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For one hour Kathryn will be spinning 80 hits at the OSCC Music Stage.
04dec1:00 pm2:00 pmSinger/Songwriter/Guitarist Wolfie Starfire1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Music region
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Wolfie Starfire
Wolfie Starfire
Musician
Wolfie, singer, performer, brings to her stage an endless repertoire of songs. This nightingale songstress will charm the hearts of all, with not only her many years of performance experience, her awards, but a sweet unique voice of excellent sound and tone. This vocal diva, winner of Second Life's Got Talent 2017, will bring in that endless selection from jazz, blues, contemporary, pop, country, Broadway, and even performs acoustic sets. Be ready to be impressed. A must hear performer! You too will understand why she continues to be a favorite among so many. "Music is the best way to express my heart to you:" - Wolfie Starfire
Musician
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Wolfie, singer, performer, brings to her stage an endless repertoire of songs. This nightingale songstress will charm the hearts of all, with not only her many years of
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Wolfie, singer, performer, brings to her stage an endless repertoire of songs. This nightingale songstress will charm the hearts of all, with not only her many years of performance experience, her awards, but a sweet unique voice of excellent sound and tone.
04dec2:00 pm2:30 pmOpening of the new OSCC Surreal Museum2:00 pm - 2:30 pm OSCC Surreal Museum
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Kisma Reidling / Juliette SurrealDreaming
Kisma Reidling / Juliette SurrealDreaming
Kisma is a visionary mixed media artist living in Newport Beach, California. She was Co-curator for 1Biennale 2018, which made it to the first global showing of Immersive Art in Opensimulator.
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Reiner Schneeberger / Art Blue
Reiner Schneeberger / Art Blue
I once worked in supercomputing at Control Data as Head of Consulting dreaming with Seymour Cray to catch the movements of the stars. Now I dream of an Actual Virtual Reality for the Arts where everyone can become part of it. I am an artist, curator and writer and I have a degree in simulation, that’s why Art Blue listens to the owl-AI, which is my excuse if things go wrong.
04dec3:30 pm4:30 pmOpenSimulator Educator Meet-Up and Swap Meet3:30 pm - 4:30 pm OSCC Expo Zone 3
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Kay McLennan
Kay McLennan
Kay McLennan is a Professor of Practice at the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement. Kay created the Tulane SoPA Metaverse and has been creating and using virtual world learning simulations in her online economics, business studies, and online pedagogy courses since 2008. Kay uses student feedback to continually refine and expand the educational simulations she creates to use in her e-courses. She has written about her creation and use of OpenSimulator-based learning simulations – see "Interactivity, Engagement, and Increased Learning Outcomes in 3D Virtual World Educational Simulations" (@ http://www.editlib.org/p/40849), “Prisoners’ Dilemma” simulation use case example (@ https://sites.google.com/site/fvwc12mclennan), and “Data Detectives Game” simulation use case example (@ https://sites.google.com/site/fvc13mclennan). Also, the video clips from the December 2018 “Mainstreaming Virtual World Learning Colloquium” event – organized by Kay -- can be viewed @ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLctERt0Fl50gLOgYPdfHDE8NcPtuO4wb0
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Newbie educators as well as seasoned OpenSimulator educators are welcome — to swap experiences creating and using the OpenSimulator platform for learning simulations. Also, if relevant, seasoned OpenSimulator
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Newbie educators as well as seasoned OpenSimulator educators are welcome — to swap experiences creating and using the OpenSimulator platform for learning simulations. Also, if relevant, seasoned OpenSimulator educators are encouraged to bring along any tutorial materials and/or teaching content you want to share with the group.
OSCC Expo Zone 3
http://opensimulator.org:8002/OSCC20Expo20Zone203/75/59/26
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Crista Lopes
Crista Lopes
University of California Irvine, Professor & OpenSimulator Core Developer
Crista Lopes (Diva Canto) is a professor within the Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California Irvine (https://www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/) and a core OpenSimulator developer.
University of California Irvine, Professor & OpenSimulator Core Developer
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Cynthia Calongne / Lyr Lobo
Cynthia Calongne / Lyr Lobo
OSCC Co-Chair, Professor
Dr. Cynthia Calongne, aka Lyr Lobo, is a Professor at Colorado Technical University and CCCOnline. She taught 52 university classes held in virtual worlds and conducts virtual world research at Virtual Harmony. As a software engineer, she worked with Air Force Space Command and with the U.S. Space Foundation during the Space Shuttle Challenger crash. A pioneer for 3D immersive education and games for change, she received the Thinkerer award at the 2017 Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education, and her team won the $25,000 Grand Prize in the Federal Virtual World Challenge for their space simulation the Mars Expedition Strategy Challenge. Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/presentations
OSCC Co-Chair, Professor
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Joyce Bettencourt / Rhiannon Chatnoir
Joyce Bettencourt / Rhiannon Chatnoir
AvaCon, Inc., Co-Founder
Joyce Bettencourt is co-founder and Vice President of AvaCon, Inc.(https://avacon.org), a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to promoting the growth, enhancement, and development of the metaverse, virtual worlds, augmented reality and 3D immersive spaces. AvaCon were organizers of 2010 in Boston & 2011 in Oakland Second Life Community Convention, the Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds virtual workshops, and the ongoing OpenSimulator Community Conference. AvaCon also currently fiscally sponsors the nonprofit community of practice, Nonprofit Commons in Second Life, where Joyce has been a community leader and host of weekly Friday meetings. In addition, she is Creative Director of The Vesuvius Group (http://thevesuviusgroup.com), a collaborative studio specializing in developing online immersive and social environments for community-building. Joyce is a 2012 graduate of the Singularity University Graduate Studies program, focused on applying exponential technologies to addressing Global Grand Challenges. Previously she was digital media producer for the Online Leadership Program at the educational nonprofit Global Kids and helped produce digital media learning content including the Second Life Curriculum, many virtual and physical world events, and the social issue game CONSENT! As her avatar Rhiannon Chatnoir, she has organized numerous social good online events, including the Virtual Haiti Relief campaign within the virtual world of Second Life that helped raise awareness and $10,000 USD in virtual micro transactions. http://about.me/joycebettencourt
AvaCon, Inc., Co-Founder
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Kevin Cozens / Andrew Hellershanks
Kevin Cozens / Andrew Hellershanks
OpenSimulator Core Developer
Kevin has been coding for open-source projects since 1992 including being a member of the OpenSimulator Core Developer team since March of 2014, and created, or maintains several add-on modules including the OpenSimSearch (https://github.com/kcozens/OpenSimSearch), OpenSimProfile (https://github.com/kcozens/OpenSimProfile), and OpenSimMutelist (https://github.com/kcozens/OpenSimMutelist) modules which are used with the Open Simulator project. You can also find him reporting bugs, bug triaging, updating the OpenImulator project wiki pages, and helping users via IRC or the mailing list. Kevin also runs the OpenSimulator developer meetings held weekly in OSgrid (http://www.osgrid.org/). You can view his code contributions: https://www.openhub.net/accounts/kcozens or support him by becoming a Patreon donor to the work he does on open-source code projects: https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens
OpenSimulator Core Developer
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Melanie Milland
Melanie Milland
OpenSimulator Core Developer
As an OpenSimulator Core Developer, Melanie has been one of the most active contributors to virtual world software in general, and OpenSimulator in particular. As her avatar "Melanie Milland", she was a long-time Second Life™ resident and gained much experience in using virtual worlds. Melanie has been involved in a number of virtual world projects including creating, with a team of up to 12 developers, her own "spin" of the OpenSimulator software which powered the Avination Grid. Much of the grid's code, when shared back to the core code, was the base for many of the new OpenSimulator 0.9 update features. You can view her code contributions to OpenSimulator here: http://opensimulator.org/viewgit/?a=search&p=opensim&h=HEAD&st=author&s=Melanie%20Thielker
URL http://opensimulator.org/viewgit/?a=search&p=opensim&h=HEAD&st=author&s=Melanie%20Thielker
OpenSimulator Core Developer
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Robert Adams / Misterblue Waves
Robert Adams / Misterblue Waves
OpenSimulator Core Developer, BulletSim
Robert Adams has been an OpenSimulator core developer for many years. His OpenSimulator work includes the BulletSim physics engine, the DSG (distributed scene graph) simulator experiment, and many performance improvements. Outside OpenSimulator, he has been a computer developer and researcher for 40 years. He has a current interest in distributed simulation and robotics.
OpenSimulator Core Developer, BulletSim
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Ubit Umarov
Ubit Umarov
OpenSimulator Core Developer
Ubit is currently a lead Core Developer for OpenSimulator who has been working on the project since 2012. He was instrumental in coding and implementing into the OpenSimulator codebase many of the updates that were part of the OpenSimulator 0.9 update and developing many of the OpenSimulator 0.9.1 and upcoming releases. View his code contributions online: http://opensimulator.org/viewgit/?a=search&p=opensim&h=HEAD&st=author&s=UbitUmarov and please support this key developer by donating to him directly: https://www.paypal.me/UbitUmarov
URL http://opensimulator.org/viewgit/?a=search&p=opensim&h=HEAD&st=author&s=UbitUmarov
OpenSimulator Core Developer
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Welcome to the 8th annual OpenSimulator Community Conference. This year’s event features presenters across the globe who will be highlighting the user projects and core development work of the
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Welcome to the 8th annual OpenSimulator Community Conference. This year’s event features presenters across the globe who will be highlighting the user projects and core development work of the OpenSimulator platform. We will kick off #OSCC20 with an overview of the latest features in the OpenSimulator software update and conversation with Core Developers of the platform.
Find out where the platform is headed and learn more about the developers who make the software happen!
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05dec7:30 am8:00 amFeaturedWE ARE GOING TO AMERIKA7:30 am - 8:00 am Keynote Auditorium
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Kisma Reidling / Juliette SurrealDreaming
Kisma Reidling / Juliette SurrealDreaming
Kisma is a visionary mixed media artist living in Newport Beach, California. She was Co-curator for 1Biennale 2018, which made it to the first global showing of Immersive Art in Opensimulator.
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Reiner Schneeberger / Art Blue
Reiner Schneeberger / Art Blue
I once worked in supercomputing at Control Data as Head of Consulting dreaming with Seymour Cray to catch the movements of the stars. Now I dream of an Actual Virtual Reality for the Arts where everyone can become part of it. I am an artist, curator and writer and I have a degree in simulation, that’s why Art Blue listens to the owl-AI, which is my excuse if things go wrong.
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We are going to Amerika. This was the call many of our ancestors followed and it is again to become the call. Let us give this call a
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We are going to Amerika. This was the call many of our ancestors followed and it is again to become the call. Let us give this call a voice. [You will hear, “We all living in Amerika. Amerika ist wunderbar.” ….] You heard Rammstein is singing: Amerika ist wunderbar. America is wonderful. We have this kind of a wonderful America for you. It is called AMERIKA.ART — Amerika Art is the new format for an immersive art show. It happens in virtual and in the real place, the village Amerika, Germany. Let us look at this place in the way Google calls Actual Reality. Then the concept of the immersive Art challenge will be outlined. It leads to a new term for the arts: Actual Virtual Reality and to a come together at the AVRDays 2022. The call for AMERIKA.ART starts in January 2021 and the presentation, the Grand Opening, will happen in May and June 2022.
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James Neville / Sitearm Madonna
James Neville / Sitearm Madonna
James G Neville (Sitearm) is Owner at Online Media Service of Development One LLC. Online Presence. Consultant and practitioner in applied online collaboration, virtual reality, and social media.
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“Hybrid Tech” means combining tools in optimal ways by playing to their strengths and mediating to their weaknesses, relative to the use at hand. In this session hybrid
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“Hybrid Tech” means combining tools in optimal ways by playing to their strengths and mediating to their weaknesses, relative to the use at hand. In this session hybrid tech will be demonstrated via presenter narrative and audience participation using laptop and mobile devices to access Augmented Reality, Web 2.0, and Web3D applications and environments, all from within the OpenSimulator environment.
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Isabel Valverde / Butler2 Evelyn
Isabel Valverde / Butler2 Evelyn
Isabel Valverde is a transdisciplinary artist researcher from Portugal. Starts experimental solo and co-creative collaborative performance art-dance work since 1986. PhD in Dance Theory and History (UCR, 2004), MA in Interdisciplinary Arts (IAC/SFSU), New Dance (SNDD/AHK) and Dance (FMH/UTL). Isabel’s doctoral thesis, Interfacing Dance and Technology: a theoretical framework for performance in the digital domain, has been translated to Portuguese and published by FCG/FCT (2010). Her postdoctoral research on Dances and Technologies engaged somatic based performance within hybrid embodied interactions and the continuum of actualization and virtualization, at the CAT/IHSIS, Centre for Arts and Technologies/Institute for Human Studies and Intelligent Sciences, and VIMMI/INESC-ID (Visualization and Intelligent MultiModal Interfaces Group). Associate researcher at GAIPS/INESC-ID (Intelligent Agents and Synthetic Characters’ Group) and CIAC/UAberta, continues cross-disciplinary practice based artistic research on Somatic-Technological Dance through co-creative collaborations on mixed-reality corporealities participatory environments and cultures, including virtual and physical characters (avatars and robots NAO and Baxter) and multitude of interfaces with Metaverse platforms. Senses Places (w/ Todd Cochrane, Ana Moura, Liz Solo, Yukihiko Yoshida, SaveMe Oh, Isaura Seppi, etal.), Blind Date (w/ Yiannis Melanitis). Lecturer and facilitator of workshops on soma-tech dances and CI. Co-founder of Posthuman Corporealities - Network Encounter and T.A.L..
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Kae Ishimoto
Kae Ishimoto
Kae Ishimoto started her dance career in 2002, working with choreographer Akiko Kitamura, then became a member of Co. Un Yamada. She has worked with many international artists such as Yuri Ng (Hong Kong), dreamthinkspeak (UK), Amareya Theater (Poland) and Japanese companies such as Pappa tarahumara and Toshiki Okada of Chelfitsch. She began her Butoh dance career under Yukio Waguri and has worked with Natsu Nakajima, Yoshito Ohno, Moe Yamamoto and Minako Seki, among others. In 2011, she performed a solo Butoh dance “Transformation Girl” using the Hijikata method of butoh, in 8 countries in Asia and Europe. Through these diverse performing opportunities, she is attempting to construct an original, genre-less expression that synthesizes various elements and traditions of dance. She and her company Wangnin Bunmei were invited to 21 countries in Asia, Europe and US. As the director of “Perspectives On Hijikata Research Collective (POHRC)”, with Rosa van Hensbergen, she has organized intensive workshops and events in Japan and UK for 7 years, and has been invited as a Butoh teacher to 13 countries such as Hong Kong, Bali and Mexico. Since 2020, she is the current director of Tatsumi Hijikata Archive in Keio University Art Center.
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Todd Cochrane / Toddles Lightworker
Todd Cochrane / Toddles Lightworker
Dr Todd Cochrane is an educator in Information Technology and a software developer for science and art research. He discovers new opportunities, seeds projects, and develops at the leading edge of technology for education. An honours level programmer with a PhD in Education Technology (University of Canterbury, NZ, 2019), he is constantly curious and developing various systems to understand how to transfer technology to learners. Todd facilitates the transfer of technological skills and develops educational opportunities. He is an experienced leader and participant in several technical educational initiatives, teaching, and writing course prescriptions, and managed commercial projects, defined terms of reference, information technology consulting and software development. He is expert in the application of virtual worlds in education and vocational training. Todd is at the forefront of this field developing protocols and building interfaces to create useful 3D environments for vocational training environments. Through educational design-based research has developed a methodological model for building 3D Multiuser Virtual Environments (MUVE), expressed in virtual worlds, for use in classroom-based Interventions in vocational education. This emerging field is important because it allows a safe, simulated, environment to use all learners’ senses to enhance their education experience. Senior Lecturer in Digital Technology, NMIT.
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In this year of celebration of the 10th anniversary of Senses Places, we propose a mixed format panel with main collaborators. focusing on the key aspects/situations developed throughout
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In this year of celebration of the 10th anniversary of Senses Places, we propose a mixed format panel with main collaborators. focusing on the key aspects/situations developed throughout experimental and experiential research in several artistic, technological and academic on Second Live and Metaverse events and publications. But we will be primarily performing together engaging with animations and person-avatar dance interfacing developed and shared with a suggested score to connect with it all.
05dec9:00 am9:30 amBreakEXPO ZONE TOUR TIME9:00 am - 9:30 am
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are located in OSCC Expo Zone 3 and there are extensive Hypergrid resources and links to many HyperGrid enabled OpenSimulator grids to explore.
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Graham Mills
Graham Mills
Graham Mills is a retired university academic with an amateur interest in the history of Liverpool. He uses OpenSim as an aid to better understanding issues of place and scale in historical contexts
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The presentation looks at the history of swimming places in and along the River Mersey in the north-west of England. It shows how they developed from humble horse-drawn
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The presentation looks at the history of swimming places in and along the River Mersey in the north-west of England. It shows how they developed from humble horse-drawn bathing machines via an innovative floating pool moored mid-river to what was the largest aquatic stadium in the world in its time. Swimming pools frequently occupy a cherished place in personal and shared memories and this suggests possible applications for virtual recreations.
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Ann Nowak
Ann Nowak
Ann is a language teacher at university and secondary school in Germany, she has got an M.A. in linguistics. She is an expert in Blended & Hybrid Learning. Ann's work in SL, Open Sim and VR includes teacher training, moderating and presenting at conferences. She has worked on various projects for education in VW's. Ann's tasks in VWs include developping syllabi, teaching English, Spanish, German and methodology, making machinima and creating interactive scenes for education (history, anthropology, story telling and languages) at virtual museums and schools.
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John Mela
John Mela
Professional developer since 1981. Developing in virtual worlds since 2007, currently focussed entirely on RezMela platform on OpenSim.
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Kevin Cozens / Andrew Hellershanks
Kevin Cozens / Andrew Hellershanks
OpenSimulator Core Developer
Kevin has been coding for open-source projects since 1992 including being a member of the OpenSimulator Core Developer team since March of 2014, and created, or maintains several add-on modules including the OpenSimSearch (https://github.com/kcozens/OpenSimSearch), OpenSimProfile (https://github.com/kcozens/OpenSimProfile), and OpenSimMutelist (https://github.com/kcozens/OpenSimMutelist) modules which are used with the Open Simulator project. You can also find him reporting bugs, bug triaging, updating the OpenImulator project wiki pages, and helping users via IRC or the mailing list. Kevin also runs the OpenSimulator developer meetings held weekly in OSgrid (http://www.osgrid.org/). You can view his code contributions: https://www.openhub.net/accounts/kcozens or support him by becoming a Patreon donor to the work he does on open-source code projects: https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens
OpenSimulator Core Developer
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Ludovic Lotoah
Ludovic Lotoah
We develop tools and content for opensim. Our tools allow and support creators to build interactive worlds and content in an easy way. Saving the user's creations and bringing production tools in opensim are just a few aspects of RezMela products.
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Ramesh Ramloll
Ramesh Ramloll
CEO/CTU DeepSemaphore LLC
Rameshsharma Ramloll currently leads DeepSemaphore LLC, an E-Learning and Simulation Solutions company.
CEO/CTU DeepSemaphore LLC
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Sue Caxton
Sue Caxton
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Our group has been developing applications for the Opensim virtual world platform for a number of years. We describe our goals, the design approaches that emerged, and our
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Our group has been developing applications for the Opensim virtual world platform for a number of years. We describe our goals, the design approaches that emerged, and our development processes. We share the best of our lessons learned. These stories from the trenches will be useful to individuals who (1) are interested in the behind the scenes aspects of our effort, (2) are looking into starting their own adventure in developing serious virtual world applications or (3) are interested in how we are facilitating virtual learning environments.
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Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov
Author, Editor / Hypergrid Business
Maria Korolov is a published author and covers artificial intelligence for CIO magazine and cybersecurity for CSO online. She is also the editor of Hypergrid Business since 2009. During her twenty years as a journalist, she's run a business news bureau in Shanghai, covered wars in the former Soviet Union, and wrote about local politics for the Chicago Tribune. But none of that prepared her for covering OpenSimulator, which has been both intensely frustrating and infinitely enjoyable.
Author, Editor / Hypergrid Business
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This is a special session for #OSCC20 speakers, crowdfunders, and volunteers to be able to ask questions of several developers of the OpenSimulator platform
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This is a special session for #OSCC20 speakers, crowdfunders, and volunteers to be able to ask questions of several developers of the OpenSimulator platform
05dec11:30 am12:30 pmMeal BreakEXPO ZONE TOUR TIME11:30 am - 12:30 pm
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are located in OSCC Expo Zone 3 and there are extensive Hypergrid resources and links to many HyperGrid enabled OpenSimulator grids to explore.
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Kent Bye
Kent Bye
Voices of VR Podcast host
Since May 2014, Kent Bye has recorded over 1500 Voices of VR podcast interviews featuring the pioneering artists, storytellers, and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual & augmented reality. He's an oral historian, experiential journalist, and aspiring philosopher helping to define the patterns of immersive storytelling, experiential design, ethical frameworks, & the ultimate potential of XR. He's also covered four academic artificial intelligence conferences for his nascent Voices of AI podcast. You can follow his work on Twitter @kentbye.
Voices of VR Podcast host
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Mal Burns
Mal Burns
Metaworld Inworld Review
Mal Burns is host of the "Inworld Review" - a weekly news and discussion program which has been running for over 10 years. He and Tara Yeats run Metaworld Broadcasting to provide input and output services for TV in virtual worlds and the expertise for the same. Mal has used virtual environments for nearly a decade, is concerned about user interfaces in general and has a wealth of media and design experience behind him. In the organic sphere he is now retired and uses his experience to deploy and promote in immersive spaces. He also has a twitter stream (@malburns) provide news links on a daily basis.
Metaworld Inworld Review
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Panel Discussion – moderated by Mal Burns
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Panel Discussion – moderated by Mal Burns
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Becky Adams / Elli Pinion
Becky Adams / Elli Pinion
Dr. Becky Adams recently retired from University of New Mexico after thirteen years as the Director of Online Course Development & Faculty Support. As Director, she facilitated the design and delivery of UNM Online Courses for the Main Campus, ensuring quality day-to-day support for online faculty and students. After teaching K-12, she teaches online and face to face in Higher Education for the College of Education Teacher Education & Human Sciences as well as Organization, Information and Learning Science (OI&LS). She has a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, specializing in Instructional Technologies, and a minor in Educational Administration. She has been a part of the Virtual Worlds in Education community since 2007.
URL https://unm.edu
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Valerie Hill / Valibrarian Gregg
Valerie Hill / Valibrarian Gregg
Dr. Valerie Hill received her MLS from Texas Woman’s University in 2007 and a PhD in Library and Information Science in 2012. Valerie is a library and information science educator with a research focus on the intersection of information literacy and global digital participatory culture. Her research in virtual environments explores metaliteracy in metamodern culture.
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With the sudden need for more virtual environments, everyone is scrambling to investigate alternatives. Open-source virtual worlds provide great opportunities but are best discovered through professional networking. The
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With the sudden need for more virtual environments, everyone is scrambling to investigate alternatives. Open-source virtual worlds provide great opportunities but are best discovered through professional networking. The Community Virtual Library shares a plan for networking across the metaverse.
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Michael Lorrey / Mike Lorrey
Michael Lorrey / Mike Lorrey
Mike Lorrey is a versatile entrepreneur with extensive virtual world, virtual finance, management, and IT experience. He built one of the top 25 virtual reality development companies in Second Life in 2006 with less than $200 in startup capital, reaching a quarter million dollars in annual revenues in less than a year, providing the first virtual stock exchanges, 53 simulator regions full of paying customers, and helping to capitalize dozens of virtual businesses with micro-capitalization in the virtual economy.
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Decentraland is a decentralized virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Within the Decentraland platform, users can create, experience, and monetize their content and applications, accessed by
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Decentraland is a decentralized virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Within the Decentraland platform, users can create, experience, and monetize their content and applications, accessed by common web browsers.
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Kayaker Magic
Kayaker Magic
Kayaker Magic has been a reporter for OpenSim for many years and submitted many bug reports. He gave a presentation at OSCC several years ago about the “Sad Sorry State of Weapons Developent in OpenSim” to bring attention to some bugs. Things are much better now! Kayaker is a prolific writer of LSL scripts for OpenSim and you may have seen some his work all over the Metaverse.
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Open Simulator is an open source project written and maintained by volunteers. But the people writing the code cannot test every facet of this huge project. They depend
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Open Simulator is an open source project written and maintained by volunteers. But the people writing the code cannot test every facet of this huge project. They depend on “reporters” to try everything out, verify when things are fixed and report new issues. Any of us can be reporters but to be effective there are procedures you should go through. Don’t just whine “X doesn’t work! Fix it!” You should go through several steps to submit a good bug report. It is not easy! I’ll go through the steps with some war stores of experiences I have had reporting for OpenSim. I hope to encourage more people to help improve OpenSim by reporting bugs and I hope to show you how to improve the quality of your bug reports.
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05dec3:00 pm3:30 pmBreakEXPO ZONE TOUR TIME3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are located in OSCC Expo Zone 3 and there are extensive Hypergrid resources and links to many HyperGrid enabled OpenSimulator grids to explore.
05dec3:30 pm4:30 pmFeaturedCreativity PanelPanel Discussion3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Keynote Auditorium
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Lisa Laxton
Lisa Laxton
Lisa Laxton is the R&D Visionary and CEO of the OpenSimulator community focused foundation Infinite Metaverse Alliance® (IMA). She is also President of Laxton Consulting LLC with experience providing various virtual world technology solutions for education, research, business, and defense clients. You may have seen her around the HyperGrid busy building content or engaged in testing but she is available via meetings to anyone in the Open Simulator community interested in collaborating to advance virtual worlds technology and/or to improve accessibility.
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Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov
Author, Editor / Hypergrid Business
Maria Korolov is a published author and covers artificial intelligence for CIO magazine and cybersecurity for CSO online. She is also the editor of Hypergrid Business since 2009. During her twenty years as a journalist, she's run a business news bureau in Shanghai, covered wars in the former Soviet Union, and wrote about local politics for the Chicago Tribune. But none of that prepared her for covering OpenSimulator, which has been both intensely frustrating and infinitely enjoyable.
Author, Editor / Hypergrid Business
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Michael Lorrey / Mike Lorrey
Michael Lorrey / Mike Lorrey
Mike Lorrey is a versatile entrepreneur with extensive virtual world, virtual finance, management, and IT experience. He built one of the top 25 virtual reality development companies in Second Life in 2006 with less than $200 in startup capital, reaching a quarter million dollars in annual revenues in less than a year, providing the first virtual stock exchanges, 53 simulator regions full of paying customers, and helping to capitalize dozens of virtual businesses with micro-capitalization in the virtual economy.
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Moderated by Maria Korolov Planned Panelists: Lisa Laxton Mike Lorrey
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Moderated by Maria Korolov
Planned Panelists:
Lisa Laxton
Mike Lorrey
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Scott Dolphin
Scott Dolphin
Scott Dolphin is a graduate with high honors of the SUNY Empire State College Master of Arts in Learning with Emerging Technology program. He is an artist, designer, virtual explorer and researcher in the uses of online virtual reality for education and the development of collaborative communities of practice.
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Faced with evolving pandemic safety classroom protocols and procedures, and the ever present possibility (or probability) of a rapid switch to all online learning, educators across the academic
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Faced with evolving pandemic safety classroom protocols and procedures, and the ever present possibility (or probability) of a rapid switch to all online learning, educators across the academic spectrum are recognizing the need for flexible, adaptable online collaborative technologies that can alleviate the effects of Chronic Video Conferencing Fatigue (CVCF) and restimulate learner engagement. For the past three years the SUNY Empire State College School of Graduate Studies has hosted half-day residency events in Opensim virtual reality as a means to introduce new students to the graduate programs to their peers, the faculty, and a broad range of interactive, immersive, collaborative technologies which they may consider for their individual degree programs. The 2020 residency, held in October, hosted over three times the number of attendees than the previous year from a variety of different degree programs, a clear indication of the increased interdepartmental interest in exploring online interactive immersive technologies. Each successive annual event has incorporated participant feedback from the previous year into the programming development of the following event iteration This slideshow presentation outlines the iterative steps and methodologies involved in the creation of a large, successful, immersive, engaging and informative event in Opensim.
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Eileen O'Connor / Eileen Oconnor
Eileen O'Connor / Eileen Oconnor
Dr. Eileen O’Connor began her professional career as a chemist for government and industry then worked for IBM during the 1980’s. She then moved into technology and science education. She has worked in higher education bringing technology into science education and technology education courses since the late 1990’s. Virtual Reality education has been a focus area within her research and development efforts.
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This presentation will highlight some basic best practices that have emerged over 15 years of bringing higher education students into VR environments. Then, areas where additional support and
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This presentation will highlight some basic best practices that have emerged over 15 years of bringing higher education students into VR environments. Then, areas where additional support and community could help stand-alone educators (with little institutional support) bring open-sim environments to expanded audiences will be raised, seeking to operationalize wiki-like areas of communication that could bridge educators and technologist through important shared concerns. Topics integrate areas such as: professional and child-focused avatar creation, security, IT components, working with IT departments, institutional buy-in, instructional design support, and the like. The plea is to find collective and communal ways to share, develop and leverage a knowledge base that can facilitate conversations at the interstices of the expanding VR environments.
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A Marie Vans / Amvans Lapis
A Marie Vans / Amvans Lapis
Marie Vans is a a senior research scientist at HP Labs in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she is currently working in the AI & Emerging Compute Lab. Marie is focused on developing virtual reality simulations for education, professional training, and product introduction. Marie holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Colorado State University as well as an MLIS from San José State University’s iSchool. She has more than 55 published papers and 35 granted U.S. patents. Marie teaches a course in Design for Teaching & Learning in Social Virtual Reality in SJSU’s iSchool.
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Bethany Winslow / Bethany Winslow
Bethany Winslow / Bethany Winslow
Bethany an Instructional Designer at eCampus at San Jose State University where she supports faculty integrating technology with their teaching and curriculum. I also volunteer with the Community Virtual Library and am a friend of VCARA. Her areas of interest include virtual world building and VR exploration, instructional design, digital citizenship, and all forms of virtual collaboration expanding access to information. She believes that active exploration and world building, done in community, is essential preparation to design or guide others to design effective immersive learning experiences regardless of platform.”
URL https://www.sjsu.edu/ecampus/support/about-us/bethany-winslow/index.html
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The on-boarding experience for Virtual worlds such as OpenSim can be so frustrating for new users that they may never realize the power these environments have for social
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The on-boarding experience for Virtual worlds such as OpenSim can be so frustrating for new users that they may never realize the power these environments have for social learning experiences. We argue that by using a very simple browser-based environment such as Mozilla Hubs or Frames by Virbela, we can demonstrate the potential of immersive learning and collaboration to new users. By progressively showing the increased flexibility in more complex settings that address the shortfalls of the simpler environments, we can convert the frustrated user into an enthusiastic supporter of OpenSim-based worlds. We will present the progression from simple to complex using examples from a SJSU iSchool course and the use of the e-Campus room in Mozilla Hubs as a blueprint for getting people hooked on Virtual Worlds.
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05dec6:00 pm7:00 pmCountry Rock Singer Libertybelle Lyric6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Music region
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Libertybelle Lyric
Libertybelle Lyric
Country singer
I love to sing. I have been singing since I was a child of 8. My influences range from the all time greats in Rock to the best and brightest in country! I love country and Rock as well as blues. So you will hear those influences when you listen to me perform. I've got over 20 years in RL as a performer and now I perform only for my own pleasure in Second Life. And Relay for Life is one of of my Favorite charities. (I am a Cancer survivor) My covers include artist like Janis Joplin, Bonnie Rait, Areatha Frankin, The Eagles, Crystal Gayle, Reba McIntyre, Patsy Cline, Tanya Tucker, Bobby Gentry, Adele, Madonna, Tricia Yearwood, Cam, Gretchin Wilson and many many more.
Country singer
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Libertybelle’s influences range from the all time greats in Rock to the best and brightest in country! She loves country and Rock as well as blues. So you
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Libertybelle’s influences range from the all time greats in Rock to the best and brightest in country! She loves country and Rock as well as blues. So you will hear those influences when you listen to her perform.
05dec7:00 pm8:00 pmSinger Songwriter/Guitarist James Olmos7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Music region
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James Olmos
James Olmos
Singer / Songwriter / Musician
Songwriter & Photographer who finds creative outlets through life's moments. My inspiration and muse, along with my medium often changes as I discover and cross new paths. I take chances with my art and I'm constantly evolving. I'm curious and can't sit still. I get anxious and crave exploration on many levels. My social network posts range from songs I've written, photographs I've captured and blog ramblings about my philosophical thoughts and life's moments. I also enjoy a healthful lifestyle and I'm passionate about obstacle course racing (OCR), mud runs, trail runs and the all-out, kick ass times I have while breathing, living and journeying through life's moments. I'm one of those artists who doesn't need 1,000 listeners; I only need one to listen. I don't need a 1,000 viewers; I only need one to see.
Singer / Songwriter / Musician
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Musical Performance of James Olmos, playing Acoustic Guitar and singing Original Songs.
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Musical Performance of James Olmos, playing Acoustic Guitar and singing Original Songs.
05dec8:00 pm9:00 pmRoad Trip from Wyldwood Bayou8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Music region
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Kith Whitehawk
Kith Whitehawk
Welcome to Wyldwood Bayou, home of the Blues Tribe and Rockin’ the Blues!! We are in the heart of the Louisiana bayou, offering a hangout that is peaceful, drama free and abounds with fun, friends and fabulous Blues!! You’ll hear many genres of blues here including blues rock, electric, old school and contemporary; our awesome DJs will help you fall in love with all of them! We’re open 24/7 playing great blues music radio when not spinning live! Our events run Friday through Monday nights beginning at 6:00 PM PST. We also host the Ravenquest and Isles of Myst Medi/Fantasy roleplay groups. Our goal since our inception is to provide our “Tribe” members and visitors with a fun, safe and entertaining place to party, relax, and make new friends! Rockin’ the Blues was established in Inworldz in 2013 by Kira Whitehawk. Kith and Kira brought us to the Opensim in 2018 when Inworldz closed. Kira left this Earth in January of 2019 but remains in the hearts of her Tribe and the Bayou. Kith and the RTB Staff endeavor to continue Kira’s vision by bringing you the best blues, a safe and inclusive atmosphere where all are welcome to enjoy great blues, build lasting friendships and create memories that will last a lifetime. Let’s all “Keep on playing the blues” (Kira Whitehawk).
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You’ll hear many genres of blues here including blues rock, electric, old school and contemporary!
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You’ll hear many genres of blues here including blues rock, electric, old school and contemporary!
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Jenny BIHOUISE / Cheops Forlife
Jenny BIHOUISE / Cheops Forlife
Building for 12 years in Openim, first for bringing applications for remote training or meeting or various other uses to RL people, then for creating in a collaborative way with RL artists. Previously developing methods about empowerment for welfare organisations.
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Hypergrid address: hg.osgrid.org:i3dim “La Traversée du langage” -in french- is a three-act play written especially for OSGrid. It is not theater to watch from a
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Hypergrid address: hg.osgrid.org:i3dim
“La Traversée du langage” -in french- is a three-act play written especially for OSGrid. It is not theater to watch from a sitting room, but a narrative experience to be lived through your avatar.
The subject is language and its effects on humanity. The text is presented as an interior monologue in which a female voice and a male voice are mixing each other, on the model of the stream of consciousness as in Virginia Woolf or James Joyce, for example. A text that is at the same time philosophical, dreamlike, mythological, even mystical, and woven from multiple references to other works, novels, films, or mythological characters like Ulysses or Oedipus. A text that the scenario of building inworld and the music of the words in audio underline to facilitate the feeling, the emotions …
It is a journey through the three acts in a stage set that always seems the same but whose animations each time different make you feel what the text tells. The first act is called: “The waves. Traversing vibrations ”, it evokes the emergence of life and then of articulated language. The second: “The mirrors. Traversing representations “, evokes the illusions engendered by images and writing. The third: “The clocks. Traversing the Worlds “evokes the folly of imagining the world as a book and books as worlds.
The decor is inspired by a film, L’Année dernière à Marienbad, by filmmaker Alain Resnais, one of the representatives of the late 1950’s French cinema movement called the New Wave.
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About the developers and Opensim users, what we are submitting here is how we were able to use more features than usual for a multimedia immersive art creation:
What we used :
– Audio: For the 3 acts, the voices were recorded with professional equipment then files recorded in mp3 format are placed on the 3 parcels.
Other local sounds are looped or feet touched .wav files in scripted prims – Moap and Youtube script
– Animated poses and script
– Animated Gif
– TP without touch script
– Particules scripts
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Kay McLennan
Kay McLennan
Kay McLennan is a Professor of Practice at the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement. Kay created the Tulane SoPA Metaverse and has been creating and using virtual world learning simulations in her online economics, business studies, and online pedagogy courses since 2008. Kay uses student feedback to continually refine and expand the educational simulations she creates to use in her e-courses. She has written about her creation and use of OpenSimulator-based learning simulations – see "Interactivity, Engagement, and Increased Learning Outcomes in 3D Virtual World Educational Simulations" (@ http://www.editlib.org/p/40849), “Prisoners’ Dilemma” simulation use case example (@ https://sites.google.com/site/fvwc12mclennan), and “Data Detectives Game” simulation use case example (@ https://sites.google.com/site/fvc13mclennan). Also, the video clips from the December 2018 “Mainstreaming Virtual World Learning Colloquium” event – organized by Kay -- can be viewed @ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLctERt0Fl50gLOgYPdfHDE8NcPtuO4wb0
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Session will detail the results of a recent survey of educators (to find out about educators’ expected virtual world and virtual reality learning simulation use during the current
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Session will detail the results of a recent survey of educators (to find out about educators’ expected virtual world and virtual reality learning simulation use during the current pandemic-impacted academic year). Spoiler alert — most of the educators surveyed plan to expand their use of virtual world learning simulations (while the educators foresee a reduction in their use of virtual reality headset-based simulations). Also, this session will explore the topic of “right sizing” virtual world learning simulations – as guidance [for new and experienced users] on how to maximize student engagement and learning outcomes.
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06dec7:30 am8:30 amFeaturedSceneGate, EchoVoice, and IMABox7:30 am - 8:30 am Keynote Auditorium
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Frank Rulof
Frank Rulof
Frank Rulof is a Senior Systems Engineer at Thales Netherlands with expertise areas in Training & Simulation. He is leading the research and innovation activities related to Open Simulator technology within the Thales Global Company using multiple Open Simulator grids focused on user needs.
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Lisa Laxton
Lisa Laxton
Lisa Laxton is the R&D Visionary and CEO of the OpenSimulator community focused foundation Infinite Metaverse Alliance® (IMA). She is also President of Laxton Consulting LLC with experience providing various virtual world technology solutions for education, research, business, and defense clients. You may have seen her around the HyperGrid busy building content or engaged in testing but she is available via meetings to anyone in the Open Simulator community interested in collaborating to advance virtual worlds technology and/or to improve accessibility.
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Troy Schultz / Seth Nygard
Troy Schultz / Seth Nygard
Troy Schultz (Seth Nygard) is a multi-discipline developer with 30+ years experience in real-time systems for industrial, automotive, and other critical environments. He has worked in the roles of Senior Hardware Designer, Senior Systems Administrator, Engineering Manager, and Chief Technology Officer at various companies and was the owner/operator of Refuge Grid. Combining a keen interest in virtual worlds with his professional experiences he has been an active builder, tester, and developer using Open Simulator.
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This presentation from Infinite Metaverse Alliance® (IMA) and Thales Group discusses research and development progress towards improving open source code for: SceneGate and Future Viewer efforts, EchoVoice server
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This presentation from Infinite Metaverse Alliance® (IMA) and Thales Group discusses research and development progress towards improving open source code for: SceneGate and Future Viewer efforts, EchoVoice server and bridge applications, and a platform agnostic IMABox solution. The discussion is focused on the development work progress to provide modernized solutions advancing virtual world technologies for everyone. The work of IMA and Thales is in general directed toward broadening use of the Metaverse for Public, Education, Industry and Government sectors but the community as a whole benefits from open source.
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Heike Philp
Heike Philp
Heike Philp is CEO of let’s talk online sprl, based in Brussels, Belgium, immersive language education specialist. Philp co-initiated four European funded projects (LANCELOT, AVALON, CAMELOT and GUINEVERE) to develop accredited and certified teacher training courses for language teaching and learning in real-time at a distance. She co-owns EduNation islands in Second Life, regions in OpenSim and servers in Minecraft.
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Storytelling is a wonderful means of getting our language learners excited. Recreating such a story in a virtual world would provide a great setting for roleplay and fanfiction.
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Storytelling is a wonderful means of getting our language learners excited. Recreating such a story in a virtual world would provide a great setting for roleplay and fanfiction. Yet, how difficult is it to recreate scenes of Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter or King Arthur and his Round Table in OpenSim? What about character creation? Changing avatar outfit, clothes and accessories? When creating the scene, what building skills are required and when it comes to storytelling, what skills are required to come up with a captivating story? These main three challenges will be addressed in an EVO session and we hope to recreate collaboratively a story in OpenSim. Organised by TESOL America every year in January / February thousands of language educators mingle online to learn from each other in a free-of charge 5-week workshops. This year we invite participants to join us in creating story – and perhaps it is the story of EXCALIBUR…..
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06dec9:00 am9:30 amBreakEXPO ZONE TOUR TIME9:00 am - 9:30 am
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are located in OSCC Expo Zone 3 and there are extensive Hypergrid resources and links to many HyperGrid enabled OpenSimulator grids to explore.
06dec9:30 am10:00 amFeaturedWhy is Opensimulator so boring?9:30 am - 10:00 am Keynote Auditorium
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Kisma Reidling / Juliette SurrealDreaming
Kisma Reidling / Juliette SurrealDreaming
Kisma is a visionary mixed media artist living in Newport Beach, California. She was Co-curator for 1Biennale 2018, which made it to the first global showing of Immersive Art in Opensimulator.
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Reiner Schneeberger / Art Blue
Reiner Schneeberger / Art Blue
I once worked in supercomputing at Control Data as Head of Consulting dreaming with Seymour Cray to catch the movements of the stars. Now I dream of an Actual Virtual Reality for the Arts where everyone can become part of it. I am an artist, curator and writer and I have a degree in simulation, that’s why Art Blue listens to the owl-AI, which is my excuse if things go wrong.
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My owl says, “This presentation must be a keynote.” That is not true, it has to be THE KEYNOTE. In case you arrive on time to listen to
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My owl says, “This presentation must be a keynote.” That is not true, it has to be THE KEYNOTE. In case you arrive on time to listen to the keynote from the beginning then you will know for sure what to answer when you are asked next time, “What do you do for a living?” Then you can answer, “I MAKE AMERIKA ART AGAIN.” And when the person shakes their head or even worse gives you a sign of stupidity, it will be time to tell the naked truth, “I USE OPENSIMULATOR.” This presentation is based on social science. This presentation uses an AI. This presentation is Art. This presentation is disruptive. The “K” in Amerika stands for a reason, a reason that will be uncovered. In fact, this presentation is all about you. You, being a person who may have heard over the years, “Oh … Really? You still work with Opensimulator, isn’t that like old SL?” In fact, the person might be thinking: “How boring.”
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06dec10:00 am10:30 amFeaturedA New Dimension In Grid Hosting!10:00 am - 10:30 am Keynote Auditorium
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Myron Curtis / Darkeagle Darkstone
Myron Curtis / Darkeagle Darkstone
retired at Home Former Instructor at Butte-Glenn Community College District Former Project Director-Grants, DSN ICT & DM at Butte Community College Presenter at The Science Circle Studied Psychology at California State University, Chico Studied Computer science at Butte College CEO of A Dimension Beyond Founder, Developer, and Owner of Virtual Worlds Grid
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Steve LaVigne
Steve LaVigne
Steve LaVigne is one of the founders of A Dimension Beyond, Inc. He has been involved in virtual worlds since 2006. Ever since he first got into Second Life he wanted to have this on his own servers!
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A presentation about A Dimension Beyond Inc. and how they have taken a different path on hosting OpenSim, Halcyon, and cybaLOUNGE grids. We will get into the in’s
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A presentation about A Dimension Beyond Inc. and how they have taken a different path on hosting OpenSim, Halcyon, and cybaLOUNGE grids. We will get into the in’s and outs of hosting DreamGrid OpenSim Grids.
We will talk about selling hosting in different ways and the in’s and outs of the different ways. A Dimension Beyond decided to do hosting differently and we will explain how it works. We will also share experiences in hosting Halcyon and cybaLOUNGE.
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06dec10:30 am11:30 amFeaturedUnderstanding Lag in Firestorm10:30 am - 11:30 am Keynote Auditorium
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Bluezy Bleac
Bluezy Bleac
I have been teaching the firestormviewer ever since it started. I taught Phoenix before that. I am weird, but I love to teach.
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Too Laggy? Then check out this presentation by Bluezy Bleac on understanding “lag” and how to deal with it. He will be explaining the things that cause lag,
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Too Laggy? Then check out this presentation by Bluezy Bleac on understanding “lag” and how to deal with it. He will be explaining the things that cause lag, the reasons behind each, and possible solutions for each of them.
06dec11:30 am12:00 pmMeal BreakEXPO ZONE TOUR TIME11:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are located in OSCC Expo Zone 3 and there are extensive Hypergrid resources and links to many HyperGrid enabled OpenSimulator grids to explore.
06dec12:00 pm1:00 pmFeaturedThe New PlatformsPanel Discussion12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Keynote Auditorium
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Adam Frisby
Adam Frisby
CEO / Sine Wave Entertainment
IT Entrepreneur with speciality in Research and Development projects. Recently involved in the development of industry award-winning immersive media software ("OpenSimulator"). Specialties: Project Management, Software Development, Product design, Virtual Worlds.
CEO / Sine Wave Entertainment
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Caitlyn Meeks
Caitlyn Meeks
Co-founder and CEO of Tivoli Cloud VR. Formerly of High Fidelity, Inc and Unity Technologies.
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Kalila Lakeworth
Kalila Lakeworth
Kalila Lakeworth is a dedicated metaverse trailblazer. She is the founder and leader of the Vircadia project. Her primary motivation is to see a future with virtual worlds worth living in.
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Lacie Sansar
Lacie Sansar
Community Manager for Sansar. VR and Virtual world enthusiast.
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Mal Burns
Mal Burns
Metaworld Inworld Review
Mal Burns is host of the "Inworld Review" - a weekly news and discussion program which has been running for over 10 years. He and Tara Yeats run Metaworld Broadcasting to provide input and output services for TV in virtual worlds and the expertise for the same. Mal has used virtual environments for nearly a decade, is concerned about user interfaces in general and has a wealth of media and design experience behind him. In the organic sphere he is now retired and uses his experience to deploy and promote in immersive spaces. He also has a twitter stream (@malburns) provide news links on a daily basis.
Metaworld Inworld Review
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Panel discussion moderated by Mal Burns
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Panel discussion moderated by Mal Burns
06dec1:00 pm1:30 pmFeaturedGrid Architecture1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Keynote Auditorium
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Andrew Stricker / Spinoza Quinnell
Andrew Stricker / Spinoza Quinnell
Dr. Andrew Stricker is an education innovation analyst with Air University’s LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education. In this position he conducts research in future concepts and advances in cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence for innovative applications in professional military education. His research addresses augmented cognition and developmental growth in reflective mindsets and contemplative practices. Andrew also engages in collaborative design of assistive immersive 3D virtual and augmented reality simulations for helping to improve complex problem-solving among teams. His graduate work was conducted at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He is a member of the American Psychological Association. In 2020 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Board of Standards in Performance, Training and Instruction (IBSTPI).
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Cynthia Calongne / Lyr Lobo
Cynthia Calongne / Lyr Lobo
OSCC Co-Chair, Professor
Dr. Cynthia Calongne, aka Lyr Lobo, is a Professor at Colorado Technical University and CCCOnline. She taught 52 university classes held in virtual worlds and conducts virtual world research at Virtual Harmony. As a software engineer, she worked with Air Force Space Command and with the U.S. Space Foundation during the Space Shuttle Challenger crash. A pioneer for 3D immersive education and games for change, she received the Thinkerer award at the 2017 Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education, and her team won the $25,000 Grand Prize in the Federal Virtual World Challenge for their space simulation the Mars Expedition Strategy Challenge. Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/presentations
OSCC Co-Chair, Professor
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Join us as we review our hybrid-cloud grid architecture used by Virtual Harmony (VH). On VH, we host over 12 grids and use the technology to support our
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Join us as we review our hybrid-cloud grid architecture used by Virtual Harmony (VH). On VH, we host over 12 grids and use the technology to support our classes, research meetings, and Global Learning Forum events. Each grid has a theme and a purpose, and during the session, we’ll describe our experiences and how we optimize server and data performance.
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Kalila Lakeworth
Kalila Lakeworth
Kalila Lakeworth is a dedicated metaverse trailblazer. She is the founder and leader of the Vircadia project. Her primary motivation is to see a future with virtual worlds worth living in.
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We’ve been escaping into virtual worlds for decades. With the resurgence of VR, now is the time to go to the next level. Let’s take a look at
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We’ve been escaping into virtual worlds for decades. With the resurgence of VR, now is the time to go to the next level. Let’s take a look at what is needed out of the software that will ultimately empower us to live our lives virtually.
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Andrew Stricker / Spinoza Quinnell
Andrew Stricker / Spinoza Quinnell
Dr. Andrew Stricker is an education innovation analyst with Air University’s LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education. In this position he conducts research in future concepts and advances in cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence for innovative applications in professional military education. His research addresses augmented cognition and developmental growth in reflective mindsets and contemplative practices. Andrew also engages in collaborative design of assistive immersive 3D virtual and augmented reality simulations for helping to improve complex problem-solving among teams. His graduate work was conducted at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He is a member of the American Psychological Association. In 2020 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Board of Standards in Performance, Training and Instruction (IBSTPI).
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Barbara Truman / Delightful Doowangle
Barbara Truman / Delightful Doowangle
UCF Graduate Faculty & Simulation Researcher
Dr. Barbara Truman serves as a Strategic Advisor for Immersive Learning & Collaboration in the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training in Orlando. At UCF, Barbara founded an award-winning department representing Online@UCF. Her background is in Instructional Systems Design, Human Performance Technology, and Computer Science, Emerging Media. Barbara has also served as the Community Manager for the US Army's Military Open Simulation Enterprise Strategy (MOSES) Project.
UCF Graduate Faculty & Simulation Researcher
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Cynthia Calongne / Lyr Lobo
Cynthia Calongne / Lyr Lobo
OSCC Co-Chair, Professor
Dr. Cynthia Calongne, aka Lyr Lobo, is a Professor at Colorado Technical University and CCCOnline. She taught 52 university classes held in virtual worlds and conducts virtual world research at Virtual Harmony. As a software engineer, she worked with Air Force Space Command and with the U.S. Space Foundation during the Space Shuttle Challenger crash. A pioneer for 3D immersive education and games for change, she received the Thinkerer award at the 2017 Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education, and her team won the $25,000 Grand Prize in the Federal Virtual World Challenge for their space simulation the Mars Expedition Strategy Challenge. Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/presentations
OSCC Co-Chair, Professor
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Elizabeth Stricker / Algernon Loire
Elizabeth Stricker / Algernon Loire
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Francisca Yonekura / Frankie Antonelli
Francisca Yonekura / Frankie Antonelli
Frankie comes from the higher education world where she specializes in instructional systems and emerging technologies in support of learning. Frankie is also known to be a curious traveler immersed in virtual worlds for empowering learning experiences in the company of kindred spirits. FTW - For the win!
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JJ Jacobson / JJ Drinkwater
JJ Jacobson / JJ Drinkwater
Sci-Fi Librarian
JJ Drinkwater is a Virtual Librarian in a Real World, or a Real Librarian in a Virtual World, or both, or neither. Curatorial experience includes the real & imaginary 19th c, American Culinary History, and Speculative Fiction. Current research is Interactive/Immersive/Improvisatory Narrative in Virtual Environments.
Sci-Fi Librarian
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Kathy Flitter / Lyn Skylark
Kathy Flitter / Lyn Skylark
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This panel will discuss the spontaneous social architecture and journey of the Virtual Harmony community. The Virtual Harmony community offers 12 Open Simulator grids supporting its work with
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This panel will discuss the spontaneous social architecture and journey of the Virtual Harmony community. The Virtual Harmony community offers 12 Open Simulator grids supporting its work with small communities, immersive 3D courses, and learning simulations. Speakers will share their journey in the virtual community. Highlights will include an overview of Virtual Harmony’s Gemeinschaft framework for resiliency in times of dissociation. Five areas of the Gemeinschaft framework to be discussed by the panel are: kinship and fellowship, psychological and spiritual nourishment, creative ideation of art-of-the-possible, collaborative design and creation of virtual habitats for Gemeinschaft, and harmonious healing and resiliency from co-living in Gemeinschaft. The concept of social dissociation will be briefly described along with healing recommendations.
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06dec3:00 pm3:30 pmBreakEXPO ZONE TOUR TIME3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are
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Join us for some time exploring the many Sponsor, Crowdfunder, and speaker booths along with HyperGrid resources and art installations across the OSCC Expo Zones. Speaker booths are located in OSCC Expo Zone 3 and there are extensive Hypergrid resources and links to many HyperGrid enabled OpenSimulator grids to explore.
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Chris Luchs / Abacus Capalini
Chris Luchs / Abacus Capalini
Chris Luchs is a PhD student at Old Dominion University. He has fifteen years of experience teaching online and f2f. He also has a passion for investigating new technologies and collaborating with other educators on exploring virtual worlds and games.
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Kae Novak / Kavon Zenovka
Kae Novak / Kavon Zenovka
Kae Novak is an Instructional Designer and a PhD student at the University of Colorado - Denver. She also leads and facilitates the Metagame Book Club which combines the reading of fiction, game play, and education research.
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While virtual worlds might be emerging pedagogy for many, as veterans we have an dystopic opportunity to show other educators how deeper learning can take place in immersive
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While virtual worlds might be emerging pedagogy for many, as veterans we have an dystopic opportunity to show other educators how deeper learning can take place in immersive environments. Come join us for a discussion on how to showcase your worlds and once again open the portal to the creative, educational, technical, and experiential metaverse.
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Randall Deich / Logansan Deich
Randall Deich / Logansan Deich
Randall is a results-driven program manager and instructional designer with success in developing effective learning experiences. As co-founder and Chief Networking Officer of ReGenerate Tech, Randall partners with industry professionals to develop leaning pathways for underserved students.
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Tanya Martin / Gridjumper
Tanya Martin / Gridjumper
Tanya Is an online gamer, former Computer Science teacher and professional development professional. “Grid Jumper” has been exploring, learning and playing in the virtual world for almost 12 years. Tanya is on the ReGenerate Tech Board, working to promote authentic experiences for students in the community.
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2020 brought us a terrible pandemic but an opportunity to provide high school students with an alternative form of interaction and productive participation. Hear how high school students
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2020 brought us a terrible pandemic but an opportunity to provide high school students with an alternative form of interaction and productive participation. Hear how high school students participated and benefitted from a virtual prom on Avacon Grid and how a group of educators, in multiple remote geographic locations, volunteered their time and skills to make it happen.
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Andrew Sullivan / Andy Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan / Andy Sullivan
3D Modeler and Scripter, Process Simulation Designer, and University Instructor with 28 years experience in the Refining and Chemicals sector with roles including FCC Business Team Lead, Operations Coordinator, and Engineering Supervisor, My training tools are available at my website: https://processplanttechnology.me/ and in my Second Life region: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/HeavyIndustry/42/167/8.
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James Neville / Sitearm Madonna
James Neville / Sitearm Madonna
James G Neville (Sitearm) is Owner at Online Media Service of Development One LLC. Online Presence. Consultant and practitioner in applied online collaboration, virtual reality, and social media.
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Renne Brock / Zinnia Zauber
Renne Brock / Zinnia Zauber
Renne Brock (Zinnia Zauber) is Artist, Professor, Superhero, and Advocate for Awesomeness encouraging and empowering active, inclusive education and community participation in the arts and sciences.
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Can undergraduate instructors and students in different areas of practice cooperate online to instill cross-disciplinary communication skills at the same time as they more effectively teach and learn
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Can undergraduate instructors and students in different areas of practice cooperate online to instill cross-disciplinary communication skills at the same time as they more effectively teach and learn their own subject matter? College students from Montana State University Billings and Peninsula College Washington State were brought together by their instructors, online, in an authentic industry modeling scenario where a consultant group is hired by a corporation to improve performance, based on discussion with subject matter experts and studying work processes. Operator and Designer students came together to focus on A) Effective visual communication cues in a dangerous operating environment, and B) Learning to communicate professionally across technical specialties.
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Rachel Umoren
Rachel Umoren
Dr. Rachel Umoren is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington where she is the Director of the Neonatal Education and Simulation-Based Training Program and Neonatal Telemedicine Lead. She is also an adjunct professor in the UW Department of Global Health. Her research focuses on improving neonatal outcomes globally through simulation-based education and global health partnerships. She has published and presented internationally on virtual simulations for health professional education.
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Healthcare workers need to practice their skills to maintain competence, but this requires facility space, equipment and supervision. On the other hand, the high penetration of mobile smartphones
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Healthcare workers need to practice their skills to maintain competence, but this requires facility space, equipment and supervision. On the other hand, the high penetration of mobile smartphones and cellular network connectivity in many countries around the world makes virtual reality simulation training feasible. VR simulations can be engaged at the learner’s convenience with game-based automated feedback that is ideal for episodic learning. However, many healthcare workers in resource-scarce settings have never experienced VR training. This presentation summarizes the lessons learned in development and feasibility testing of VR simulations among healthcare workers in a resource-scarce setting.
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Ramesh Ramloll
Ramesh Ramloll
CEO/CTU DeepSemaphore LLC
Rameshsharma Ramloll currently leads DeepSemaphore LLC, an E-Learning and Simulation Solutions company.
CEO/CTU DeepSemaphore LLC
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After the onset of the Covid crisis, many of us expected 3D virtual worlds to be an obvious solution for connecting people. We discuss the challenges that still
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After the onset of the Covid crisis, many of us expected 3D virtual worlds to be an obvious solution for connecting people. We discuss the challenges that still stand in the way. We present some possible solutions.
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DJ Strannik Z
DJ Strannik Z
DJ Strannik Z is a musician of diverse interests. He is a chant choir director, folk musician, producer, and DJ. He DJs in both virtual worlds and at events in Real Life™, such as parties or clubs. His music is very eclectic, but orbits around the following genres: Folktronica Deep House Ambient Pop, Dream Pop, Indie Drone & Shoegaze Ambient Dub & Reggae Other IDM or EDM: trance, techno, goa, etc. Alternative/Indie Rock A few classic oldies You can hear DJ Strannik in action at the Tiki Beach Club on select Friday nights (check the calendar link for dates and times). He has also played at AvatarFest and has hosted afterparties for the Open Simulator Community Conference.
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Etheriel 7 – Dream Pop Rave (After Party) After conspiring about the next Opensim takeover of the world, come down to Tiki Beach on
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Etheriel 7 – Dream Pop Rave (After Party)
After conspiring about the next Opensim takeover of the world, come down to Tiki Beach on Pirate’s Atoll for an afterparty and dance your av off! DJ Strannik Z will spin toons with a Dream Pop / Shoegaze focus.
The usual instructions for how to get there are at this link.
Once you are in a hypergrid enabled world, you can put the following in your map: login.digiworldz.com:8002:Pirates Atoll
After arriving in the main station, there will be a linked poster, or you can take the Tiki Beach subway stop to get to the party.
Public or Invitation Only: Open to All
Maturity Rating: Appropriate for Mature Audiences (M)
Grid Name: DigiWorldz
Grid Website: http://piratesatoll.com
HyperGrid Enabled?: Yes
HyperGrid URL: http://login.digiworldz.com:8002:pirates atoll
Region Name: Pirates Atoll
Map Coordinates: 128/128/23
Parcel/Venue Name: Tiki Beach
Check http://piratesatoll.com for more info and updates.
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15dec3:00 pm5:00 pmAVACON GRID HOLIDAY PARTY3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Avacon Grid Plaza
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Join AvaCon, for a holiday party located on the AvaCon Plaza region in the AvaCon grid. This is a chance for final end-of-year networking with
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Join AvaCon, for a holiday party located on the AvaCon Plaza region in the AvaCon grid.
This is a chance for final end-of-year networking with other #OSCC20 attendees. You can also find out about the events, resources, and programs AvaCon offers, including the Free Virtual Land for Social Good Community on the AvaCon Grid
To attend, you can login with your OSCC conference grid avatar account or another OpenSimulator account that is Hypergrid enabled, and then you can Hypergrid jump to http://grid.avacon.org:8002 . Copy the url, open the world map, and paste the url in the little search bar on the right! Click on Find and then on Teleport!
You can also create an AvaCon Grid local account at http://grid.avacon.org:8005/wifi/user/account/ and if you need more info on connecting, go to https://www.avacon.org/blog/avacon-grid/.
Tuesday December 15, 2020 3:00pm – 5:00pm
On AvaCon Grid – HyperGrid address: http://grid.avacon.org:8002
- Mature Rating Appropriate for All Ages (G)
- Public or Invitation Only Open to All
- Region Name AvaCon Plaza
- Parcel/Venue Name AvaCon Plaza
Images of AvaCon holiday party 2019 by Alba Rocca
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