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June 2012

June 19, 2012

Ai Austin participated on 19th June 2012 in an interview for a research study looking at the OpenSimulator community.

The interview was conducted in Second Life by:

  • Robin Teigland (www.knowledgenetworking.org) is an Associate Professor at the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Her research interests focus on the relationship between knowledge flows in networks and performance at the individual, organizational, and national levels.
  • Paul M. Di Gangi (http://paulmdigangi.com/) is an Assistant Professor at the Loyola University Maryland, USA. His research focuses on the intersection of social and digital networks and organizations for value creation purposes.
  • Zeynep Yetis is a PhD student at the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Her research interests focus on the dynamics of open-source communities and user-driven innovation.

Image without Second Life Viewer GUI.

Keywords: OpenSim

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In continuing experimentation with OpenSim Non-Player Character (NPC) technology (http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OSSLNPC) as part of work on my MSc in e-Learning dissertation, I have collected together the NPC creation, persistence, movement and removal scripts as resources for potential future projects. See http://atate.org/mscel/i-zone/npc/

 

An NPC can be created in OpenSim based on the current appearance of a specific avatar, including any attachments it has.  This allows a range of reactive capabiities and web service connections to be established through scripts running in attachments on the NPC itself. OpenSim NPCs are being epxlored as potential tutors in the "I-Zone" - a space to support mixed-initiative scenario-based training. See http://atate.org/mscel/i-zone/ for more resources.

Keywords: NPC, OpenSim

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June 22, 2012

Cloud Party is now becoming available with little "cloud" islands that can accommodate up to 25 avatars - see https://its.cloudpartytime.com/

FaceBook login is the norm unfortunately, but you can login anonymously for tests if you do not want to use FaceBook.

Keywords: Cloud Party, Virtual World

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