Tag Archives: OpenSim

Innovation in Virtual Worlds Seminar, February 1

NVWN – The Nordic Virtual Worlds Network (www.nordicworlds.net) cordially invites you to participate in the Innovation in Virtual Worlds Seminar. This seminar is part of a series of Virtual Worlds events organized in the Nordics and its purpose is to stimulate knowledge sharing and networking among individuals and organizations interested in 3D Internet innovation. When: [...]

Academic Research Paper on OpenSim Community

Robin Teigland, Paul Di Gangi, and Zeynep Yetis recently finished an academic paper based on their research of the OpenSim Community. Below is the abstract. If you have any questions about their research, please do not hesitate to contact them. Setting the Stage: Exploring Sustainability of a Private-collective Community Abstract While the nature of the firm has [...]

Sept 7, Interview with Justin Clark-Casey – Welcome!

Wednesday, Sept 7, at 16:00 – 17:00 CET (7:00 – 8:00 am SLT/PST): Justin Clark-Casey will visit NVWN’s Virtual Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Second Life. In a Q&A session led by Robin Teigland of NVWN, Justin will discuss Open Simulator, the Second Life compatible open-source virtual environment platform, as well as present his [...]

Transcription of Q&A by Ilan Tochner of Kitely

On Monday we had a fascinating and insightful presentation by Ilan Tochner of Kitely – VWs on Demand. Ilan shared with the group of people from countries such as US, Sweden, German, Switzerland, and Finland his vision for virtual worlds and in particular for Kitely as a virtual world backend enabler: “You should think of [...]

Presentation to Minälv Marketing Association and my experience with Kitely

In preparation for a presentation on virtual worlds from a business perspective to Minälv Marketing Association in Norra Älvsborg, Sweden, I needed to update myself with all the recent developments during the past few months. I must say it is hard to stay abreast of everything that is happening these days with virtual worlds. A [...]

Presentation of realXtend.org by Toni Alatalo at NVWN Monthly Meeting

April’s guest was Toni Alatalo (Python Morales in Second Life) of realXtend, an open source platform for interconnected virtual worlds. Below is a transcript from his presentation and here are his slides: realXtend Presentation for NVWN April 2011 Background to realXtend Toni has been working with internet development for the past 20 years. realXtend was [...]

Notes from AoIR 11 Workshop on Research and Learning in Second Life (Part 3)

During the last event of the AoIR workshop last week, we had a hands-on session learning about OpenSim with Terry Beaubois of the Creative Research Lab at Montana State University and John “Pathfinder” Lester. Terry started off the session asking us to think back to 2005 and to reflect on what we have done and [...]