Importing 3D Models Into Second Life

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I’ve been gathering a list of resources on the conversion process for bringing existing 3D models on to the Second Life platform. I’m dumping them here so I have a way to get back to them - maybe they will be useful for someone else.
There are various tools people […]

Singulary Summit 2007 Speakers

The Singularity Summit was held last week and for those of us who were not able to attend there are podcasts available on the summit’s website. There is also a transcript of a particularly interesting talk presented by Jamais Cascio titled Openness and the Metaverse Singularity. Some great thoughts by one of the contributors to […]

Finding Textures for Second Life Projects

Virtual worlds like Second Life make it easy to create our own content, but not all of us have the time or talent to create our own textures. As educators we often find our budgets rather limited too. In addition to the various free textures you can find in Second Life at flea markets and […]

Configuring the 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator for Second Life

Finally, the SpaceNavigator works in Second Life with the SL Viewer Joystick Flycam function. Huh? What does this mean? Well, it’s possible to use the SpaceNavigator for more smooth camera control than using a mouse while filming machinima. Note that the SpaceNavigator doesn’t give you as much control as a mouse does, but the camera […]

Open Learning: Podcasts

Want to learn about the Foundations of American Cyberculture, Existentialism in Literature and Film, Brain Structure and its Origins, or Quantum Entanglement? OpenCulture has linked to collections of open course material from a number of institutions including MIT, Berkley, Stanford, Oxford, University of Glasgow, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, University of Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Harvard and […]

Webcasts from the MIT Media Lab

There are links on Bob Sutor’s blog to the webcasts from the Virtual Worlds: Where Business, Society, Technology & Policy Converge Conference, presented by IBM and the MIT Media Lab in June of this year. There are some interesting thoughts on how virtual worlds will change how we think of identity in the future.
While digging […]

SL Quirkyness in Meatspace

Thank goodness meatspace doesn’t suffer from the same buggy afflictions often encountered on the Second Life grid. If it did it would certainly be as humorous as this video spotted on YouTube:
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Find Voice Enabled Parcels in SL

The Voicemap is available now at secondlife.com and allows you to see which areas have the voice feature enabled. There are a number of locations already and more are added each day.
One thing that caught my attention about this map is that it is using the Google API.

TeacherShare.org

TeacherShare is a proof-of-concept site where educators can share links and learning resources, similar to how social bookmarking services like del.icio.us function. While the learning repository concept isn’t new, this implementation as a collection of shared links has some interesting social features like ranks, comments, and recommendations. It also makes use of a tag cloud […]

FlickrSLiDR for Your Site

FlickrSLiDR, a little app by Paul Stamatiou, enables you to create sets of Flickr photos to place on your web site - like this:

Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.
Don’t forget to check the Creative Commons license before you use images from other users before you do.