Category Archives: Hypergrid Adventurers Club

Hypergrid Adventurers Club meet #23: Exploring Nuclear Research at CERN

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For today’s meeting, we explored the region CERN on New World Grid.

In real life, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research.  The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors.  Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before they are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions.

The region CERN on New World Grid features detailed recreations of real life architecture at CERN as well self-guided tours of models of particle accelerators.

Read on for a full transcript and many photos of our adventure.

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Encouraging Exploration: Tales of Telehubs and Hypergrid Hops

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We all have a desire to explore.  It’s in our nature as human beings to seek out novel things, both the conceptual and the physical.  To be human is to be an explorer.

Virtual worlds give us an opportunity to explore and discover new environments filled with new people.  And given the malleable nature of virtual worlds, we can design these environments in ways to specifically encourage exploration.

But trying to encourage people to explore by design is tricky.  Read on for some thoughts and examples.

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Hypergrid Adventurers Club meet #21+22: Exploring “The Grey Inn Between”

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Today we took two tours of Vanish Seriath’s standalone grid “The Grey Inn Between.”

The Grey Inn was inspired by a story of “The Sandman” by Neil Gaiman, and it’s a magical place full of many beautiful creations.  Vanish gives his work away freely on The Grey Inn, and his blog has many helpful tutorials and downloadable free content for use in Opensim.

Read on for many photos and a full transcript of our discussions!

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Hypergrid Adventurers Club meet #20: Discussing web-based virtual worlds and exploring Jibe / Unity3D

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At a recent club meeting, some folks mentioned they were interested in learning more about web-based virtual worlds and possibly taking a tour of one of them.

So today, our discussion focused on web-based virtual worlds.  And instead of traveling the Hypergrid, we made a special visit to a Jibe-based Unity3D world.

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Hypergrid Adventurers Club on IRC

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At a recent meeting of the Hypergrid Adventurers Club we visited The Grey In Between, a beautiful standalone grid created by Vanish Seriath.  During our meeting, Vanish mentioned how it might be helpful for us to use IRC as an additional way to chat in realtime as a group.

Read on to learn more about IRC and how to use it to stay in touch during our adventures.

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Hypergrid Adventurers Club meet #18+19: Exploring Quebec on FrancoGrid, Discussing Content Licensing, and Discovering Crop Circles

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In today’s two meetings we explored the region Quebec on FrancoGrid.  This region featured a library with interactive 3D exhibits, a planetarium with a UFO exhibit, and a replica of the Pont de Québec bridge.  We also had great discussions including one about content ownership and licensing in OpenSim.

Read on for a full transcript and many photos of our adventure.

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Hypergrid Adventurers Club meet #16+17: The 1939 World’s Fair on ReactionGrid and Spanish Hypernaut LexGrey Barbosa’s new home on FrancoGrid

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In today’s two meetings we explored a recreation of the 1939 New York World’s Fair on ReactionGrid, featuring the iconic Trylon and Perisphere.

We also took a trip to LexGrey Barbosa’s new region on FrancoGrid, which he hosts from an OpenSim server in his home.

Read on for a full transcript and many photos.

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New Outpost on the German grid of Metropolis

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I’ve just established an Outpost for the Hypergrid Adventurers Club on the German grid of Metropolis.

It’s located in the large train station at the Metropolis arrival point *CenterWorld*. Inside you’ll find freebies and more!

Read on for more details.

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Hypergrid Adventurers Club meet #15: Sci-fi art and fun in FrancoGrid

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In today’s meeting we visited FrancoGrid and checked out a very cool science fiction themed region named Hybride.

Hybride was stunning.  It’s impressive to see how one can create a consistent visual theme across an entire region.  We met some of locals of FrancoGrid, stopped by a great freebie store, and ended with an impromptu dance party.  Read on for a full transcript and many photos.

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Hypergrid Adventurers Club meet #13+14: Exploring the German grid of Metropolis Metaversum

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In today’s two meetings we explored Metropolis Metaversum for the first time.

We met some of the citizens of Metropolis, visited a beautiful train station, looked at classic German architecture, and found some nice freebies along the way.  We also learned that Nani Ferguson from FrancoGrid is creating a special scavenger hunt event for Christmas.  Read on for a full transcript and many photos.

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