The region Help Island on ReactionGrid is being developed by Tinsel Silvera.
It contains resources for new avatars including a freebie area, a Gallery of Prims for new builders, and Hypergates to various places to explore.
For today’s two meetings we visited Tinsel’s region and had a great discussion about best practices for helping new users in virtual worlds.
What’s cooler than robots?
Giant robots, of course.
For today’s meeting, we visited FrancoGrid to explore a junkyard complete with a derelict giant robot, a toxic lake, and a submarine.
I’m often impressed by the things we discover in our club’s travels across the Hypergrid.
Opensim is a pioneering platform where everyone is building anew, and that pioneering spirit brings out an amazing level of creativity.
But on this particular tour, we discovered something that completely blew me away. We found a cityscape spanning 16 regions. A Tolkien-themed area called “Romenna,” created by a single artist named Nick Lassard.
For this Sunday meeting, we made a couple very special excursions on the Hypergrid.
Instead of discovering strange new worlds and interesting new creations, we found an empty and vacant place.
So we left a message in a bottle.
At this meeting visited the region Wizzy on ReactionGrid. At this location, Wizard Gynoid has created a giant model of the E8 Polytope, one of the most complex and elegantly beautiful geometric objects known to mathematicians.
Read on for a full transcript and photos of our adventure.
I’ll be offline for a week starting Jan 12. So I won’t be around to host the next four meetings of the Hypergrid Adventurers Club.
But the show must go on!
Vanish Seriath frequently attends our club meetings, and he has graciously offered to lead the next three meetings.
This past Sunday we made two excursions to the region Physics on NewWorldGrid, where we discovered and explored a giant-sized physics lab as well as a planetarium.
In our second meeting of the day we met with the creator Aime Socrates, who also built the amazing CERN nuclear physics area we explored in a previous visit.
Read on for a full transcript and many photos from our two meetings on Sunday.
The folks on FrancoGrid are hosting another live opera.
It’s happening Thursday, January 6 @ 8pm French Time (11am SLT/2pm Eastern). Our Hypergrid Adventurers Club attended the previous opera, which was simply brilliant.
I’ll be leaving from the region Pathlandia on jokaydiaGRID at 7:30pm French Time (I want to arrive early) if folks would like a hypergrid guide to the performance. We can make the jumps from jokaydiaGRID to FrancoGrid together.
@Hugobiwan has created a poll to see how many folks will be attending the opera in Second Life versus Opensim. If you plan on attending the opera, please fill out this poll. That will help them a lot in their organizing and server setup. Thanks!
À Bientôt!
-John “Pathfinder” Lester
UPDATE Jan 8, 2011: Some nice coverage of the opera in the French press. See these articles on France24 and leParisien, and video coverage by a French TV station.
At this meeting we learned about an Opensim whiteboard tool designed by Trevor Meister and visited a There.com outpost on NewWorldGrid created by Mike_37uk There.
We also briefly discussed dachshunds. A subject very dear to me.
Read on for a full transcript and many photos of our adventure.
For today’s meeting, we visited VWERGrid, the new home of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable community.
On November 11th, 2010, the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable announced the opening of their second virtual home on their own Opensim grid called VWERGrid. Today we traveled to VWERGrid and had a chance to speak with AJ Kelton, the founder of the VWER.
Read on for a full transcript and many photos of our adventure.
Be Cunning and Full of Tricks 