There's a computer graphics class taught at my university that uses some private, rented region of Second Life for creating models and such as a final project. One of the last lectures of the semester is held directly in Second Life in a virtual classroom and a working projector for the instructor's slides.<br><br>On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, <<a href="mailto:gandalf@sonic.net">gandalf@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The wonderful anime / sci-fi movie Summer Wars is based on Secondlife/Facebook. It's a typical sci-fi cautionary tale that is very well done.<br>
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1474276/" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1474276/</a><br>
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On 2016-04-12 17:31, Allan Cecil wrote:<br>
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Just a reminder that NBLUG is tonight at 7:30. I have fond memories<br>
of reading Snow Crash and the concept of a functional Metaverse<br>
greatly intrigues me - this should be a fun meeting. I hope to see<br>
you there,<br>
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A.C.<br>
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President, North Bay Linux User's Group<br>
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On 03/29/2016 08:22 PM, E Frank Ball III wrote:<br>
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Topic: Life After Second Life: Metaverse<br>
When: Tues April 12th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM<br>
Speaker: Mike Higgins<br>
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Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room<br>
past the metal statue and to the right ( <a href="http://nblug.org/locations" target="_blank">http://nblug.org/locations</a> )<br>
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I gave a talk here once before about programming in the video game<br>
Second Life ( <a href="http://nblug.org/node/155/" target="_blank">http://nblug.org/node/155/</a> ). This time I'll talk about<br>
Life After Second Life. There is a larger world, a Metaverse, of open<br>
source MMORPGs based on the open source Second Life Viewer projects and<br>
the Open Simulator project. There are hundreds of small companies<br>
trying to make a living doing what Second Life did. There are thousands<br>
of crazy artists creating 3D environments and inviting you to walk<br>
through them, there are tens of thousands of people setting up virtual<br>
environments on their own PCs and all of these are starting to link up<br>
to each other. My plan is to not have many slides for this talk, but<br>
log onto several different virtual worlds and put them up on the Big<br>
Screen while I talk. Eventually taking us to my private world run off<br>
the server in my barn. - Mike Higgins<br>
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