Join us for the closing party for OSCC16 at 2pm pst / 10 pm gmt at the Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast on OSgrid
https://opensimulatorcommunity20162882.sched.com/event/8yI...
Virtual World musicians Truelie Telling and Casias Falta have been regulars on the stage of the Maritime Club for almost a decade with Truelie doing her all original folk-noir country-punk ballads http://www.reverbnation.com/truelietelling live from her Nashville studio and Casias live from Detroit

Join us for the closing party for OSCC16 at 2pm pst / 10 pm gmt at the Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast on OSgrid
https://opensimulatorcommunity20162882.sched.com/event/8yI...
Virtual World musicians Truelie Telling and Casias Falta have been regulars on the stage of the Maritime Club for almost a decade with Truelie doing her all original folk-noir country-punk ballads http://www.reverbnation.com/truelietelling live from her Nashville studio and Casias live from Detroit

Join us for the closing party for OSCC16 at 2pm pst / 10 pm gmt at the Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast on OSgrid
https://opensimulatorcommunity20162882.sched.com/event/8yI...
Virtual World musicians Truelie Telling and Casias Falta have been regulars on the stage of the Maritime Club for almost a decade with Truelie doing her all original folk-noir country-punk ballads http://www.reverbnation.com/truelietelling live from her Nashville studio and Casias live from Detroit

Join us for the closing party for OSCC16 at 2pm pst / 10 pm gmt at the Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast on OSgrid
https://opensimulatorcommunity20162882.sched.com/event/8yI...
Virtual World musicians Truelie Telling and Casias Falta have been regulars on the stage of the Maritime Club for almost a decade with Truelie doing her all original folk-noir country-punk ballads http://www.reverbnation.com/truelietelling live from her Nashville studio and Casias live from Detroit

Join us for the closing party for OSCC16 at 2pm pst / 10 pm gmt at the Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast on OSgrid
https://opensimulatorcommunity20162882.sched.com/event/8yI...
Virtual World musicians Truelie Telling and Casias Falta have been regulars on the stage of the Maritime Club for almost a decade with Truelie doing her all original folk-noir country-punk ballads http://www.reverbnation.com/truelietelling live from her Nashville studio and Casias live from Detroit

Join us for the closing party for OSCC16 at 2pm pst / 10 pm gmt at the Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast on OSgrid
https://opensimulatorcommunity20162882.sched.com/event/8yI...
Virtual World musicians Truelie Telling and Casias Falta have been regulars on the stage of the Maritime Club for almost a decade with Truelie doing her all original folk-noir country-punk ballads http://www.reverbnation.com/truelietelling live from her Nashville studio and Casias live from Detroit

Join us for the closing party for OSCC16 at 2pm pst / 10 pm gmt at the Maritime Club in Virtual Belfast on OSgrid
https://opensimulatorcommunity20162882.sched.com/event/8yI...
Virtual World musicians Truelie Telling and Casias Falta have been regulars on the stage of the Maritime Club for almost a decade with Truelie doing her all original folk-noir country-punk ballads http://www.reverbnation.com/truelietelling live from her Nashville studio and Casias live from Detroit

HyperGrid Safari - a choice of two hypergrid tour routes exploring locations in the OpenSimulator metaverse, featuring artistic builds, community, educational spaces, and free 3D content resources.
"We call it a Hypergrid Safari, because there's no saying what marvels you will see out there... but we can guarantee you a few close shaves, some friendly natives, and a bumpy ride!" - Thirza Ember
Improve your hypergrid skills, meet new people, and learn about the joys of group grid jumping.

Just to check how it behaves when it's crowded, so please drop in and let's try to crash the sim... I'll play some old tunes, mostly french, mostly pop, but who cares, it's just a test!

A cluster of bugs (all recorded in the OpenSimulator Mantis system) makes it difficult to script weapons in Open Simulator. Weapons are important to many different role-play communities. I will describe several methods that have been used to implement weapons, and how OpenSimulator could be improved to support them better. My goal is to generate excitement in the developers to fix some bugs critical to this disused corner of our communities.

Current virtual environment developers often find it difficult to pick a suitable virtual reality platform to support their application. This panel is an opportunity for developers proficient in current competing platforms to share their experience and discuss future platform evolution trajectories. It will also allow OpenSimulator core developers to differentiate OpenSimulator from its peers.

Senses Places: dancing with your physical body, image, avatar and bio-signals.

Senses Places is an ongoing collaborative transdisciplinary project creating mixed reality participatory performance environments that engage participants in a physical and mediat(iz)ed kinesthetic/somatic movement relational experience.
http://sensesplaces.org
http://isabel-valverde.branded.me
Isabel will discuss Senses Places artistic vision towards mixed reality embodied interfacing encompassing instead of simply substi

Join us as we discuss the creation of the AU Metaverse's SurvivalSim, where life teeters on the edge of a chocolate bar. From the frozen perch of a rusted out submarine to the debris left from crash landing in the Antarctic, SurvivalSim presents a challenge that tests the character strengths and wits of the players.

Exploring a little-known OpenSimulator module developed by Mic Bowman, and recently improved by Crista Lopes, allows developers to control OpenSim scenes externally, via Perl and Python scripts. Crista will explain what this module is capable of, and how to use it to develop highly dynamic 3D applications bypassing the scripting engine.

Virtual eCommerce: exploring finance, virtual currencies and markets in OpenSimulator.

Join Dr. Larysa Nadolny in a discussion of how to use the motivating and engaging features of games in designing a learning activity in the virtual world. She will give examples on how to use challenges, leaderboards, easter eggs and more!

Join Kay McLennan in a fast moving discussion (with handouts!) of how educators can start using engaging and effective virtual world simulations/activities immediately and with little or no cost. Kay will provide tips, tricks, and practical advice for how to: (1) bring students into a virtual world -- for building, exploration, and/or immersive discussions; (2) how to set-up prepacked virtual world simulations; and (3) how to use virtual world simulations as a backdrop for creating unique teaching materials

The Educational Robotics for STEM project, funded by the European Commission, aims to develop a continuous framework for the design of educational robotics activities for all children aged 7-18, both in and out-of-school, regardless of current interest in STEM subjects. In this presentation we explore the development of virtual robots (SLurtles) and the virtual environment in which children will explore, test and extend their understanding of mathematics and programming, through collaborative, constructioni

Up until this point, Open Simulator and other Virtual World systems have not been designed with the needs of all people with disabilities in mind. We will identify some areas where the development community needs improvement in its approaches and discuss some simple solutions that could be implemented now. Future innovation ideas will also be discussed to look for new simple and creative ways to get everyone involved in the Virtual World Community no matter what their needs are.

Melding music technology and the Oculus Rift, an overview of immersive music research.

Conflict resolution is essential to effective team performance. Teams can practice communication and conflict resolution skills using tools deployed in virtual environments. We will discuss a case study for teaching nursing students how to manage conflict and explore strategies for engaging teams and evaluating team performance in virtual settings.

Applying language games in virtual worlds has been the objective of a teacher training initiative by the Italian Ministry of Education in Edmondo in OpenSimulator. Language educators from all over Italy learned to build, script and design communication activities and games which will be showcased in this presentation.

The development of virtual worlds has a detailed history in which acts of literary imagination and gaming innovations have led to advances in open-ended, socially oriented virtual platforms. This summary presentation focuses on the future advancements and key innovations which can be seen as paramount for the development of virtual worlds going forward, based on current and arising developments in the industry.

Latest data about OpenSim grids, users, and opinion surveys