The Vesuvius Group

There will be a Virtual Web Symposium Wed. Feb. 27th, 15:00 - 22:00(GMT +1) at De Balie (Leidseplein) in Amsterdam. The event will include Scientists, Educators, Web Specialists, 3D Designers and Technicians. There will be demonstrations, lectures and discussions (both live and virtual) about Education and the Future of the Virtual Web For a list of participants and more detailed info see www.eduverse.org.

The entrance is free but there is limited availability. To guarantee access please RSVP ASAP to: EdSymp@eduverse.org (as of Thurs. 21.2.08, there is still space available). Dinner is not included. Also please note that the Symposium will be in English only

If you have a specific question which you would like to have answered, please include it in your response.

The event will be streamed on the web at: http://streams.live.nu (UK) http://www.debalie.nl/live (NL) and will be viewable afterwards from De Balie archives

The event will also be available to be seen live in Second Life at these locations:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Holland/157/79/23
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Eyre/210/203/23
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Groningen%20Centrum%20ZO/205/208/113
http://slurl.com/secondlife/maya/163/66/24
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Business%20Exchange/153/207/32
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amsterdam%202/205/205/25
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Enschede/133/212/22
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nuova%20Sicilia/88/166/33
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Berlin/131/131/31
http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Berlin/244/166/33

Should you wish to stream it yourself, then it is possible using this url:
rtsp://82.94.217.140:80/balieh264-320×240.mov.sdp

It will also be streamed live simultaneously with the following codecs for low speed internet connections:
http://live.nu/1.ram ( RealVideo)
http://live.nu/1.m3u (Mp3 audio mono)
http://live.nu/1.jpg > http://cam.live.nu ( image refresh ‘webcam’)

A new Sunday a new record.

Statistics compared to Sunday, February 17th:
Peak concurrency grew 896 users, a increase of 1.41%.
Minimum concurrency dropped 454 users, a decrease of 1.30%.
Median concurrency dropped 253 users, a decrease of 0.53%.

Saturday’s Peak was a new Saturday peak concurrency record.

Statistics compared to Saturday, February 9th:
Peak concurrency grew 125 users, a increase of 0.21%.
Minimum concurrency dropped 75 users, a decrease of 0.21%.
Median concurrency grew 4,992 users, a increase of 11.33%.

Statistics compared to Wednesday, February 6th:
Peak concurrency dropped 779 users, a decrease of 1.35%.
Minimum concurrency grew 749 users, a increase of 2.48%.
Median concurrency grew 528 users, a increase of 1.24%.

Metaplace is the in development virtual worlds platform, that will let you make your own virtual world for any platform. They are still in Alpha but slowly ramping up to a Beta.
2 weeks ago they had a Public developer chat, which they held in world via a web client. Next Friday 5pm PST they will be doing a stress test to see how well it can handle many users and instances.

Their Announcement:

We’d like to invite you for a public test of a puzzle game that we’ve created called Wheelwright! This test is not to focus test the game itself (it is not in a complete or polished state) but to test our platform technology. We will be testing our platform’s ability to create and maintain a large number of singleplayer game instances. Additionally, we will be testing chat between instances and persistence.

The link to visit will be:
http://www.metaplace.com

We hope to see a large number of participants help us with this stress test. Please join us on Friday, February 15 at 5pm PST for a brief chat before playing the game, then followed up by a short wrap-up chat. See you there!

Should be cool to see how well it performs.

A small unreported drop happened during peak concurrency.

Statistics compared to Monday, February 4th:
Peak concurrency grew 1,166 users, a increase of 2.03%.
Minimum concurrency grew 1,477users, a increase of 4.64%.
Median concurrency grew 773 users, a increase of 1,75%.

Login issues during peak times prevented concurrency to reach a even higher record. Normally peak concurrency is a hour later around 14:40.

Statistics compared to Sunday, February 3rd:
Peak concurrency grew 2,283 users, a increase of 3,75%.
Minimum concurrency grew 1,568 users, a increase of 4.75%.
Median concurrency grew 2,296 users, a increase of 5.09%.

The statistics where unreliable Saturday, from 15:50 to 22:05 we only gathered one or 2 results a hour. Totally for the day it was about 70% of what we normally get. This was the result of more website issues at Linden Lab. Even though, 59,479 is a Saturday concurrency peak record.

Statistics compared to Saturday, February 2nd:
Peak concurrency grew 1,020 users, a increase of 1.74%.
Minimum concurrency grew 2,224 users, a increase of 6.72%.
Median concurrency dropped 4,149 users, a decrease of 8.61%. The median is very much influenced in the gap of results because it happened right after peak concurrency.

The drop after peak concurrency shows that logins where unavailable for a short period last night.

Statistics compared to Thursday, January 31st:
Peak concurrency dropped 554 users, a decrease of 0.96%.
Minimum concurrency grew 1,266 users, a increase of 4.44%.
Median concurrency grew 1.293 users, a increase of 3.10%.