Vesuvius at VWBPE 09

We were a vendor this past weekend at the Virtual World Best Practices in Education 09, and had a great time meeting people and going to presentations. Lots of insightful stuff, which we hope have been blogged about around the web. 😛

For now we have these textures we made for our vendor spot.

Google Island

Created a reproduction of part of Google’s Mountain View, CA campus for the 2007 Google Zeitgeist event. It included 3D representations of Google technologies, a networking lounge area, a speakers hall with information on all speakers and the ability to message them and creation of an interactive HUD that contained this info, a map and other event tools for attendees.

This was an event specific project and unfortunately is not still available to view. You can view images of the build here and here.

Articles about the project (multilingual):
Kzero
Ambling
Mindblizzard
Metaverse.lePressing
MaxFear

Virtual Web Symposium

Eduverse flyerThere 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’)