IndieMetaverse 12/7/2011

Event Schedule:

10AM ET - See how RSU uses Jibe, with Administrator Pat Hughes, for continuing adult education. http://www.flickr.com/photos/reactiongrid/sets/72157625149327558/ by watching here http://livestream.com/reactiongrid .

11AM ET - Andrew Polito gives a tour of his online language course which uses Jibe as a visual component as a recreation of Chinese landmarks.  Featuring dynamically created classrooms integrated with a learning management system. http://mylanguage360.com .  Watch here http://livestream.com/reactiongrid .

12PM ET - Take a tour of OpenSim being used for educators with Marc Conrad http://sl.perisic.com/IndieMetaverse/ .  Login to ReactionGrid (www.reactiongrid.com click "Join to register" ) and use this SLURL when inworld http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Bedfordia/128/128/24 or search for "New Bedfordia" or just "New" using the map or view here http://livestream.com/reactiongrid . http://perisic.com/marc/

1PM ET - Educational virtual world work with Matthew Worwood using OpenSim. Watch here http://livestream.com/reactiongrid .

2PM ET - The use of Jibe and Unity 3D in Cultural Heritage Simulations
Presenter: John Fillwalk
Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts [IDIA Lab}
Ball State University

This presentation will present a current simulation project from the Institute for DIgital Intermedia Arts at Ball State University, developed using Unity 3D and Jibe by Reaction Grid. John Fillwalk, Director of IDIA Lab will discuss a multi-user virtual environment interpreting Hadrian's Villa - an ancient Roman site in Tivoli, Italy. For this project IDIA Lab is developing a solar tracking interface connecting a NASA/JPL database to Jibe/Unity to control the position of sun in 130 CE, a custom avatar with motion captured gestures, dynamic weather systems, and native vegetation and terrain models. This project is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation through research of Dr. Bernard Frischer, Director of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory at the University of Virginia.

Watch here http://livestream.com/reactiongrid .

3:30PM ET - See our integration with virtual worlds and robots.  http://reactiongrid.com/unity3d/systemic or watch here http://livestream.com/reactiongrid .