Workshop on Virtual Worlds: Second Life & OpenSim (for Virtual Reality, Simulations & Robotics course, UC Davis)

Workshop on Virtual Worlds: Second Life & OpenSim

Login & accept invitation Open your Second Life Viewer 2 & login! Accept your invitation to the UC Davis group in the IM & notifications tab that is located at the lower right side of screen. You will also receive a landmark for the private Davis and Prophylaxis Islands (or use the links from the blog on next screen to reach the islands). Note: you can use this same username & password to log into the Second Life web site to set up account to purchase money or land or the paid account in order to lease land. https://id.secondlife.com/openid/login

Use Slurls from Web or map server to reach Davis Island Ben’s Blog: Library Studios with links to Second Life locations for Health Informatics workshop: http://machinimalibrarians.blogspot.com Using SLurls from the web to reach the Second Life web based map server http://maps.secondlife.com Davis Island (private island). Clicking on the orange visit button launches the Second Life Viewer 2 on your computer. Second Life Quickstart Guide (help with the user interface.

World Map World Map available in Second Life Viewer (World | World map) or on the web. Mini local map also available in SL viewer.

Avatar names for the class arwaziad Avatar names for VR, Simulation & Robotics course

Instructions upon logging in

Virtual Worlds: simulations and research Simulations & Research

Second Life & the opensource OpenSimulator (OpenSim) Virtual Worlds

Wikipedia & Journal of Virtual World Research Journal of Virtual World Research Health & Healthcare (vol. 2, no. 2)

Persistent 3 Spaces

Over 22 million accounts (1 million in 2007)

Simulating an area 2069.30 km2 =8 times the size of San Francisco

www.gridsurvey.com www.gridsurvey.com

Transactions in the past 24 hours US$ 1,398,663.00

31,575 Regions!!

C++ application on Linux OS / LSL & C# scripting on Mono LSL script wiki

Server Architecture, 2009

Opensource viewer

OpenSimulator

Gartner Hype Cycle 1987 - 2012

Second Life public grid and enterprise server in a box version

www.opensimulator.org Host your own Opensimulator

OpenSim on a USB drive (run on your own computer – not networked) Install OpenSim on a USB drive

Viewer & Server Stacks with Simulators

SLurl Build your own Slurl at www.slurl.com

The avatar will see you now – 24/7

Research in Virtual Worlds – see UC Davis Institutional Review Board IRB site at UC Davis

Collaboration across disciplines & peer reviewed journal literature

Education pre-conference, annual Second Life Community Conference. Education pre-conference www.slconvention.org

2010 – Web Beta & MESH import from third party 3D programs or Google 3D Warehouse (Collada - .dae) files.

Getting into SL as guest using the web beta (Safari browser or Firefox, etc.)

Mesh file import on mesh beta grid

Technologies Forward.. What’s ahead? HTML5 demo – Try out some of the new features interactive browser support, video, 3D & data through APIs

MHI214 Class, 2009- 2010 with UC Davis Extension MHI214 Class: The Internet & the future of patient care

Finding Virtual Palomar West hospital in the SL viewer search function Searching for Virtual Palomar West hospital in viewer

Building demo & rezzing 3D objects from inventory Building demo & rezzing 3D objects from inventory Visit Library Studios 2 where we did building demo and pulled out houses from inventory, etc.

Real World Coffee Break

Ahhhhh! Health Sciences Libraries – Where is the peer reviewed literature? Health Sciences Libraries Where is the peer reviewed literature?

Health Sciences Libraries homepage & All libraries home page University Library www.lib.ucdavis.edu Health Sciences Libraries www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl

VPN (virtual private network) logon from off campus VPN to login from off campus (if in Citrix, open a new browser window for VPN)

Logging in through the VPN – Subject Guides (Computer Science & Medicine, professional) Choose Subject Guides : Computer Science or Medicine

Using Medical Subject Headings (MESH) in PubMed database Choose PUBMED (National Library of Medicine) from the Databases A-Z list or from the Health Sciences Library homepage Search using MESH terms: User-Computer Interface Education, Nursing Schizophrenia, etc.

Journal article by Peter Yellowlees, MD: Using the gold UC-eLinks to locate the article through the UC Davis journal subscriptions Pubmed Abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18386971 UC-eLinks: UCeLinks (gold button top right side) to view UC Davis subscription to journal

User-computer interface subject heading MESH (medical subject headings) shown: user-computer interface nursing teaching public health

Using Computer Science database: IEEEXplore Using IEEEXplore on Computer Science Subject Guide for articles on virtual worlds “ Second Life” OR “virtual worlds” AND (“server architecture” OR healthcare) Log into VPN if off campus Locate full results via IEEEXplore database full search results: first log into VPN if off campus find via Google Scholar (uc davis) Via Google Scholar

Setting your Google Scholar preferences to work with UC Davis subscriptions and EndNote Google Scholar Preferences ( scholar preferences ) to work with University of California Davis & Endnote

Using the UC Davis Harvest catalog to locate 616 items! Harvest Catalog search: 616 results for subject headings "shared virtual environments" OR "Second Life" OR "virtual reality"; Sorted by Year

Downloadable hyperlinked powerpoint available on Slideshare.com Watch the workshop's visual track on YouTube Health Informatics website UC Davis Medical Center Hands-on Workshop for: Virtual Reality, Simulation & Robotics Course Alberto Odor, MD & research of Peter Yellowlees, MD , MLIS

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Workshop on Virtual Worlds: Second Life & OpenSim (for Virtual Reality, Simulations & Robotics course, UC Davis)

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