Workshop on Virtual Worlds: Second Life & OpenSim: simulations and research Searching the peer reviewed literature across the disciplines (2 hours) with Bernadette Daly Swanson, MLIS (HVX Silverstar in Second Life and OSGrid (OpenSim grid). MHI 289h 4 units: Virtual Reality, Simulation, and Robotics with Alberto Odor, MD Health Informatics Master's Program, University of California, Davis. http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/informatics/masters/ Fall, 2011

1. Workshop on Virtual Worlds:
Second Life & OpenSim

2. Login & accept invitation
Open your Second Life Viewer 2 & login!Open your Second Life Viewer 2 & login!
• Login using same username & password (for creating your avatar)
• Look for the IM & notifications icons (lower right side of screen)
• Open invitation for UC Davis group – Click JOIN
3 ways to reach Davis Island (private)3 ways to reach Davis Island (private)
• Teleport to Med Projects, Davis using landmark sent by HVX Silverstar
• Search your INVENTORY for Med Projects, Davis
• IM someone in group and ask for a teleport
Video: joining UC Davis Private Group

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

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

5. Buy Second Tours Landmarks
for Zero Linden $ (free)
Click to Buy Health & Medicine related landmarks (free)Click to Buy Health & Medicine related landmarks (free)
Search your inventory to locate them
(click to teleport using the landmark)

6. Instructions upon logging in

7. Virtual Worlds: simulations and
research
Simulations & Research

8. Virtual Worlds
Second Life & the opensource
OpenSimulator (OpenSim)

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

10. Persistent 3 Spaces

11. Over 22 million accounts (1
million in 2007)2626

12. www.gridsurvey.com
www.gridsurvey.com

13. Simulating an area 2069.30 km2
=8 times the size of San
Francisco
www.gridsurvey.comwww.gridsurvey.com
2,043.412,043.41

14. 31,575 Regions!!68,248 Second Life Regions68,248 Second Life Regions

15. LSL script wiki
C++ application on Linux OS / LSL
& C# scripting on Mono68,248 Second Life Regions68,248 Second Life Regions

16. Server Architecture, 2009

17. Viewer & Server Stacks with
Simulators

18. Opensource viewer

19. OpenSimulator

20. Second Life public grid and
enterprise server in a box version

21. Host your own Opensimulator
www.opensimulator.org

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

23. Workshop on Virtual Worlds:
Second Life & OpenSim
Ener Hax: I live in Science Land Blog
1. Yes : OpenSim on a USB drive
2. Download Christa Lopes’ Diva Distro : www.simonastick.com
3. Do Do it yourself with Roger

24. Hacking Microsoft’s Kinect & FAASTHacking Microsoft’s Kinect & FAAST
(Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit)
controlling avatars in Second Life and WoW
USC Research by Skip Rizzo (PTSD, etc.)
http://people.ict.usc.edu/~suma/papers/suma-vr2011-faast.pdf
OpenNI - http://www.openni.org/

25. Projects Using Kinect & Second LifeProjects Using Kinect & Second Life
University of Southern California, Institute for Creative TechnologiesUniversity of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies
“Coming Home Project:
Veterans(Second Life)
Healing & PTSD Research
Dr. Alfred “Skip” Rizzo
Embodying an Avatar / Gesture & Emotion
Transferance (Second Life)

26. UC Davis Research in Virtual WorldsUC Davis Research in Virtual Worlds
Health Informatics & Psychiatry - PM Yellowlees, James N Cook, et. al.Health Informatics & Psychiatry - PM Yellowlees, James N Cook, et. al.
PM Yellowlees, JN Cook.PM Yellowlees, JN Cook.
Education about hallucinations using an internet virtual reality system: a qualitative suEducation about hallucinations using an internet virtual reality system: a qualitative su
. Academic Psychiatry. 2006 Nov-Dec 2006, 30(6):534-9. Academic Psychiatry. 2006 Nov-Dec 2006, 30(6):534-9
Peter Yellowlees, James N. Cook, Shayna L. Marks, Daniel Wolfe, Elanor
Mangin.
Can virtual reality be used to conduct mass prophylaxis clinic training? A pilot progra
. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science.
March 2008, 6(1): 36-44.

27. What is Hypergrid?
<a href=“hgtp://otherworld.com@(0,2)Other World Gateway</a><a href=“hgtp://otherworld.com@(0,2)Other World Gateway</a>

28. What is Hypergrid?
Latest article:
via UC-eLinks for UC Davis students, staff and faculty with username & kerberos login ID
Lopes, C.; , "Hypergrid: Architecture and Protocol for Virtual World Interoperability,” Internet
Computing, IEEE , vol.15, no.5, pp.22-29, Sept.-Oct. 2011 doi: 10.1109/MIC.2011.77 and via
web URL:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5871570&isnumber=6015570

29. http://cgvw.ics.uci.edu/
http://cgvw.ics.uci.edu/

30. OpenSimulator (OpenSim)
BioMedical & Rehabilitation Research
OpenSimulator Research at Stanford
http://opensim.stanford.edu
National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research
& SimTK Community –
National NIH Center for Biomedical Computing

31. Build your own Slurl at www.slurl.com
SLurl

32. The avatar will see you now –
24/7

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

34. Collaboration across disciplines
& peer reviewed journal
literature

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

36. 2010 – Web Beta & MESH import
from third party 3D programs or
Google 3D Warehouse (Collada -
.dae) files.

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

38. Mesh file import on mesh beta
grid

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

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

41. Searching for Virtual Palomar West hospital in Viewer 2
or at the Second Life website: www.secondlife.com
Finding Virtual Palomar West
hospital in the SL viewer search
function

42. Building demo & rezzing 3D objects from inventory
Visit the New Citizens Incorporated NCI Kuula:
Help, classes, freebies and sandboxes for building
Building demo & rezzing 3D
objects from inventory

43. Gartner Hype Cycle 1987 - 2012

44. Introduction to Machinima
Workflow with HVX Silverstar
Introduction to Machinima Workflow

45. Introduction to Machinima
Workflow with HVX Silverstar
Preferences, Lip Sync & Camera Controls in Second Life ®Preferences, Lip Sync & Camera Controls in Second Life ®

46. Real World Coffee Break

47. Where is the peer reviewed research?
Health Sciences Libraries
University of California Davis
Where is the peer reviewed
literature?
Ask a Health Sciences Librarian for help

48. JJournal of Virtual Worlds Research (Peer Reviewed, Open Access, Free)ournal of Virtual Worlds Research (Peer Reviewed, Open Access, Free) Health & Healthcare Vol. 2(2)Health & Healthcare Vol. 2(2)
The Journal of Virtual Worlds and Education ($ubscription – butThe Journal of Virtual Worlds and Education ($ubscription – but inagural issue, volume 1(1) is freeinagural issue, volume 1(1) is free))
Peer Reviewed
Journals
on Virtual Worlds
Research and Use in
Education

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

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

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

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

53. 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

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

55. Using Computer Science
database: IEEEXplore
Using IEEEXplore on Computer Science Subject Guide
“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

56. 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
Click on the wrench

57. Using the UC Davis Harvest
catalog to locate 616 items!
Harvest Catalog search:
616 results for subject headings616 results for subject headings
"shared virtual environments" OR "Second Life" OR "virtual reality";"shared virtual environments" OR "Second Life" OR "virtual reality";
Sorted by YearSorted by Year

58. Workshop on Virtual Worlds:
Second Life & OpenSim
TED: Philip Rosedale on Second Life, Serious Play, 2008

59. 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
and
The Internet & the Future of Patient Care
Peter Yellowlees, MD
, MLIS
Second Life Machinima - http://www.youtube.com/hvxsilverstar

60. Playlists for machinima on YouTube
Filmed in Second Life & OpenSimulator
from Fall 2011, two introductory sessions
for MHI214 taken on Davis Island – Nov. 2011
the Training Innovation Center, Imperial College, London
and
Assorted raw machinima mostly about the
SL viewers, orientation and travels with the Health Informatics classes in Second Life
, MLIS
On the Rocky Digital Shores of Davis Island
(from the Health Sciences Libraries’ Blog, Oct.
2009)
See
you in
SL
See
you in
SL