the sim-on-a-stick files have been downloaded nearly 5,000 times and i have heard some great uses of it. this one is awesome, imo, and i was very touched when she wrote me about it!
i mentioned her work in a post (includes a video) a while back, but reading about its actual use is wonderful and i hope you find it as clever as i have =)
here are parts of emails that Beacara sent me this week
You would not have believed your eyes, when you had seen what had happened here during the last two weeks. If I had had a box full of USB-Sticks to sell, I could be rich now.
I live in a small town, about 25000 people live here. The oldest houses are about 800 years old. Every two years these old houses are opening for public 9 days long, and new Art is exhibited in them.
This year my school had the chance to show works that are the result of the Art lessons. To show something a bit more interesting beside drawings, I had the idea with the virtual gallery. To my school it was not quite new, because we have won prizes with machinima in 2010 and 2011.
For 9 days, I have been presenting my gallery, each day from 11am to 18pm (7 hours without a break). About 1500 people passed me and many people took the gallery home on a USB-Stick, about 60 to 100. USB-Sticks were sold out in my town!
Simonastick worked perfectly, the virtual gallery had almost 1gb, Imprudence worked with shadow-rendering, no crashes, no problems at all.
Everyone loved it, from 6 years old up to 85. Younger people had less problems of course, and they liked to use the spacenavigator to have a look at the artworks. Most of them have never heard about Second Life. And many teachers were interested. Some came back the next day, although they had to drive 1 and a half hour by car, with their USB-Sticks and those of their friends.
It shows what could be! And maybe, some of us (you and me and others) like to collect things for a Simonastick-Version with more content to make it usable like a toolkit, with a little warehouse with more scripts, textures, some buildings and more. That’s what my visitors asked for.
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Part of the success was also the fact that the Imprudence Viewer can be used in German. I’ll start creating some things, another idea is a learning-parcour (how to walk, how to use the camera and so on) that can be deleted when you don’t need it anymore. One of my visitors was a ballet-teacher, who is interested in motion capture to simulate a new choreography. Never know if it will go on, but the beginning is made and any help is good for newbies :-)
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I gave away the USB-Gallery with a collection of useful portable apps:
1. Gimp portable
2. Blender portable
3. Camstudio portable
4. Irfan view portable
5. PhotoFiltre portable
6. Virtualdub portable
7. Openoffice portable and
8. Texture studio, which is not a portable app, but works without problems on the stick (to make seamless textures)So you have a powerful collection of tools to create at once what you want: take a photo, change size and format, make it seamless and ta-da! you have your tapestry!
there you have it, a fantastic use of OpenSim and in a way completely impossible to do with Second Life. not only did Beacara do this wonderfully creative concept but she also enhanced the “stick experience” by adding those other great tools
most excellent! if you have a nifty use or find it adds to your life, drop us a note! =)
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20 Oct 11 at 1:18 pm
:-)
Beacara
20 Oct 11 at 1:33 pm
*stands up and applauds Beacara*
Sarge Misfit
20 Oct 11 at 1:35 pm
Very nice work, Ener and Beacara. I love to hear about this kind of OpenSimulator use!
Justin Clark-Casey
20 Oct 11 at 1:40 pm
hi Justin, i am so glad you saw this example = this is all you, the other developers, and Beacara
i just want people to see the joy i have in it and not be scared to try it. it can all be very intimidating to non-techy people, including me, so anything that i can do to help make it approachable is my desire =)
Ener Hax
20 Oct 11 at 8:45 pm
*stands and applauds also!*
This is a wonderful, creative use of Opensim. And I like the idea of creating a portable toolkit/warehouse.
Kimika Ying
21 Oct 11 at 6:02 pm
Thank you all!
Joy and fun – that is also a way to create a better world. I’m sure.
Beacara
22 Oct 11 at 5:54 am
Great Post .. thanks for sharing
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24 Oct 11 at 10:03 am
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I have chance to help create a ‘track’ for next year’s conference put on by http://alliedmedia.org. The conference deals with using media to create a more just peaceful world. Last year’s conference was attended by 1800 people. You can see the web site to find out more. It had one session on the use of ‘Games’. I would like to expand their conception to include virtual reality in general. Got any ideas of whom else I might contact to get involved – any example’s you can think of showing opensim being used this way would also be helpful.
Thanks.
casias falta
28 Oct 11 at 11:33 am
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