[Opensim-users] OT: Virtual Berlin Gallery Weekend

[Toni Alatalo]

A virtual version of Berlin Gallery Weekend 2012, a set of contemporary art exhibitions in Berlin, is open for public access via http://vgwb.spinningwire.com/ . Site of the event itself is http://www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de/ (has also a link to the virtual version).

It is not made with Opensim so this is a bit off-topic, but anyhow is made with open source metaverse tools so fits in the broadest definition of opensim :)

One particular point can be interesting news for Opensim users: this service provides also simple browser based access to the world, using a client made with Flash (11.1 or better) and the Away3d open source engine. It uses hardware rendering when a suitable GFX card is available -- otherwise falls back to software rendering, which works basically anywhere. This is a variant in the series of 'WebNaali' experiments, which we started with WebGL and WebSockets earlier. I've been thinking that these client techs might be interesting for Opensim users too -- it would be quite simple to connect those clients with simple protocols to Opensim servers too, if someone wants that. In this case the Flash client actually uses XMPP for all the networking: authentication and chat but even the movement messages (the design for the 'lightweight presences' is described in http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend-dev/browse_thread/thread/c372483032992c21?fwc=1 )

The Flash thing is dubbed 'light version' on the website, whereas the Tundra version (requires installing Tundra client) is the 'full version'. The scene and the art pics etc. are identical in both, but in Tundra you get normal human avatars and there's public voice etc. (the differences are more about configuration than technical).

This blog post has the basic info + a video and the links too: http://realxtend.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/51-exhibitions-in-berlin-and-realxtend/

A kind of interesting parallel to what Melanie was posting about having Opensim sessions in the real Berlin -- perhaps folks going there can spot some interesting RL galleries from this virtual world :)

~Toni
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