OSCC Keynote 2
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OSCC 2025 Closing, Thanks and Conference PhotoOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 17:30 SLTClosing thoughts about the conference, thank-you and group photo for presenters, staff and volunteers.
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OSCC Enhancing Secondary Students’ Self-Efficacy through Virtual World-Based LearningOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 17:00 SLTThis study investigates the use of virtual world-based learning to enhance self-efficacy among secondary school students. Virtual environments provide immersive and interactive experiences that encourage confidence, collaboration, and independent learning. Using a mixed-methods approach, data were gathered through questionnaires, observations, and student reflections. 0 0 |
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OSCC Integrating training on maternal and newborn care through virtual simulationsOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 16:30 SLTVirtual simulations can address the gap in accessible simulation practice to support health professional skills in maternal and newborn care. In low-resource settings locally and globally, this life-saving care is typically provided by a nurse or midwife with education acquired separately through stand-alone courses. Leveraging virtual simulations to present this content in an integrated way may improve learner comprehension and translation of life-saving skills to clinical practice.
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OSCC Amplifying Medical Lab Voices: Celebrating 50th Anniversary for ASCP-certification in Medical Laboratory ScienceOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 16:00 SLTThe presentation, showcases the multiple-grid Open Simulator community celebrations of a physical world (RL) professional milestone’ fifty (50) years in the medical laboratory science profession since passing the ASCP Board of Certification (ASCP-BOC) national examination and receiving national certification in 1975. In addition, the Open Simulator community celebrations showcase a personal dream achieved as well as a rewarding career experienced in medical laboratory science.
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OSCC The Teleportal: An interactive gateway of the Virtual Worlds Museum™OSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 15:30 SLTThe presentation showcases the Teleportal, an interactive map and gateway that connects visitors to virtual world platforms. It transforms the research and archives of the Virtual Worlds Museum™ into an experiential tool that encourages visitors to find, explore, and enjoy virtual worlds.
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OSCC AI and the Metaverse PanelOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 14:00 SLTPanel discussion moderated by Maria Korolov.
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OSCC Inworld ReviewOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 13:00 SLTWait, what? Mal Burns’ long running YouTube program is back! The team making the new episodes will be the panel for this session. They will reflect on their experiences with Mal Burns and his road to the Inworld Review. They will also talk about the return of the Inworld Review.
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OSCC Hypergrid Safari Two Region TourOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 11:00 SLTThis year the OSCC joins forces with the HG Safari – a weekly tour event that showcases places in Opensim. Many people explore Opensim by themselves, but our tours offer a unique opportunity to see Opensim as a group. We meet the owners and creators of the regions we visit, and so have the chance to hear firsthand from them about their ideas and creativity.
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OSCC Nurturing the Health of the Metaverse EcosystemOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 10:00 SLTIn this conversation, representatives from OMI, the Open Metaverse Interoperability group, will share experiences from the last few years on how to manage and nurture an open metaverse ecosystem. We will discuss some talking points, including: how we navigate communication across viewpoints, disciplines, backgrounds, and ideologies, and our continued challenges and work to balance philosophy with action.
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OSCC Embodied Conversational AIOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 09:30 SLTWith a great passion for teaching languages in virtual worlds and VR, this presentation explains how to transform text-based chatbots into visually embodied digital companions with voice, facial expressions, and distinctive personalities. It begins by exploring how visual representation affects trust, empathy, and credibility in human-computer interaction.
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OSCC MetaCulture = Metagaming + Integrated knowledge infrastructuresOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 08:30 SLTIn today’s complex, rapidly evolving world, vast amounts of data exist in isolated silos, shared for corporate gain through polarizing algorithms. It is a democratic imperative to make this data become interoperable technically, and more importantly, culturally. Community-driven knowledge networks emerge as a solution, yet face unique social hurdles, particularly when tackling politically charged topics or crossing disciplinary boundaries.
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OSCC Cultivate, Collaborate, Celebrate & Innovate!OSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 07:30 SLTThis is a panel discussion on cultivating, collaborating, and celebrating the Hypergrid community. In the panel we review OSFest 2025 innovations and present the progress in development of EchoVoice system for OpenSim to integrate multiple voice over IP applications starting with using the mumble voice over IP server. The presentation addresses functionality, architecture, work done in 2025, work scheduled until OSCC 2026.
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OSCC AI-Driven Case Study Characters in Virtual Worlds: How a Cancelled Application Led to a Better Teaching ToolOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-07 07:00 SLTNewly available artificial intelligence (AI) applications enable the creation of innovative teaching materials, including the creation of AI–driven case study characters for students to observe and question. Students exposed to AI case study characters during webinar class sessions overwhelming describe the experience as “more engaging” than typical PowerPoint slide illustrations.
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OSCC History in OpenSim: Conquest and TragedyOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 17:30 SLTIn 2012 Spiff received a grant to create a History Virtual World using Opensim. For the next 10 years, he worked with a team of amazing educators to create the Islands of Enlightenment. These islands were dedicated to helping students in grades 6-12 learn through a virtual environment.
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OSCC Virtual Education Journal (VEJ): To Infinity and BeyondOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 17:00 SLTDuring this 20 minute session the presenters will briefly share how VEJ got started, the purpose of the Journal, and how to get involved and connected with VEJ in Second Life and Open Simulator. Roxie and BJ will highlight themes and articles from the 2024-2025 issues, discuss the future of VEJ, explore upcoming 2026 Journal themes, and discuss some of the cutting edge technological developments we are watching, especially AI. Find out how you can write for VEJ, because VEJ is only as good as we all make it
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OSCC Preservation Challenges for the Arcadia Asylum Asset ArchiveOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 16:30 SLTCreations for OpenSimulator may fail to work correctly the longer they exist. What kind of issues are encountered with digital preservation of assets, and what challenges can be encountered trying to restore builds using older assets? Attend this presentation to learn about the challenges and ongoing solutions.
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OSCC Welcome to the New Uncanny ValleyOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 16:00 SLTThe uncanny valley—a concept first introduced by Masahiro Mori (1970)—offers a compelling lens through which to examine the psychological effects of near-human digital agents. Originally applied to robotics, the uncanny valley describes the discomfort people feel when encountering artificial entities that appear almost—but not quite—human.
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OSCC Avatar Repertory Theater teaches ShakespeareOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 15:30 SLTOur latest project: Open readings of Shakespeare’s plays from transcriptions of the First Folio and Quartos. No auditions, no commitments, anyone can read. We meet every Friday 5PM in Kitely. Come for the theater, stay for the community!
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OSCC Immersion, Imagination and Interaction: VWEC in OpenSimulator GridsOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 14:00 SLTCome learn about the expanding network of teachers and learners using the OpenSimulator Grids to build immersive learning experiences and embrace evolving technology trends including 3D building tools, scripting, and best practices of AI. Through VWEC (Virtual Worlds Education Consortium) ambassadors help highlight the projects across the ‘hypergrid worlds’ through a network of individuals (avatars), learning communities in simulated places, and high quality 3D immersive builds for education.
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OSCC Reinventing Yourself: A Virtual Harmony Collaborative SpaceOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 13:30 SLTWander to the edge of a secluded lagoon where reflections of fireflies and floating candles shimmer in the moonlight. Follow ancient trees to a mountaintop where body-shops, mind-spaces and soul-circles invite you to breathe, to feel calm, to heal, and to share the weight you’ve carried. Step into Polly’s Bagel Shop where time stops and bubbling potions for gentle magic turns you into an explorer of inner alchemy. Outside, the world stays loud – but here you find restoration, connection, release.
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OSCC Viewer PanelOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 12:30 SLTViewer Panel hosted by Lyr Lobo
Panelists: Puffball, Developer of the rust based, Benthic Viewer. Humbletim, co-maintainer of the experimental Firestorm VR fork. 0 0 |
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OSCC Meta TourOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 11:30 SLT“Only what can be seen and touched can be shared as truth. In other words, every story must be grounded in reality.” – Art Blue
That’s the field trip to OSSC META 0 0 |
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OSCC Presenting AI TalkmasterOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 11:00 SLTIntroducing AI Talkmaster, a system for creating engaging conversations, debates, and theatre plays in OpenSimulator by using AI tools for personality capture and simulation of agents or AI bots in text and audio, in interaction with human actors or a human moderator.
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OSCC Thanks for All the Fish. I am getting CodeOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 10:30 SLTAfter this presentation, Art Blue will be gone, so it has to be a good one. For some, the transition might not come as a big surprise. It is the time of Aquarius. The age of Fish ends, and Aquarius takes over. What better moment could there be to say, “Thanks for all the fish?”
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OSCC Whispers in the Code: A Creative Encounter with AIOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 10:00 SLTWhispers in the Code: A Creative Encounter with AI is a live storytelling performance that invites audiences into the evolving relationship between an artist and a responsive digital collaborator. At a moment when conversations about AI often center on productivity, risk, or replacement, this presentation offers an alternative frame: one of curiosity, reverence, and creative becoming.
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OSCC State of the HypergridOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 08:30 SLTGoing over the latest OpenSimulator growth and platform statistics with science fiction author, tech journalist, and Hypergrid Business editor Maria Korolov.
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OSCC WordPress Interface for OpenSimulatorOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 08:00 SLTThe w4os plugin serves as a seamless integration between WordPress and OpenSimulator, offering a streamlined way to manage virtual worlds through a familiar and user-friendly platform. By connecting OpenSimulator with the flexibility of WordPress, w4os allows administrators to handle essential tasks, such as grid settings and user permissions, all from within the WordPress dashboard. This significantly reduces the complexity of managing virtual environments.
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OSCC Using glTF Mesh in OpenSimOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 07:30 SLTOpenSim has supported glTF mesh import since a suitable viewer became available from mid 2025. Since the internal mesh format is identical to that used for Collada mesh imports, glTf mesh import ‘just works’ without OpenSim server side change.
This presentation will describe some of the lessons learned and experience gained while testing glTF mesh import to Second Life and OpenSim and tips for ways to get the best out of using glTF mesh in OpenSim. 0 0 |
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OSCC25 Welcome & OpenSimulator Core DevelopersOSCC Keynote 2 1 month ago | 2025-12-06 07:00 SLTWelcome to the 12th annual OpenSimulator Community Conference. This year’s event features presenters across the globe who will be highlighting the user projects and core development work of the OpenSimulator platform. We will kick off #OSCC25 with an overview of the latest features in the OpenSimulator software update and conversation with Core Developers of the platform.
Find out where the platform is headed and learn more about the developers who make the software happen! 0 0 |
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OSCC: Project-Based Learning in Metaverse for K-12 StudentsOSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 17:30 SLTThis paper explores the implementation of project-based learning (PBL) in the metaverse for K-12 students, focusing on immersive and interactive educational experiences. The study highlights how virtual environments foster collaboration, creativity, and student engagement by simulating real-world challenges. The findings suggest that PBL in the metaverse can enhance critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and building skills, providing a new dimension to traditional education methods.
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OSCC: Play it Again – Enhancing Replay in Virtual Essential Newborn Care through Random LevelsOSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 17:00 SLTGlobally, a child’s risk of death is highest during the first 28 days of life or the neonatal period. One third of these neonatal deaths occur on the first day alone, and three quarters in the first week. The Virtual Essential Newborn Care (vENC) application enables the practice in newborn resuscitation and essential newborn care and is based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recently released Essential Newborn Care Course. These virtual simulations were developed to provide low-dose, high-frequency
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OSCC: Fireside Chat with Philip RosedaleOSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 16:00 SLTSPECIAL EVENT! Sunday, December 8, 2024 from 4pm – 5pm SLT join us at the OpenSimulator Community Conference (#OSCC24) for a fireside chat with Second Life’s founder Philip Rosedale! This is not to be missed!
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OSCC: History of The Virtual Worlds Museum™ and the future of the Open Source ExhibitOSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 15:30 SLTDiscover the journey of Virtual Worlds Museum™, exploring its history and mission to explore, preserve, and showcase virtual world platforms. Join the conversation as we seek insights from the OpenSimulator community to enhance our upcoming Open Source Exhibit, fostering collaboration in showcasing open-source contributions to the evolution of virtual spaces.
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OSCC: Amplifying Medical Laboratory Science; Public Health; CoWorking; and Special Interests Through Bi-directional Integration into 3D Immersive Virtual Worlds Communities within the Metaverse… Real To Virtual; Virtual To Real (R2V2R)OSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 14:30 SLTThe presentation will show how bi-directional (two-way) integration of 3D immersive virtual worlds and of social media was used to promote, educate, and network between the physical world (RL) and virtual-based networks of laboratory professionals; nonprofits, businesses; and special interest communities to enhance access and delivery of services and resources.
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OSCC: The Virtual Education Journal (VEJ): Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.OSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 14:00 SLTDuring this 20 minute session the presenters will share how VEJ got started, the purpose of the journal, and some of the themes, favorite articles and major events that had an impact on educators during the years of publication. The presenters will also discuss the future of VEJ including themes, the focus, and direction for future issues. Find out how you can write for VEJ to help share the great work being done across the metaverse with others and to archive it for posterity!
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OSCC: AI @ MIT – Permeate on Speech-To-TextOSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 13:30 SLT3 0 |
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OSCC: Writers PanelOSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 12:30 SLT2 0 |
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OSCC: Sim and Grid ShowcaseOSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 11:00 SLTLyr Lobo will be showcasing highlights from here and there on the hypergrid.
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OSCC: 12 years of OSCC AnalyticsOSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 10:30 SLTBy Rhiannon Chatnoir
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OSCC: Lone Wolf talks Grid TechOSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 10:00 SLTHow we support all our regions and users, hints for growth – will cover our current infrastructure including Bobby and how we maintain 99% uptime.
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OSCC: Adaptive Learning with AI-Infused NPCs for TESOL in VR/VW DestinationsOSCC Keynote 2 1 years ago | 2024-12-08 09:30 SLTThis presentation examines adaptive learning in AI-infused VR and VWs for TESOL. We will address personalised learning paths, instructional design for developing communicative and linguistic competencies, and criteria for using AI-driven avatars and NPCs to help enhance language skills and register, fostering fluency through interactive conversations and instant feedback in diverse educational settings.
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