Workshop on Virtual Worlds: Second Life and OpenSim (Nov. 8, 2011) UC Davis

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Workshop on Virtual Worlds: Second Life & OpenSim: simulations and researchSearching 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 Roboticswith Alberto Odor, MDHealth Informatics Master's Program, University of California, Davis.http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/informatics/masters/Fall, 2011

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Workshop on Virtual Worlds: Second Life & OpenSim

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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

US$ 1,398,663.00

Transactions in the past 24 hours

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

World Map

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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)

Instructions upon logging in

Virtual Worlds: simulations and research

Simulations & Research

Virtual WorldsSecond Life & the opensource OpenSimulator (OpenSim)

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

Wikipedia & Journal of Virtual World Research

Persistent 3 Spaces

Over 22 million accounts (1 million in 2007)2626

www.gridsurvey.com

www.gridsurvey.com

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

Francisco

www.gridsurvey.comwww.gridsurvey.com

2,043.412,043.41

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

LSL script wiki

C++ application on Linux OS / LSL & C# scripting on Mono 68,248 Second Life Regions68,248 Second Life Regions

Viewer & Server Stacks with Simulators

Opensource viewer

OpenSimulator

Second Life public grid and enterprise server in a box version

Host your own Opensimulator

www.opensimulator.org

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

networked)

Hacking Microsoft’s Kinect & FAAST Hacking 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.pdfOpenNI - http://www.openni.org/

Projects Using Kinect & Second LifeProjects Using Kinect & Second LifeUniversity 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)

UC Davis Research in Virtual WorldsUC Davis Research in Virtual WorldsHealth 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 survey. 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 program. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science. March 2008, 6(1): 36-44.

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>

What is Hypergrid?

Latest article: via UC-eLinks for UC Davis students, staff and faculty with username & kerberos login IDLopes, 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

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

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

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

Build your own Slurl at www.slurl.com

SLurl

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

www.slconvention.org

Education pre-conference, annual Second Life Community Conference.

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: The Internet & the future of patient care

MHI214 Class, 2009- 2010 with UC Davis Extension

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

Building demo & rezzing 3D objects from inventoryVisit the New Citizens Incorporated NCI Kuula:

Help, classes, freebies and sandboxes for building

Building demo & rezzing 3D objects from inventory

Gartner Hype Cycle 1987 - 2012

Introduction to MachinimaWorkflow with HVX Silverstar

Introduction to Machinima Workflow

Introduction to MachinimaWorkflow with HVX Silverstar

Preferences, Lip Sync & Camera Controls in Second Life ®

Real World Coffee Break

Where is the peer reviewed research?

Health Sciences LibrariesUniversity of California Davis

Where is the peer reviewed literature?

Ask a Health Sciences Librarian for help

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)The Journal of Virtual Worlds and Education ($ubscription – but The Journal of Virtual Worlds and Education ($ubscription – but inagural issue, volume 1(1) is free))

Peer Reviewed Journals

on Virtual Worlds Research and Use in

Education

Health Sciences Libraries homepage & All libraries home page

University Librarywww.lib.ucdavis.edu

Health Sciences Librarieswww.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

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 InterfaceEducation, NursingSchizophrenia, 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/18386971UC-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-compute interface nursing teaching public health

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 campusLocate full results via IEEEXplore database

full search results: first log into VPN if off campusfind 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

Click on the wrench

Using the UC Davis Harvest catalog to locate 616 items!

Harvest Catalog search: 616 results for subject headings 616 results for subject headings

"shared virtual environments" OR "Second Life" OR "virtual reality";"shared virtual environments" OR "Second Life" OR "virtual reality"; Sorted by Year Sorted by Year

Workshop on Virtual Worlds: Second Life & OpenSim

TED: Philip Rosedale on Second Life, Serious Play, 2008

Downloadable hyperlinked Powerpoint available on Slideshare.com

Watch the workshop's visual track on YouTube

Health Informatics website UC Davis Medical CenterHands-on Workshop for:

Virtual Reality, Simulation & Robotics CourseAlberto Odor, MD

and The Internet & the Future of Patient Care

Peter Yellowlees, MD

, MLIS

Second Life Machinima - http://www.youtube.com/hvxsilverstar

Playlists for machinima on YouTubeFilmed 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 - 2008-2011

, 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

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