Comments on: “Exploring Reality in Virtual Worlds” with Piet Hut http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/ Crossing Digital Divides - Virtual Realities in "World 2.0" Fri, 16 May 2008 11:15:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: UgoTrade » Blog Archive » NASA, Astrophysicists and Space Enthusiasts in Virtual Worlds http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-19536 UgoTrade » Blog Archive » NASA, Astrophysicists and Space Enthusiasts in Virtual Worlds Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:09:28 +0000 http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-19536 [...] I posted here about my visit to the awesome replica of the International Space Station in Second Life built by Illusion Factory. And how Piet Hut (see more about Piet’s latest Second Life adventures below!) brought his friend, astronaut Ed Lu, into Second Life to visit the International Space Station in Second Life. Ed Lu lived in the real one for a half a year in 2003! [...] [...] I posted here about my visit to the awesome replica of the International Space Station in Second Life built by Illusion Factory. And how Piet Hut (see more about Piet’s latest Second Life adventures below!) brought his friend, astronaut Ed Lu, into Second Life to visit the International Space Station in Second Life. Ed Lu lived in the real one for a half a year in 2003! [...]

]]> By: UgoTrade » 2008 » January » 28 http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-12039 UgoTrade » 2008 » January » 28 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:05:05 +0000 http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-12039 [...] New Forms of Collaboration The biggest problem in computational science, which is quickly becoming all of science, is to find ways to let scientists write software together. (Piet Hut) [...] [...] New Forms of Collaboration The biggest problem in computational science, which is quickly becoming all of science, is to find ways to let scientists write software together. (Piet Hut) [...]

]]> By: Exploring Reality in Virtual Worlds « PacificRim Exchange http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-11867 Exploring Reality in Virtual Worlds « PacificRim Exchange Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:58:51 +0000 http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-11867 [...] “Exploring Reality in Virtual Worlds” with Piet Hut [...] [...] “Exploring Reality in Virtual Worlds” with Piet Hut [...]

]]> By: Open Social How To » “Exploring Reality in Virtual Worlds” with Piet Hut http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-11127 Open Social How To » “Exploring Reality in Virtual Worlds” with Piet Hut Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:49:09 +0000 http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-11127 [...] Original post by UgoTrade [...] [...] Original post by UgoTrade [...]

]]> By: Giulio Prisco http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-11071 Giulio Prisco Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:35:21 +0000 http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-11071 Great article as usual! Here are my observations: http://metaxlr8.net/index.php/site/qwaq_forums_for_virtual_intranets/ I think there is space for both QF and SL: Second Life is meant as a game-like social VR world with an added (still limited) set of groupware features, whereas Qwaq Forums is a virtual Intranet / Extranet for productivity-oriented groupware aimed at professional users. A company or organization may use QF as an internal workspace, training system and meeting space, and SL for public outreach to wider audiences in “fun” game-like settings. Yet it would be interesting to sort of merge the two sets of features at the platform level (one platform for both usage patterns). Perhaps OpenSim? Integrating the groupware features of QF in OpenSim is a challenge, but is certainly doable. Great article as usual! Here are my observations:
http://metaxlr8.net/index.php/site/qwaq_forums_for_virtual_intranets/

I think there is space for both QF and SL: Second Life is meant as a game-like social VR world with an added (still limited) set of groupware features, whereas Qwaq Forums is a virtual Intranet / Extranet for productivity-oriented groupware aimed at professional users. A company or organization may use QF as an internal workspace, training system and meeting space, and SL for public outreach to wider audiences in “fun” game-like settings.

Yet it would be interesting to sort of merge the two sets of features at the platform level (one platform for both usage patterns). Perhaps OpenSim? Integrating the groupware features of QF in OpenSim is a challenge, but is certainly doable.

]]> By: The Daily Graze » Blog Archive » Collaborating in Virtual Worlds http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-10921 The Daily Graze » Blog Archive » Collaborating in Virtual Worlds Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:11:08 +0000 http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-10921 [...] upon Professor Piet Hut’s paper titled Virtual Laboratories and Virtual Worlds by way of UgoTrade. Professor Hut documents his experiences using Qwaq as a meeting and collaboration space. Hut [...] [...] upon Professor Piet Hut’s paper titled Virtual Laboratories and Virtual Worlds by way of UgoTrade. Professor Hut documents his experiences using Qwaq as a meeting and collaboration space. Hut [...]

]]> By: Peter Miller http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-10910 Peter Miller Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:45:32 +0000 http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-10910 There is actually quite a lot of molecule rezzing going on in SL, albeit on a smaller scale than rhodopsin. You can rez a peptide live on IBM Almaden and there is even an SL Molecular Structure Group due to have its first meeting later this month. There is a fledgling database of structure availability/deployment hosted off the wiki at http://secondlifemolecules.wikispaces.com/proteins as well as a script that does a little of the parsing from pdb files. As a personal project I’m hoping to produce a toolkit that makes this kind of build more accessible to teachers and students. We had an informal meeting on ANGEL just before Christmas which I recorded on my blog, http://tidalblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/protein-fest-first.html . It was just great seeing those structures rez! (SL: Graham Mills) There is actually quite a lot of molecule rezzing going on in SL, albeit on a smaller scale than rhodopsin. You can rez a peptide live on IBM Almaden and there is even an SL Molecular Structure Group due to have its first meeting later this month. There is a fledgling database of structure availability/deployment hosted off the wiki at http://secondlifemolecules.wikispaces.com/proteins as well as a script that does a little of the parsing from pdb files. As a personal project I’m hoping to produce a toolkit that makes this kind of build more accessible to teachers and students. We had an informal meeting on ANGEL just before Christmas which I recorded on my blog, http://tidalblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/protein-fest-first.html . It was just great seeing those structures rez! (SL: Graham Mills)

]]> By: Bernardo Alonso http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-10896 Bernardo Alonso Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:17:22 +0000 http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-10896 Another great post. Keep on coming.... thanks for the Piet Hut article link. Another great post. Keep on coming…. thanks for the Piet Hut article link.

]]> By: Astronomy Pictures - Images of moon http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-10813 Astronomy Pictures - Images of moon Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:08:42 +0000 http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/01/15/exploring-reality-in-virtual-worlds-with-piet-hut/#comment-10813 [...] “Exploring Reality in Virtual Worlds” with Piet Hut By admin Science goes back to astronomy, studying the regularity of the heavens, and moderns science started with Galileo. Yet, though astrophysics is the oldest science, it is the youngest laboratory science. Until half a century ago it had no … UgoTrade - http://www.ugotrade.com [...] [...] “Exploring Reality in Virtual Worlds” with Piet Hut By admin Science goes back to astronomy, studying the regularity of the heavens, and moderns science started with Galileo. Yet, though astrophysics is the oldest science, it is the youngest laboratory science. Until half a century ago it had no … UgoTrade - http://www.ugotrade.com [...]

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