SLMOOC 2017 session by Dr. Cynthia Calongne (aka Lyr Lobo) introduced the Hypergrid and travel through OpenSim. The session included a few getting started tips and links for the Hypergrid Safari, and exploring OpenSim for educational use.

1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Opensim
Image of The Port by Lyr Lobo
At The Air University Metaverse
Dr. Cynthia Calongne
Colorado Technical University
Colorado Community Colleges Online

2. Topics
• See the World – Your Way!
• Why use Opensim?
• Define Your identity
• Appearance – New to Mesh?
• Traveling via the Hypergrid
• The Hypergrid Safari
• The Quest for Content
• Resources
• OARs
• Trivia game

3. Set Your Environment
• World Menu on the top menubar
• Environment Editor - near the bottom
• Customize my environment
• Fixed Sky
• Use the drop down menu and scroll near the bottom
– [TOR] SUNSET Bangkok 2
– [TOR] SUNRISE Fine Scottish Day
– [TOR] SUNSET Oriental 2

4. Why Use Opensim?
• Convenience and Cost
– Open source
– Free to visit, many grids, countries, & communities
– Low cost to setup and use regions
– K-12 students
• Community & other educators – you are not alone!
– Many grids, OpenSimulator Community Conference, Kitely
• Content – educators, shopping, sims to visit, OARs
– Load .oars (Opensim Archives), Load .iars (an inventory folder)
– Save your .oars and .iars for use in other worlds or at home
• Install Opensim on a PC at home for curriculum setup
– Load your OAR on an Opensim region when ready to use

5. Define Your Identity

6. How We Age -- 22 years in VR

7. Getting Started wearing Mesh
• At a recent SLMOOC 2017 event
• New Opensim users wore mesh clothing
• To wear mesh clothing use the Add command
– To add each item
– Otherwise, you may wear only one item
• Tips for new avatars wearing mesh (next slide)

8. How to get started wearing mesh
Underclothes are my friend! *laughs*

9. When you enter a new
world, right click the
Clothing folder and click on
New Clothes & select
New undershirt
New Underpants
Right click & wear them
(For a smaller t-shirt)
Right click and Select
Appearance
Edit Outfit
Select the tool symbol on
the right of your Undershirt
Set the sleeve to 0
& color to black

10. Right Click & Add Mesh
In this example, the mesh is worn
on the right hand.
If you use wear, you only wear
one mesh item.

11. Alpha Layers Hide Your Body
Right click and Add them

12. How to Use the Hypergrid
• Grid list: http://www.outworldz.com/hyperica/gridswide.htm
• Start on a Hypergrid-enabled Opensim world
• Open the World Map – for example, to visit the OSCC regions:
• Search for cc.opensimulator.org:8002 & click the Find button
– In some viewers, you do not add http:// -- it adds it for you
– When the red arrow moves to it, click Teleport
– After the world rezzes, use your World Map to search for OSCC
– Visit the OSCC Shopping Zone or the OSCC Expo 3
Hypergrid designed by Dr. Crista Lopes
OpenSimulator designed by the OpenSim Core Developers

13. Traveling via the Hypergrid
• Explore with the Hypergrid Safari on Wednesdays
– Blog: https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/
– Join: https://hgsafari.blogspot.com/p/how-to-join-safari.html
– Facebook images, group and Google groups
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/hgsafari/
• https://www.facebook.com/HGSafari/
• https://plus.google.com/communities/106546614275441833437
– Search for the #Opensimfreebieoftheday
• Click on Google images to see the free Opensim content

14. Join a Hypergrid Safari Tour
The Hypergrid Safari is every Wednesday and tours three sims
It starts at 21.00 to midnight, Central European Time
– 12-3.00pm SLT, aka Pacific Time
– They meet on hgsafari sim on Francogrid
– If you have an avatar on a Hypergrid-enabled grid, use the address
hg.francogrid.org:80:hgsafari in your World Map and click Find
– Have fun!

15. Resources
OpenSimulator – Download and Install on a PC
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Download
1. Download the .zip file under the Current Release
2. Unzip, open the Bin folder, and Run Opensim.exe
3. A console window opens. Let it run. It pauses in a few minutes.
4. For most questions, use the default (enter key) except
1. Add a region name, an estate name, & if you do not want to be
Test User, a Name and Last Name. Add a simple password.
5. In your Opensim version of Firestorm, Singularity or your favorite
Third Party Viewer, log into Localhost:9000
6. You begin as Ruth, a starting avatar.
7. Download an .oar (a region with terrain & content)

16. Resources: OARs for your Opensim Region
• OARs are entire regions of shopping malls and scenes.
• After an Oar (or .tgz) loads, you can shop and customize your avatar.
• Zadaroo
– OARS: http://zadaroo.com/?page_id=1588 in .tgz format (zipped)
– Scroll down to see images and ratings; download the Welcome Center.
– Welcome Center http://zadaroo.com/?page_id=1687 is 6MB
• Save the .tgz or .oar file in your OpensimBin folder
– Use the Load oar [filename] command in your console
– Archive Commands http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Server_Commands
• To load this oar, type => Load oar WelcomeCenter.tgz
– Watch it load a few assets at a time. If you are online, fly up and watch.
• Visit your new region. OARs replace the current region.
• IARs are a folder in an inventory.

17. OARs and Resources
• For more content:
• Quantum Grids http://quantumgrids.com/content-for-opensim/
• Outworldz: http://www.outworldz.com/
• OpenSimulator Community Conference
– http://conference.opensimulator.org/2016/program/
• Join the ISTE group in Second Life or VWBPE for news

18. Set up a Trivia Game
1) Create a set of pictures with your trivia questions.
2). You can use PowerPoint, Save As .jpg or .png, all slides.
3) Rename Slide1-Slide9 to Slide01, Slide02, etc.
Otherwise, the order is Slide1, Slide10, Slide11, Slide2
4) Create a notecard - name it 'trivia'
5) In your notecard, put the name of each trivia picture, followed
by ~ and then the answer, like this:
Slide01
Slide02~SLMOOC
Slide03~Lyr Lobo
Note: do not add a blank space after the answer and match the
notecard slide list with the # of slides in your viewer

19. How to Play the Trivia Game
1. To play, drag the viewer from your inventory to the ground (rez it).
2. It will tell you it is loaded in the chat log.
3. Click on it.
4. When you get to a slide with a question, ask if anyone has the answer.
5. Answers can be upper or small case - it does not matter.
6. Once someone gets an answer -- or if nobody can figure one out - click on
it again to move to the next picture.
7. The players who guess correctly, but are not the first to get the answer see
an instant message that lets them know that they were correct, but not
first.
8. The viewer will automatically keep track of the scores as you go.
9. When you click on the last picture, it will report all the scores to the chat
log.

20. Advanced Trivia Game Setup Tip
1. If you are feeling brave, you can go into the script and change the line that
says "integer public_scores = 0;" to "integer public_scores = 1;"
2. If you do, the scores will be reported to everyone.
3. If you don't do this, everyone will be told their own score, but only the
owner will see all of them.
4. Usage tips: the players need to sit within 20 meters of the trivia viewer.
5. If out of range, the viewer will not be able to “listen” to what the players
type.
6. Add your questions on the slides or ask them during your talk.
Have fun!
Trivia Game Design: Sendao Goodman and Lyr Lobo

21. Travel with friends
Join the educational communities
Art is never finished, only abandoned
-- DaVinci
Perfection is the enemy of the good
-- Voltaire
Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest
-- Mark Twain

22. Be courageous
It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
-- Comte Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Good judgment comes from experience
Experience comes from bad judgment
-- Mulla Nasrudin Mark Twain, Jim Horning, Will Rogers & Frederick Brooks
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing
-- Jeremiah William Robinson III