NZVWG – VLENZ Update, No 172, June 03, 2010

Does the Emperor have any clothes? New Zealand’s NZVWGrid  ‘newbies’ get free avatar skins, hair, eyes and clothing A ‘noobie’ appearance is no longer necessary in the  NZVWGrid … free avatarskins, eyes and hair have been made available for users  … New Zealand academics, researchers and  virtual world builders,  using and testing the alpha phase [...]

KAREN, VLENZ Update 171, June 01, 2010

KAREN goes  ‘independent’ NZ high-speed research/education network in new partnership … All NZ education to get real Broadband speeds A year-old YouTube view of the FX Networks network  … 2200 kms of optical fibre and still counting. Heralding a new era for online education and research  in New Zealand, Research and Education Advanced Network New [...]

SLENZ Update, No 137, September 19, 2009

LIFE IN A NEW ZEALAND VIRTUAL WORLD ONGENS  gets its first ‘Kiwi Tavern’ as  virtual ‘Aotearoa’  grows … Sign of the ONGENS times … The Kiwi Tavern  at Port Cook. Even though the New Zealand National Virtual World Grid appears to be going through a difficult and, at times, fragile gestation, there is a small [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 115, July 22, 2009

Upcoming Aotearoa New Zealand events GNI Project Symposium ’09 An invitation has been issued by Melanie Middlemiss to the GNI Project Symposium ’09 to be held from  8.30 am – 5 pm on Friday, September 4, 2009, at the  School of Business, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Online Registration is free but must be [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 97, June 9, 2009

‘Exciting’ Kiwi development Major New Zealand universities seek  funding to establish  national virtual world grid Proposal pdf here Three major New Zealand universities are planning to establish an open-access, open-source New Zealand National Virtual World grid based on the ONGENS OpenSim grid which is currently under development. The universities are Otago University, the University of [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 88, May 21, 2009

THE ‘OPENSIM’ EXPERIENCE Worlds of difference  but  ones  that Kiwi developers should probably try out My experience in  OpenSim, OSgrid, OpenLife and New Zealand’s own ONGENS would suggest to me that  the variety and usability of  multi-user virtual worlds are really opening up and educators should not rule  out any of the possibilities. I have [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 73 , April 29, 2009

SL:  import-export with ‘SLENZ Shuffle’ The new ‘Arfur Daley’? Import-export “expert” bot, SLENZ Shuffle, with creator, Toddles Lightworker SLENZ Shuffle? Well he might not be the new “Arfur Daley” (of TV Minder fame) but it looks like he might be able to do a good job in the virtual world import-export business. He has already successfully [...]