![]() I had help with a handful of other colleagues to be room hosts, because we had rooms for all the different student teams. In fact, I recently built a bunch of virtual rooms for the networking portion of an event for the College of Business. Talk about a perfectly easy way to have a holiday party with your friends! (Roughly 24 people max can be in the same Hubs room at the same time.) Nobody needs to download anything either. (It was as moving as I remembered, and my colleagues were also wowed.) Host a Party in MoHubs for Your Holidays!īurned out socializing in Zoom?! Mozilla Hubs is just about the easiest and most fun way to quickly get into a virtual environment with up to about 20 other people or so. In fact, I took everyone back to my favorite exhibit from the Burning Man event because I had been so impressed with it. ![]() A new friend I’d met at a VR conference, Bruce Wolcott from Bellevue College’s XR Lab, also joined us for this outing. Last month our VR Exploder’s Club went back into to AltSpace VR, since it had been quite awhile since our last visit there. ![]() There’s lots of educational and interpretive content related to the Victorian era, and of course about the literature of the day. There are more than 60 hours of events at the Dickens’ Project parties, role play and readings, ice skating, dance performances, live musicians etc. Seanchai Libraries started the Dickens’ Project in Second Life in 2008, and it’s an incredible themed interactive experience offered each year in December. My colleagues and I from SJSU’s Virtual Center for Archives and Records Administration (VCARA) and the Community Virtual Library are doing our 3rd annual live reading for this month’s Dickens’ Project. Now can you see why I’m so passionate about virtual worlds? But wait….there’s more! December Virtual Events in Second Life When I went in to get the above screenshot of my exhibit for this blog post, here’s a comment that was waiting for me: I created this exhibit because I think virtual community is now more important than ever, and coincidentally I have a great example to share of the kind of impact this kind of thing has on me and others. Vivian, the legendary Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and at the center altar there is an image of the COVID19 virus, representing the many people lost to us this year globally from the pandemic. Among the photos were George Floyd, Lorena Borjas (Mexican-American transgender and immigrant rights activist), civil rights icons John Lewis and C.T. I created several altars that represent not just one individual, but whole communities who have lost important people that represent them. When you land at the exhibit you are greeted by the serene sound of crickets, frogs, and the occasional hoot of an owl in an otherwise quiet small cemetery. On Halloween, I put up a public exhibit for the Second Life community a Día De Los Muertos scene honoring some of those we lost in 2020. Día De Los Muertos exhibit, in Second Life
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