If you have strayed a little from virtual worlds recently, or if you are intrigued by the bigger environments but just don’t want to dive in fully or if you need a quick private virtual world to test and idea, or if you need a quick online 3d meeting place….(lots of use cases) then just spend 5 minutes (or less) with Kitely.
http://www.kitely.com press the register with facebook button. Create a world (there is a mini plugin to install to be able to launch) then hit launch and the SL client you have on your machine will spark up and drop you into your shiny new on demand opensim.
When you create the world you can specify it is only for you or for friends.
When you are not there the sim is parked in storage rather than being always on. That makes sense for most applications. The fact this is opensim too is great. The technology has got to a point where a service like kitely can build upon it.
Pretty much in the time it took to read this you could have sparked up and entered a virtual world with full creative control and prim building.
They have also added importing of your own oar files, and exporting too which is very handy.
The images are form my little private OAR but include things like the Cool Stuff Collective set we used on S2Ep13 of the show.
So far so good, it all looks very promising 🙂 I think I will have to drop this into my Opensim presentation at Develop this year to show just how far and fast things are moving.
I often run a local opensim to show how I prepare presentations, which in turn could make them an exhibit. Whilst I have some live opensim servers they were for private work, never opened them up due to confidentiality. I also ever got around to sparking up another one. So now if I build a nicer OAR file of the idea. Make it available online, that OAR can be used by people who only need to have a moderate vw knowledge to create their own instance of it, or visit my instance and share with others.
It’s a subtly different model, but an intriguing one that works, and as the tech works smoothly why not just use it 🙂
Thanks for this note about Kitely – it looks to be a very easy way to get an instant Opensim world.
But what caught my eye, as I was thinking I could use my Maya sim OAR file, was that you had used it also – hey, there’s the Palenque pyramid and the hacienda! I’m glad you found it useful.
For anyone else reading this, it is free at rexxed.com – http://www.rexxed.com/2009/04/mexican-themed-sim-with-a-maya-pyramid/
Enjoy!
I always use your wonderful Maya OAR unsually in presentations and demos. I use it to point out that I did not have to build everything (and that you built that one and released it to the world) but that in opensim there is the potential to build upon other worlds. Your pyramid also has a good scale impact, shows mirror world potential to people but they then have to consider time and space.
I will try and make sure I put your URL on posts, I have certainly sent it to a few people when they ask where it all comes from 🙂