Come to the VR Club NCI Dance Party & Race some cars

[GhostInTheMachi]

Hi Fellow Rifters,

Come and join the second tour of the VR Club in Second Life.
We had a great time last week sailing over the NCI site in a balloon and exploring an underwater world on sea horses. This week we’re going dancing Friday at 7pm SLT and then to try out a race track around 8pm SLT. On Saturday 6pm SLT the brave will join me for a Fun Demo Darby at the race track.

As part of a project for my Second Life Polytechnic course I have set up a community for Oculus Rift users called VR Club. The objective of the club is to introduce Rifters to the virtual world of Second Life and teleport to some cool sites (please note that Second Life is R18 which means you must be 18 or over to join the club).

Tour 2 is leaving on:
Friday 5 June at 7pm Second Life Time (same as Los Angeles Time)
This is the same as Friday 5 June at 10pm New York time.
This is the same as Saturday 6 June at 3am UK time.
This is the same as Saturday 6 June at 4am Paris time.
This is the same as Saturday 6 June at 12pm Sydney time
This is the same as Saturday 6 June at 2pm NZ time.

from the NCI South landing site in Second Life. I advise newcomers to allow 60 minutes to download the viewers prior to the start of the tour, chose their avatar, find the NCI jump-off point and have a look around. Maybe get all set up the day before!

1. Go to the website http://www.secondlife.com and click on Join now.
2. Choose an avatar.
3. Choose a username and password, input your details and click ‘Create an Account’.
4. Download the viewer from here. You’ll need to download the Project OculusRift viewer too as this one isn’t Oculus Rift enabled. However, to get full functionality you need to download this one first and log in to it.
5. Now download the Second Life Project OculusRift Viewer from here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release ... .18.295296
6. Click on the Magnifying glass on the left hand tool bar and type ‘NCI Kuula South’ and hit the Search button.
7. Choose the third item in the results list – ‘NCI South New Citizens Incorporated Help/Classes’ with the G rating.
8. Click the ‘Teleport’ Link, then the ‘Teleport’ button, then ‘Teleport’ on the pop-up.
9. Step off the landing star using the arrow keys so the next person doesn’t land on top of you. Click on ‘World’ in the top toolbar and then ‘Set home to here’. Note that you can press Ctrl + Shift + H at any time to go home if you get lost or stuck. You can change your ‘Home’ at any time.
10. Take a look around.
• Use arrow keys to move your avatar.
• Use Ctrl + Alt keys + mouse click on object to zoom in with mouse roller.
• Use Ctrl + Alt + Shift to view 360 using mouse movements.
• Press Escape to return to 3rd person view behind your avatar.
There’s heaps to see here and you can learn a lot about Second Life. Click on the large red floating pin to download a list of NCI Classroom Landmarks into your inventory. Or click on the large Schedule of Classes & Events behind the dance floor to your left to download the NCI month’s schedule of classes and events (e.g. SchMay18 from the pop-up). Then click on the Class LM tab on the same pop-up to download a note card into your inventory with hyperlinks to all the classrooms. To access your Inventory type Ctrl I. Click on Landmarks. Type Ctrl H to access local chat to talk to people nearby.
11. Click on the People tab on the bottom toolbar and you will see everybody nearby. Click on the Groups tab in the pop-up, type in ‘VR Club’ and press Enter. Right click the club name and click ‘View’. Then click ‘More’ and then ‘Join’.
Congratulations, you are now a member of the VR Club!

The tour will be meeting by the table & chairs next to where you arrived. Then we will go to the beach for a dance.

Right click the name of the club in the pop-up and click ‘Chat’. Now the members of the club can chat privately without everyone else Nearby listening in. When you type ‘Ctrl H’ to bring up the chat pop-up there will now be two options in the left hand panel, ‘VR Club’ or ‘Nearby chat’. If you are in Nearby chat, type your words and press enter to be heard up to about 20 metres away. To be heard over a greater distance (100m) type your words and press Ctrl Enter to shout. When you are in VR Club chat everyone in the club will hear you over any distances. Good for if you lose the group! You can alternate between the two depending on who you want to talk to.

My Second Life name is Firedragon33. Use ‘Ctrl H’ to open your chat window and chat to me when you arrive. Click on the Lamp to receive notecards on the tour itinerary, the club standards and how to join the group. I’ll send you an invite when I see you there as well.

Put on your Rift and headphones once we start dancing. There’s no real benefit in wearing it before then and I’ve found it quite tricky to navigate the controls and type while wearing the Rift. Click on ‘Me’ on the top toolbar, then click ‘Toggle HMD mode’ and Second Life should appear in your HMD. Rift mode should be Extend Desktop to the HMD.

This tour we will:
• Dance to some cool music at the NCI Beach Party
• Race some cars on a professional looking track
• The brave will come back for a demo darby

The tour will take about an hour. If you feel queasy at any stage take off your Rift. I danced for two hours while wearing the Rift last week and it was amazing! No sickness at all and I even had a real life beer while dancing. Purely for research!!
You can continue the tour without wearing the Rift or simply leave Second Life altogether. After the tour feel free to return back to the places we visited or explore further by yourself. Check out the attached video for some basic SL commands. It's only four minutes 46 seconds long!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiekGSEedUc

Please place some feedback here on the Forum after the tour and thanks for your participation.

[Jose]

Hello Machine Ghost

You might also want to contact the Road to VR guys. They're maintaining a calendar of virtual and real life meetups. Your event looks like it might fit in well in the calendar, next to other events at Altspace, ConVRge, and VRChat.

http://www.roadtovr.com/virtual-reality ... -calendar/

P.S. Are you the guy who made the "Ghost in the Machine" game and kickstarter for DK1 back in the day?

[GhostInTheMachi]

Hik Jose, thanks for the tip. I'll go and check it out. Unfortunately it was not me who created the Ghost in the Machine game. Cheers Ghost