Since Hursley is still a private island closed to the general public, and a project financed in conjunction with IBM's UK office, this World from My Window entry from epredator Potato (pictured above in Predator-esque garb) also qualifies as a Mixed Reality Monday entry:
"My fellow eightbar
colleagues and I use it as a sandbox and test bed for all sorts of things," Potato explains.
"I remember when all this was fields. We had only a few people in the
eightbar group. We were learning about scale and about interfaces to the
outside world so many of the things we small. I decided to purchase the log
cabin as a wooden clubhouse (by Tyra Valkyrie), [then] the builds started to
get a bit bigger. We showed more people and, yes, more things started to grow.
"I also remember that I managed, when the sim was lightly built to cause a
great earthquake, a slight error on my part uploading a texture .raw file.
Objects shot up in the air and went off sim and got returned as the land
fractured and huge mountainous spikes and deep troughs carved the place up. I
put it back, but for some objects it was just too late.
"Just before I went away on holiday, I bought Predator towers (by Seigmancer Nino)-- it's the now much shorter office block, center back. That seemed to create an
explosion in height and scale for everyone. The place started to fill up,
people exploring height like Hammy Takakura's huge blue tower, jam-packed full
of things too. Andy Remblai's super yacht with a dive wreck underneath it, over
on the left.
"The sim is maxed out, people are now learning how to build efficiently, use
textures etc. It is still free to everyone in eigthbar. I invested my own money in the sim(s) to get
things going, people have started to offer to pay, but that then gets
complicated, retro-fitting a taxation system. So I am just happy that so many
are seeing the potential and getting involved.
"So whenever I look at Hursley, I have a mental rush of memories of how we
have ended up with this many people joining eightbar, both building here and
out in the world. It was very much a build it and they will come.
"Its only been 8 months for me, but it seems like so much has happened with
so many collegues joining us, or us joining them for the ones that have been in
much longer. So I look at the view from my window, wearing my Sythia Veil
Predator kit and my custom leather jacket (which is all my own work) I see both
history and the future at the same time.
"As with eightbar.com these statements are my own and don't necessarily
represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions."
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