OpenSim, the open source spinoff of Second Life, has a small but passionate userbase (probably between 10,000-15,000), many or most of whom are educators who use the technology as a low cost teaching tool. To enhance OpenSim's limited communication features for pedagogical events, educator Leighton Marjoram has turned to the popular gamer platform Discord:
As people who use Opensimulator will know voice and chat range whilst in world is limited and is not helpful when exploring regions together in groups. Discord and the overlay helps a great deal as all the grid crawlers have to do is signup for Discord and download the desktop client and join a dedicated channel (voice and chat)... Also while on the Opensim Life grid we decided to do a group build region and we used to Discord for a private discussion area and used voice in-world whilst we were building.
More here, along with tips for setting Discord up. For users who need a more secure and private chat channel, such as therapists who use OpenSim for RL therapy -- the US miliary, for instance, uses OpenSim as part of its therapy for personnel with PTSD -- Leighton recommends Matrix and Riot app.
Hat tip: Rocky Constantine.
Why It's So Hard to Create a Successful Successor to Second Life (Comment of the Week)
Good conversation on OpenSim's struggle to become a viable consumer product capped by this comment from reader "Pulsar":
There's been several attempts to create a Second Life successor -- Cloud Party was showing promise, until Yahoo! gobbled it up a few years ago, where it remains, presumably undigested somewhere its corpulent innards -- but none have really gained traction as yet. Pulsar has a theory why:
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Posted on Monday, June 11, 2018 at 12:23 PM in Comment of the Week, Open Sim, Open Source/Reverse Engineer | Permalink | Comments (3)
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