Rezzable ed il nuovo Heritage Key's King

Heritage Key's King Tut Virtual Experience is a virtual world much like Second Life though, of course, smaller in scale and hosted by Rezzable on its own equipment.

To explore it, you will need to install a free virtual world client (PC or Mac) on your machine.
http://heritage-key.com/virtual-experience
At this site, you can create an avatar and download the client. Most of the features will be very familiar to an SL user.
The world of King Tut is divided into zones such as The Valley of the Kings, a museum with artifacts and audio descriptions, and a Banks of the Nileexperience with another gallery plus Nile barges, a granary, and more.
Of interest to this educator is how HK provides strongly written and well researched Web portal for student work. It's rich in ideas for assignments:
http://heritage-key.com/
The potential is strong for immersive education in several fields. Teams can explore, complete projects such as my own "Saving Isis" for my first-yearwriting class:
http://iggyssyllabus.pbworks.com/Saving-Isis
Have fun on the Nile!
Ignatius Onomatopoeia (SL)Joe Essid, University of Richmondjessid@richmond.edu

Rezzable rezza altrove

BuilderBot: How best to release it???
Mon, 07/20/2009 - 15:43 — RightAsRain Rimbaud
We made a set of tools to help us archive and move our content that is/was on the SL grid. We called it "BuilderBot" as it automates the process of finding objects on a region and converting them into OAR files that can be used offline and/or inside any OpenSim grid. We also made a tool to look at the OAR file offline and edit it. This is particularly useful to merge content from several OAR files. We think this is pretty handy stuff and thought it would make sense to release it for serious content creators. There are of course some issues relating to this and we would like to explain our approach to releasing it and invite some constructive comments. Please leave comments, suggestions here or drop us a line using our handy enuff contact form.


What is BuilderBot?
A set of tools to allow content owners to

SIM2OAR = copy their prims into an OAR file
OAR editor to look at XML contents and merge, replace items
OAR2SL = a bot to rebuild a sim in SL from an OAR file.
Significantly, there is no check for DRM at all. We did not need this as all our stuff is ours and the extra check makes the process even longer/more unstable.

Currently BuilderBot SIM2OAR tool will copy an entire SL Sim and create a OAR file that can be uploaded into any OpenSim grid--such as our Rezzable Grid. We have already used it successfully to copy more than 10 regions.
http://rezzable.com/blog/rightasrain-rimbaud/builderbot-how-best-release-it