Category Archives: VR

Haven at the End of the Road

This is what I ended up with. After futzing around for hours with google maps, google earth, Photoshop, Terragen, Bailiwick, Unity3D, importing, exporting, testing in sim-on-stick, uploading the .raw file to OSGrid so I could get an OAR to import … Continue reading

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VIDEO – teleXLR8 highlights 2010 (via teleXLR8)

teleXLR8 2010 highlights. Visit the blog for updates. XG VIDEO – teleXLR8 highlights 2010 Short version (5 min 50 sec) – Blip.tv | Youtube | Vimeo Long version (1 hour 5 min) – Blip.tv | Youtube | Vimeo teleXLR8 highlights … Continue reading

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Mummy visits my world.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. This is something I really wanted to remember. There isn’t even a really good picture of it. I suppose there is some appropriateness to the fact that I looked like a big egg … Continue reading

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Featured Artist Talk at i-Learning Workshops

Some of my current work is on exhibit at i-Learning Workshops and I will also be giving a featured artist talk there on Friday, March 25th at 4pm SLT | 7pm EDT. Slurl: i-Learning Workshop, First Floor Gallery Xhyra Graf: … Continue reading

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Sunrise from the front porch

Sunrise from the front porch Originally uploaded by XhyraGraf And on the seventh hour She rested… Something appropriate about this picture because the sun was coming up like a big bald head [I wonder if anyone will get that reference] … Continue reading

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Starting Over…

Starting Over… Originally uploaded by XhyraGraf I’m not sure but I think OpenSim Stand-alone Xhyra Graf is not quite as beautiful as SecondLife Xhyra Graf.  See here: www.flickr.com/photos/xhyragraf/5163802066/in/photostream/ However, I am wearing clothes, shape, skin and hair that I made … Continue reading

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Rearranging my Second Life

To follow up on this post finally… I’ve had this home for a bit. Well, since the first moments that SecondLife began offering them to premium members. However, I never really used it. Why? There are several reasons, the primary … Continue reading

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Teleplace

Attended the Turing Church Workshop and will write a post on that tomorrow but for now…  I have to say that I’m pretty impressed with Teleplace. It’s an intuitively easy to use* interface that allowed for a great meeting/workshop. I … Continue reading

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The VR Thing

To pick up from here:  What’s the importance of the VR, specifically Second Life? Is it just that it’s more practical than creating big ass sculpture in real life?1 There’s About the Xhyra Graf. It is what I came up … Continue reading

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Second Life

I’ve been wanting to do something like this for quite some time. The vr or simulated world would be a way for me to get used to the technology and be the beginning of setting me on the road to thinking about … Continue reading

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