We had a great time on last Saturday's tour. I've received a couple of requests for the addresses we visited, so here they are. I encourage everyone to visit these places. We barely scratched the surface at VIBE so they are likely to show up on a future tour.
CHARE Village
grid.kitely.com:8002:CHARE Village
A virtual-based coworking space for the real life Community HIV/AIDS Resource Exchange (CHARE) Project and its real/virtual life community partners. More info at
http://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Sal ... RE-Village
Unofficial 3D ADA Toolkit
grid.kitely.com:8002:Unofficial 3D ADA Toolkit
This project is an attempt to turn piles of official documents into an experience that offers better user retention and recollection. More info at:
http://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Pam ... Government
VIBE
vibe.bio-se.info:9000:vibe
Virtual Islands for Better Education (VIBE) is a collaboration to create learning activities and tools in virtual worlds. Current builds include Nova Archaeology region, a simulation based on the Hardy-Weinberg equation relating to populations genetics, the Cardiac Electrical Activity Simulator, a training simulation for dental students, Project Alexandria, and the East Africa Traveler simulation. More info at:
http://wiki.bio-se.info
The Metaverse Tour group chose to go through the Africa simulation during which most members of our tour caught tropical diseases or bled out from lacerations. We should have studied harder. This is a very well-built learning experience complete with HUDS, health trackers, NPCs, and quizzes along the way. I would recommend it to anyone building a learning environment in virtual worlds.