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NASA: International Space Station in Second Life
Overview: A classroom-course facilitated virtual build of the International Space Station in Second Life, complete with all current components, rendered to scale with accurate physical specifications, and the ability to lock in place when assembled correctly. This project will catalyze the volunteer community, involve them in creating something substantial, and teach them about the ISS, space sciences, and technical skills (programming and 3-dimensional building).
Website: http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/node/21
SLURLsL:
- Spaceport Alpha - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Alpha/115/145/22/
- Spaceport Bravo - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Bravo/12/80/23
NASA: Virtual CoLab
Overview: The virtual CoLab is a dedicated “island” in the “Second Life” online virtual world, and will later be complemented by a traditional Web-based community website.
You may visit CoLab in the virtual world Second Life at any time. Regular weekly CoLab community organizing meetings are held on "Space CoLab" island every Tuesday at 1pm Pacific Daylight Time. These online communities will complement and extend the offline physical CoLab in order to:
- Engage stakeholders in designing and building the CoLab: consistent with the values of the CoLab project
- Prototype the physical CoLab in Second Life virtual space as a test bed before investing resources in building the actual physical CoLab
- Enable technology entrepreneurs outside the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in and benefit from CoLab
- Help ARC communicate the value of CoLab to other NASA facilities and external institutions
- Create expertise within ARC in the important new online technology realm of “social software,” in order to help ARC more effectively contribute to NASA’s public exploration efforts
NASA "Real Estate" in Second Life: Space CoLab, Explorer Island
NASA Groups in Second Life: Space CoLab, Welcome to NASA
Website: http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/virtual
Website: http://nasacolab.org/
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/NASA%20CoLab/244/110/23
04/24-25/08
Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds
Website: http://www.ndu.edu/irmc/fedconsortium.html
Website: https://fedsl.brainkeeper.net//index.php?
02/25/08
Spice up your next meeting: Wear wings
Website: http://www.federaltimes.com/index.php?S=3387086
02/01/08
Doing Physics in Second Life
Website: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/32673
01/28/08
It's All How You Play the Game
Website: http://www.federaltimes.com/index.php?S=3333068
Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7195718.stm
01/21/08
Metanomics: Federal Agencies in Second Life
Website: http://metanomics.net/federal-agencies
Website: http://www.slcn.tv/metanomics-federal-agencies-sl
01/16/08
NASA History through Second Life
Website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2hvrMjgu0
01/16/08
Development of a NASA-Based Massive Multiplayer Online Learning Game
Website: http://procurement.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=128415
Website: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/nasa-seeks-inpu.html
01/03/08
NASA Dreams of an Interplanetary ‘Second Life’ for Mars Crew
Website: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/nasa_virtual_worlds
Website: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4080591&page=1
01/02/08
Space Talk (Teen Grid)
Website: http://www.libraryloft.org/secondlife.asp
11/08/07
NASA Plays Games
Website: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/nasas_mmog.html
10/15/07
NASA Colab's Second Life Mission
Website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr3vXuxEPB8
09/10/08
Feds Lead a Second Life
Website: http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37966&dcn=todaysnews
06/25/07
Virtual Reality and Exploratory Participation
Website: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/896/1
Website: http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/06/26/nasa-and-collaborative-environments/
06/27/07
NASA Harnesses Power of Virtual Worlds for Exploration, Outreach
Website: http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/June/20070627163101lcnirellep0.5420343.html
05/26/07
NASA Ames’ Second Life Blends Cyberspace with Outer Space
Website: http://www.space.com/adastra/070526_isdc_second_life.html
Website: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=935458846&channel=37137167
03/30/07
Virtual Space Gurus Build Final Frontier
Website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17841125/
NOAA Virtual World
Overview: Soar through a hurricane on the wing of a research aircraft, rise gently through the atmosphere atop a weather balloon or search for a hidden underwater cave on a side trip from a NOAA submersible. These and other virtual adventures are attracting large numbers of "avatars," or virtual selves, to one of the first government-sponsored, Earth-science "islands" in the rapidly growing online world of Second Life. The NOAA Earth System Research Lab developed the site for users to have the experiences in the virtual world they may not have in the physical world, and learn about the cutting-edge science that NOAA conducts regularly. See press release for more information about.
SLURLs:
- Meteora: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/177/161/27/
- Okeanos: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Okeanos/64/217/30/
Website: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/outreach/#sl
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackshaven/sets/72157594500016565/
SciLands Virtual Continent
Overview: The SciLands is a mini-continent and user community in the virtual world platform Second Life devoted exclusively to science and technology. There are over 20 science and technology related organizations in the SciLands, including government agencies, universities and museums. Click here for the current list of organizations. SciLands members have regular meetings in Second Life where they share ideas, help each other, and plan future projects. Members also share resources like meeting spaces on their islands. Careful planning, organization, and technical features ensure that SciLands continues to grow.
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Scilands/128/128/30/
Website: http://www.scilands.org/