Hello and welcome to the Space City region on OSGrid. Hello. Guten Tag. Bonjour. Buenos dias. Ola. Ciao. hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Space%20City/200/200/22 This is one of my hobby regions based on Gerry Anderson TV series from the 1960s like Supercar and Fireball XL5, and also has models of real spacecraft and robots. Feel free to look around now or any time later if you wish. This visit was prompted when Thirza Ember picked up on a comment I made at the OpenSimulator Community Conference in December 2021 and also in an earlier (2015) blog post about the benefits for the Metaverse concept of thinking of a travel outfit and travel kit or suitcase relevant to your destination. It is aimed at providing an easy to understand overall conceptual framework for Metaverse interoperability within which innovation and implementations can be made. I have been promoting this idea for some time, including recently at a meeting of the Open Metaverse Interoperability (OMI) Metaverse Traversal standards group - https://omigroup.org https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2015/08/14/open-metaverse-the-opensimulator-contribution/ The simple idea could help with taking important aspects of your avatar identity across platforms and offer a target for an open metaverse concept that might be implementable. It would avoid having to agree common (perhaps lowest denominator) standards to which platforms might try to comply. The idea would be that an avatar appearance/outfit that complied with an interchange format could be worn, and a suitcase, backpack or travel kit attached. This could be checked for permissions and filtered, adapted or converted for technology compliance and permissions when travelling to another platform or part of the Metaverse. We can envisage the travel pack containing one initial outfit worn for the trip and perhaps some other outfits for the destination (evening party wear, business meeting attire, space suit or scuba gear anyone?), travel ID/credentials, travel wallet, and other objects (gifts to use at the destination or space to retain souvenirs obtained there). The pack protocol might allow for appropriate export checks from the source location/platform, conversion requirements, and entry checks to the destination. We can even envisage a pre-travel pack checking service to advise on compatibility of the contents and allow adjustments to be made prior to travel. Some platforms might provide a "Metaverse Portal" area to which local avatars travel and which can have technology or web services links to assist the avatar in preparing their appearance and/or travel pack prior to making the jump. The screen near the campfire will show some slides that give a bit more detail. If you are interested you can get the PowerPoint version via http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~ai/resources/2022-02-02-HG-Safari/ ------------------------- If you don't already have a copy of the open source mesh Ruth2 or Roth2 avatars they are available in the boxes nearby. Take a copy of the core box which will give all the basics needed when worn and take the relevant "extras" box which includes useful additional elements. ------------------------- When we have finished here I invite you to come over the hill to Venus's Beach House to enjoy the evening seaside view. hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Space%20City/205/245/23 Venus is the Doctor of Space Medicine on the Fireball XL5 spaceship crew. Fireball XL5 was produced by Gerry Anderson as a puppet TV show in the UK in the 1960s. If you have a viewer with EEP (Environmental Enhancement Project) capabilities the environment should change as you go across the hills to the beach area. If not, I suggest you set Sunset. ------------------------- If you still have time before the next part of you HG safari, you might want to go up above this region to see models of some real spacecraft. Including the recently deployed James Webb Space Telescope. hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Outer%20Space/248/175/401 If you want to go back to the ground you can use the Teleport sign and return to the Voyager and Cassini spacecraft displays in Space City. hop://hg.osgrid.org:80/Space City/72/214/23 ------------------------- Thank you for visiting Space City! Ai Austin 2-Feb-2022