Classes are already going on and Beta Technologies’s own Gwyneth Llewelyn is the Chair! The new classroom space is being used for the Virtual Worlds subject at the TeSP Gaming & e-Sports course of the School of Higher Education at Rio Maior, Santarém Polytechnical, Portugal. The new classroom is installed […]
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We are proud to announce that this week the LOCUS Project Amiais@SL project has joined the Virtual Worlds Education Consortium continent in Second Life ®! The VWEC’s purpose is to bring educators in virtual worlds together. LOCUS Project Amiais@SL’s merits are thus acknowledged by this welcoming into this growing territory […]
Many thanks to Valibrarian Gregg for organizing the ACRL Virtual World Interest Group visit to LOCUS Amiais@SL project and making this great machinima! If you missed the visit on the last 15 March 2023, this machinima sums it up nicely! And check LOCUS Amiais@SL afterwards — everyone is welcome to […]
On Wed Mar 15th 2023, at 9-10am SLT, meet the ACRL Virtual World Interest Group at the VWEC Fireside Deck on to join a visit to the LOCUS Amiais@SL project. The ACRL — Association of College and Research Libraries is a division of the American Library Association. The ACRLVirtual Worlds […]
Yesterday, the 27th June 2022, we were delighted to host the friends of the LOCUS Project Amiais@SL at a celebration on the Amiais simulators! While the party was going on, it was also being streamed into the IV LOCUS Seminar: Sharing Cultural Heritage on digital platforms that was being held […]
Join us on Monday the 27th June, 9 AM SLT, for the grand opening party / mixed reality event of the LOCUS project at the Eira Comunitaria on Amiais village centre in Second Life! We’ll be streaming the party into the IV LOCUS Seminar: Sharing Cultural Heritage on Digital Platforms, […]
On March 16th, Amiais in the Second Life is officially opened.
Since June 2021, a replica of Amiais has been developed in a metaverse to transpose the village’s heritage and cultural heritage through a virtual environment. This transposition involves building the architectural space, the environment, the fauna and flora, and the recreation of Amiais’ culture.
In this way, a playful narrative was created, similar to geocaching, so that the residents and visitors can discover and learn about the village and the cultural heritage of the place.
Just a cool preview of what you can see when visiting our latest project: Locus Project Amiais @ Second Life More of these soon.
So… I have been thinking about this of late. Actually, it is an extension of something that has intrigued me for a long time in real life (RL): what is place? This, of course, is a seminal question in architecture and related fields. Possibly there will never be a definite, […]
We proudly present our latest project, the 4-sim region of Amiais, currently online and fully visitable in Second Life LOCUSPROJECT is an iteration of the original project LOCUS – PlayfuL cOnneCted rUral territorieS: The Internet of Things in the intergenerational Creative production of cultural georeferenced contents, a multi-year research project […]