Saturday, April 14, 2012

Freebie of the Day: Low Prim Ladder

Freebie of the Day!

Low Prim Ladder


SpotON3D Freebie of the Day has returned! Stop by the SpotON3D Freebie Store or VeeSome Freebie Store and grab today's freebie!

Find more free stuff at our online Synergy marketplace!
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Friday, April 13, 2012

Freebie of the Day: Stainless Steel Oven

HOT Freebie of the Day!

Stainless Steel Oven


SpotON3D Freebie of the Day has returned! Stop by the SpotON3D Freebie Store or VeeSome Freebie Store to pick up today's freebie, a stainless steel oven. Find more free stuff at our online Synergy marketplace!
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Grid Wrap w/Frolic Mills - Sat. April 14 at 11am MVT

Stay tuned for the next edition of the Grid Wrap program, coming to you live from Grid Wrap Studios this Saturday, April 14, starting at 11am MVT/PDT!

Grid Wrap is a bi-weekly talk show, produced and hosted by Varda Silver. This week, our special guest will be Frolic Mills, creator of The Best Of Second Life Magazine. He is a talk show host, humanitarian, and so much more. There are very few as in tune with what is happening in the virtual world as Frolic. We will be taking an in-depth look into how he became such a great success, and what drives him!

Our special Musical Guest for the show will be Terry Toons!!

Oh My Gosh, dont miss out!!! These next few shows are so exciting.. it's Electric!

If you wish to watch the show live, you may do so by simply creating a free account at https://spoton3d.com/register. Please RSVP, as seating is limited, and we do ask that if you reserve a seat that you please attend.

The show will begin at 11AM MVT/PDT (Pacific Daylight Time). That's 1pm if you're in Texas and 2pm if you're in the Eastern states. If you are abroad, try this handy time converter... http://www.timeanddate.com/.

Unable to attend? Feel free to join us via livestream at http://www.livestream.com/spoton3dcom.

If you have any questions about the show, sponsorship, or advertising, please feel free to contact Varda at vardasilver@gmail.com, or gridwrap@spoton3d.com.

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Freebie of the Day: Potted Plant Set

Back by Popular Demand!

Freebie of the Day!


SpotON3D Freebie of the Day has returned! Stop by the SpotON3D Freebie Store or VeeSome Freebie Store to pick up today's freebie, a potted plant set. Find more free stuff at our online Synergy marketplace.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

RESIDENT PROFILE: Michael Somerset

"I've Got an Animation For That..."
This has been the battlecry of Michael Somerset, who has been the in-house animator for SpotON3D for many months now. With 4000+ original animations at his disposal, and the ability to create new ones on demand, he certainly has no problem backing up that statement.

Based on how we see him in world much of the time, one might think that Michael is some superhero (or possibly villain?) lurking about the metaverse. But there is a good reason for his all-black appearance: it gives his avatar what is referred to as a low "avatar rendering cost," or ARC, which helps to make sure that there is nothing on him that will cause lag while he is testing out animations.

Before venturing into online worlds, Michael was a bench carpenter for a large yacht company, building furniture for use inside the yachts. He started his online journey after an accident at work left him partially disabled. He was introduced to Second Life by Linda Kellie, a childhood friend who has worked in online worlds and has recently open sourced much of her own work. While Michael was going through physical therapy and was unable to work, Linda asked him if he would like to try building furniture in Second Life. Since he had time on his hands, and was not used to sitting around, he decided to give it a shot. He picked up on it quickly, and it wasn't long before he realized he would need animations for the furniture. But when he discovered how expensive it would be to purchase a number of good animations, he convinced Linda to show him how to make his own. Within three months, they opened an animations store together known as "Lotsa Balls". It wasn't too long before he was doing well enough to strike out on his own, and that is when he opened his "Ball Mart" animations store.

Michael learned about SpotON3D from another grid owner, who had been complaining that COO Tessa Harrington was "plugging SpotON3D in Second Life." (I suppose this goes to show that any publicity is good publicity!) Michael has since moved his Ball Mart store to SpotON3D, and now serves as our full-time in-house animator. He has been creating many exciting items for us, including snowboards, skis and ice skates for our upcoming SnowyBrook Winter Resort community.

Since coming to SpotON3D, Michael has worked with the staff to learn more about how scripts can be effectively used with animations. This led to him creating something that he calls "Digi-Food." Unlike other food items available in Web Worlds, Digi-Food disappears bit by bit as you eat it. By combining talents in animation, scripting, and sculpts, as well as texturing, he will have new products out very soon. Items nearly finished include a watermelon eating contest, steak dinner, pancake breakfast, apple, Popsicle and many other foods and meals.

In real life, Michael Somerset is Michael Sietz, 50 years old and living on the Oregon Coast. He is a United States Navy veteran of five years, with two kids: a son in college, and a daughter soon to be in college. Although it is never required, Michael likes the fact that many of those within SpotON3D are willing to disclose at least some of their real life information, as it denotes accountability and honesty.

When asked what he would like to accomplish here in SpotON3D, Michael says, "I'm really excited about this Web World and the direction that it's going. If I had my wish, what assistance I can offer would drive SpotON3D to a much better known grid than any previous." We're very fortunate to have Michael here with us, and we very much appreciate the contribution that he makes.
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Sunday, April 8, 2012

SpotON3D: Stepping Up To Meet Industry Demand

In response to the rising interest from the corporate and educational world to include a 3D component for internal and external business and sales, we are about to unveil WorldWorks™ in addition to our current SpotON3D community. What’s the difference? While SpotON3D is for the traditional virtual 3D world user, WorldWorks™ expands 3DWeb worlds to companies who seek more dynamically interactive customer and staff experiences, while curtailing time and money costs—resources that can be reinvested in their business, notably technology and R&D. Green and seamless, businesses can now meet with clients and conduct internal meetings on demand and in real time.


A Radically Different Approach
You may have noticed that other companies have their own 3D worlds that on the surface look very similar to SpotON3D. These worlds include Second Life and platforms based on the Opensimulator model. We at SpotON3D have always taken a unique approach to what we think of as the 3DWeb, and we feel that we are building a framework here which will transform the technology into a natural extension of the 2D Web pages that we are now accustomed to using on a daily basis. Our approach has been considered radical in the eyes of some, but we truly want to see 3D worlds become an indispensable tool for the day-to-day operation of corporations and educational institutions, and we strongly believe that the steps we are taking will help to accomplish this.

SpotON3D will continue to offer new and fresh venues, products and services for 3DWeb world users and content creators, who will enjoy a stable, low-lag in world experience good for all users, with child-friendly areas, great value for the money, and a staff of friendly people who provide top-notch assistance on demand for all residents and guests. Costs are shared across our resident population, making it the fair and community-minded Web World that we have envisioned since day one.

New Tools and Services That Make Business and Education in 3D A Success
The latest upgrade of our popular EzPrezTools™ give businesses, educators and anyone needing to conduct meetings and presentations a dynamic experience without the headaches and hassles usually associated with online meeting software. With easy and intuitive onboarding of guests, media capabilities, and native support for standard applications such as Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint, PDF, OpenOffice and more, you can bring others in affordably in ten minutes or less and conduct your business in an impactful way.

If you’re able to use Facebook™, then you’re able to use our EzPrezTools™. Features include presentation screens and whiteboards, as well as multifunctional picture frames to upload logos, house style elements and marketing material directly to your 3DWeb office. Thanks to this technology, your real world office seamlessly merges into your 3D global meeting spot.

World on a Webpage™ technology gives you the power to login from any website or social network. This makes our Web Worlds highly suitable as low-entry 3D extensions to any website or intranet environment. Easily meet with people from anywhere in the world in 3D, using a doorway on your Website that takes you to your next meeting or class. Combine this with the ease of Facebook™ instant ID registrations, and you have an easy way to bring guests or clients onboard.

HotSwap Scenes™ allow you to swap out full regions layouts with a single click, as well as to dynamically add and remove objects from the scene. This means that you can seamlessly switch from an office center to a demo setup to a virtual replication of your factory, or to anything you can imagine, as long as the layout has been created before and saved into your HotSwap Scenes™ library. Besides creating your own, you can also buy prefab HotSwap Scenes™ through SpotON3D’s marketplace. Our library of available scenes will continue to grow, so that we can provide our customers with a wide variety of selections.

BoostCloud™ Technology allows you to have your region serviced by cloud computing. Thanks to this technology, you will be able to host up to 125 individuals simultaneously on your region. BoostCloud™ is an on-demand service and can be switched on/off at any given time. This service is invoiced at a low hourly rate, and you pay only for the time that you use the service.

Facing Forward in Growth and Meeting Consumer Needs
WorldWorks™ now merges the 2D and 3DWeb for multiple uses, from recreation to serious business and education interests. This creates jobs with a low carbon footprint, helping all users expand their personal and professional experience. The future never looked brighter.

Stay tuned for the new and evolving horizons that WorldWorks™ is opening for everyone!
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Frets Nirvana Performs at the Blue Shanty - Friday, Apr 6, 2012

Total Guitar! That's what you hear when you listen to Frets Nirvana. Using acoustic, resonator and electric guitars, Fret's pallette of sound is quite varied and always interesting!

Frets Nirvana grew up in the rock and roll city of Cleveland, Ohio and in his good old band days could be seen hanging out and playing in clubs with the likes of Joe Walsh and the James Gang and Phil Keaggy and Glass Harp. Adding vocals to his wide music variety of tonal colors, a performance by Frets Nirvana always offers interesting music for the listener.

Frets always rocks the stage when he comes here. He pours his heart and soul into what he does, and it definitely comes through on stage. Check Frets out in in SpotON3D...you are guaranteed an enjoyable music experience!

Come on down and listen to Frets Nirvana perform an hour of fine rock/blues/jazz this Friday, April 6, from 1pm-2pm MVT/Pacific, at the Blue Shanty stage in Shanty Town. The stage is in SpotON3D at:
http://3Durl.com/map/spoton3d/ Shanty%20Town/65/58/35.

The Blue Shanty always strives to bring you the best in entertainment. These are the real deal folks, not pre-recorded performers, or stand in artists. They search and scour the metaverse every day to enrich your Web World experience!

If you don't already have your FREE SpotON3D/WorldWorks account, get one now at https://spoton3d.com/register, or thru your Facebook page at https://apps.facebook.com/webworlds.

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