Location: Travel Hub, Heritage Key Before Viv gave me my recent tour of the Heritage Key Valley of the Kings, I bumbled about the new welcome areas for avatars. The ability to select better avatars (I'm sticking with Ron Glass' clone, however) makes HK worth a repeat visit. Here's Iggy/Ron looking at the new HK avatars and accessories:

Viv Trafalgar wanted to give me a sneak peek at some of the new content coming for Heritage Key. I'd cast some doubt last fall on how well it worked for my class. So now I'll begin a few dispatches on what we found, on my return visit. This post focuses on the Tomb of Tut. I'll turn soon in another post to the orientation experience for Heritage Key.

I'm pleased that on almost all fronts that worried me, Rezzable's team has made some dramatic improvements to the areas I'd ticked off: lag, navigation, avatar customization, and stability.

On Nov 4 EDUCASE held a great first time ever  event that brought together valuebale educators together in different grids, and from different parts of the world. Roundtable leader was   AJ Kelton Director of Emerging Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University. It was Simulcasted  in-VX Live in Denver at 12:30 Denver time with the help of Ignatius who is in RL , Joe Essid, University of Richmond Dept. of Rhetoric & Communication Studies and Scot  Diener Ph.D from the university of Auckland.

Heritage Key  hosted  live audio stream via skype conf call and fed to HK Region

 info on session here

*Please join us again on Nov 18 SL-Edu Roundtable

1500 New York time

Both photos taken by Prad Prathivi at Heritage Key King Tut Virtual

If you have missed our King Tut Exhibit in Second Life or think you would like to see it again you can now visit us  in Heritage Key.  I will be organising hour long tours of the King Tut Virtual in the Heritage Key Grid. It takes only couple of clicks to have a sneak peek  or you can, of course, register yourself  in couple of minutes to have the luxury  of customising your avatar while exploring the great exhibition. Do you want to  know more about the virtual exhibition please read more here ... Also you will be the first ones to know what we have more coming up in the very near future. As you can read at Iggyo's blog we have been busy.

 Register so you can customise your avatar pretty

Yesterday, I have attended a roundtable discussion about Heritage Key and Open Sim at Montclair State University  sim grounds. For a copy of transcripts, please visit. Ignatius who is in RL , Joe Essid, University of Richmond Dept. of Rhetoric & Communication Studies has organised and led the roundtable with  Jon Himoff, CEO of Rezzable who is also know as RightasRain Rimbaud.

Regardless of the late hour of the roundtable it was extremely interesting.It gave a nice overall idea on the inspiration behind the content creation by Rezzable  in SL which started approximately 3 years ago, the reasons behind leaving Second Life and how Heritage Key commenced among all the other projects and where is Rezzable heading to with new projects. 

If you are enthusiastic about ancient worlds, artifacts and archeology as Honour is then you must read her latest blog  at Honour's Post Menopausal View about Heritage Key . As she says to visit us on Heritage Key is simple as couple of clicks away and is absolutely Free.

Location: Rezzable's Valley of the Kings in Open Sim

On my first tour of Rezzable's Heritage Key site dedicated to King Tut, and when the entire project was quite new, I was taken by the South Wall of the young king's tomb. It was an immersive moment; I felt that I was as close to the actual site in Egypt as I'd ever get.

 PANMA presents: Other Spaces: Virtual World Options Beyond Second Life

The Philadelphia Area New Media Association, in conjunction with the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, will be hosting an event on Wednesday, July 29th featuring speakers Pavig Lok and LIttleToe Bartlett of Rezzable. 

Discussion will focus on the benefits and challenges of developing on OpenSim based technologies - how running one's own private grid compares to working within Linden Lab run Second Life Grid™.