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.

Location: Virtual Valley of the Kings

I was amazed that we got 18--or 17, with someone crashing frequently--into Rezzable's Virtual King Tut Experience. It was our group's first foray outside Second Life. It will not be our last. We plan visits to Metaplace and Reaction Grid soon.

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

RightAsRain Rimbaud, aka Jon Himoff, CEO of Rezzable, will give a talk in voice, with Q&A by educators, for the weekly Second Life Education Roundtable.  Topics will include the role of virtual worlds for education, Rezzable's decision to move more content to OpenSim, the Builderbot controversy, and Rezzable's vision for content creation.

The event run 2:30-3:30  SL Time next Tuesday, October 6, at the Montclair State University campus in SL:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Montclair%20State%20CHSSSouth/130/180/2

Have a question to put to Jon in-world? You can submit advance Qs here and as time permits, moderator Ignatius Onomatopoeia will ask them at the event.

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.

Sophie Yates at Profile Magazine Today has written a review on King Tut Virtual, spicing it up with a neat machinima. Miss Yates says this is the first time she saw this level of visual imagery quality with objects in this virtual world. Yeey! More friendly words: "I really saw the 3D effect there and the interaction for the viewer that was provided was very well done."

"There are quit a few good exhibits going on now but this ones the best 3D, interactive one that really demonstrates how in the future virtual worlds like SL can be applied to so many other subjects either it be history, in the medical field or in the classroom."

Read more by Sophie Yates and watch the machinima at Profile Magazine Today.