As I promised in the previous episode, this episode gives detailed instructions on how to bring an advance team into Second Life through the Rockcliffe University Gateway.  Only a few of the details are specific to the Rockcliffe Gateway.  You can modify them to fit another entry point.  The posters and notecards are free to copy at Cookie Visitor Welcome Center.

Instructions for leading the advance team into Second Life

Advance Team:  A leader and a few Skype-capable people.

1. Log on to SL yourself and go to Rockcliffe University Gateway

2. Establish a conference call on Skype to include yourself and the others on the advance team.

3. Send the people to this web page:  Rockcliffe University Consortium, Gateway page 

One of the major inconveniences that are precluding the adoption of Opensim (and Second Life) based virtual world technology has been the impossibility to visit these virtual worlds using the browser. People are used to seeing everything inside a browser, and are even willing, in some cases, to download a plugin, but in general get discouraged when they have to download a whole new client, learn a new and complicated interface, etc.

That's why I got very excited when I found a reference, in Jeanricard Broek's blog, to a new release of 3Di's viewer-in-the-browser plugin, called  3Di OpenViewer. I googled for "3Di OpenViewer", and I found a fantastic tutorial by Zaki; in some minutes, I was running the viewer inside Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, and I was logging in to my own grid, Condensation Land!