OPENING:

Date: Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008
Time: 5:30 PM PST

Please attend either virtually or in person in the SpaceTime 2008 Gallery, located in the SIGGRAPH Village at the 2008 SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles.

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WILL TELL YOU HOW TO GET STARTED WITH SL. PLEASE READ ALL THE DETAILS AND CONTACT THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE WITH QUESTIONS SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO THE SPACETIME EXHIBITION:

Shelly Forbes - sforbes@otis.edu
Michael Wright - mrwstudios@earthlink.net

In World:
Mrags Writer

You need to start by downloading SL and installing it on your computer by going to: www.secondlife.com

To attend virtually:

1. Go to: secondlife.com and click the “Get Started” link.... Follow instructions they provide to create an avatar.
You cannot go or do anything in second life without the avatar.
2. Once you’ve completed the forms (be sure to make note of your avatar’s exact name and your password -- the system is case
sensitive), you will be directed “in-world.” If there is time, please complete their training re. movement, search, teleporting,
and communicating.
3. With Second Life running in the background, launch your browser and enter the SLURL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Otis%20Island/243/166/24/?img=http%3A//ospace.otis.edu/files/M48247
cad01590.jpg&title=Otis%20Exhibition%20Space&msg=SIGGRAPH%20Student%20Show

When you use this URL, you will see "NO SL DATA AVAILABLE".

In order to get the data, you need to go to or launch Second Life which the page will allow you to do." Go to the second life window and you will see a small window saying “Otis College of Art and Design” with a teleport button at the bottom of the window.



Push the button and you will be teleported directly to the island.



NOTE: There will be an in-world tutorial on the Otis Island and we would like all people who are unfamiliar with SL to attend. However, before you can come to the tutorial, you need to get yourself started with an avatar and the software (above).

Rick Barry
ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee Chair

Dena Elizabeth Eber
ACM SIGGRAPH SpaceTime Curator

Michael Ragsdale Wright
Shelly Forbes
Second Life / SpaceTime Moderators
Otis College of Art & Design

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ACM SIGGRAPH is grateful to the
Otis College of Art & Design
for hosting this event.