Visit the VEL Demonastration Region

VEL Demonstration - restaurant_001

Please note:

As of August 2020 the VEL Demonstration region is not currently online. If you would like to visit the region, please contact Scott Grant (scott.grantATmonash.edu) to arrange for the region to be brought back online.

Alternatively, you can visit the Chinese Island region in Second Life by logging into Second Life (https://join.secondlife.com/) and searching for Monash University in the World Map.

We recommend using the Firestorm viewer to enter Second Life. The viewer can be downloaded from the following URL:

Choose your platform

You can visit the VEL Demonstration region online any time. If you are already established on another OpenSim grid you can hypergrid over to the VEL Demonstration region on the Kitely OpenSim grid using  the following hypergrid  address:

grid.kitely.com:8002:VEL Demonstration

Once you have logged into your own home region, paste the above URL into chat in your viewer and press Enter. The URL will appear as a hyperlink in chat. Click on the hyperlink to open a teleport window, then click Teleport.

If you are new to OpenSim you will need to complete two steps. The first is setting up an account on an OpenSim grid provider website. We recommend Kitely who can be found at:

https://www.kitely.com/

Once you have set up your account you will need to download a viewer which is the interface between you and the virtual world. We recommend Firestorm which can be downloaded from here:

http://www.firestormviewer.org/downloads/

Follow the instructions for installing the viewer on your computer. The download is not large and the fully installed viewer is also not large. Once installed, start up your new viewer and then enter your log in details (username and password) from Kitely (or whichever grid provider you signed up with). Log into your home grid or the Kitely Welcome region first then follow the instructions above for hypergridding to the VEL Demonstration region.

For instructions on how to set up the Kitely login on your downloaded viewer  please see:

https://kitely.atlassian.net/wiki/display/doc/How+to+Enter+Kitely+Virtual+Worlds