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Visit To Reaction Grid: Tales of a Virtual Tourist

I’ve been a resident of Second Life for so long that I tend to to stick to the jobs there, which is mostly keeping Museum of Robots tidy and the events and exhibits running smoothly. It may be a wide and vast virtual world, but I don’t get out much.
 
It’s easy to forget the thrill of discovery of a new virtual world so when I had a chance to tour Reaction Grid http://www.reactiongrid.com/ today, I grabbed an avatar and jumped in. I could pick any name, so in the spirit of consistency, I remain Bibi Bayliss, with blue hair, on Reaction Grid.
 
It’s built on OpenSim and I accessed it via the Hippo OpenSim Viewer, so once I reached my destination it all felt very familiar, in a Second Life sort of way.
 
Reaction Grid says about themselves:
Create, learn, share and, explore on ReactionGrid - the 3D Virtual World for business, education, collaboration, and learning. We offer a PG/PG13 experience with content created by our residents (often refered to as Gridizens), and provide a friendly and open environment for all to come and share thoughts and ideas.
 
Reaction Grid’s team are Kyle, Robin and Chris, who spent a lot of time introducing me to their vision (BIG thanks, guys) , which is based on education and collaboration.
 
Their programming skills, teamed with a desire to visually express data in an online 3D world, leads to an impressive display of possibility - and if that sounds esoteric and kinda out there, just go visit. Once you’ve seen a ‘mummy’ that responds to electrical surges from real life and a sim-sized polytope, you’ll be sold.
 
Me? I headed over to the 1929 World’s Fair HQ sim, an exhibit of all the great new technology that the visionaries of 1939 presented…US Steel, where are you now?
 
Saturday nights they have old movies, and since Reaction Grid is a PG world, they host regular school field trips, where the kids learn to script and build.
 
Time (and object permissions) permitting, I’d love to set up a Museum of Robots annex on Reaction Grid, as the founding team are robot fans, and darned nice people. And to think we met on Twitter….

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