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July 26, 2013 Volume 1 issue 3: #3 updated
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Sentinel Weekly News

3D Emergency Service

by Founder Deighv , Friday Update
Don't forget, this afternoon 3DP will be changing ISP's and will be offline for a short period but you don't have to go without your 3D fix, hehe! I have setup a simple page at http://www.deighv.ca/ where you can visit/chat in any of 9 3D worlds, "Java" chat, eRadio and Movies are also available. http://www.3dpnet.ca/ is also open, if you're not a member there yet .... why not? I will keep everyone updated on FB until we are back online. Have a great day now eh .

IMPORTANT NOTICE

by Founder Deighv
3DPlanets will be offline on Friday afternoon July 26th as we are changing our ISP and getting new cable service. We shouldn't be offline for long, "hopefully" just a few hours, and we'll have service restored asap after the switch. I'll keep everyone updated via our FaceBook Group page. Sorry for the inconvenience!

An Open Invitation

by Founder Deighv
OPEN INVITATION: To any creator who has made VRML 3D Items/Worlds for other blaxxun communities that are now closed. We invite you to have your work uploaded to 3DPlanets.com, a still thriving chat community. Our upload limits are VERY generous, 400kb for the .wrl - 250kb for the texture and a Universal Textures Library which allows you to use unlimited textures for your creation. Multiple upload Creators can even get your own Shop! All Worlds and 3D Items remain the sole property of the creator, we don't make any unreasonable demands as to their useage like Some communities did. For further information please contact info@3dplanets.com

News from 3D Planets

by Medeusa
Hmm... well, one newsworthy item is for anyone who joins 3DP. They will get a 1/1 item of their choice IF I can make it, lol. Anyone returning gets the same deal, and anyone bringing a new resident in or a returning member one will get the same deal. So come one, come all!

The next scheduled party/chat date would be for Sunday, July 28st at The Hub from 5:30 PM - Midnite EST ---The Editor

Meet and greet Every Sunday 5 PM EST

Tenth Anniversary

by Deighv
Our 10 year anniversary is coming up on August 3rd ! Stay tuned for more news. From discussions we now know it will be August 3rd AND 4th at the HUB, from 5 - 9 PM (EST).

Tenth Anniversary

by jdb_educator
Trying to get details can be rough on the old editor. Here's what I mean:

Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : and i'll do my best to make my best for the 10th anniversary :D
Satellite Owner Storm 108185 : balloons for the hub too
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : fancy cake, and chocolate balloons :D
Sentinel Editor jdb_educator 5700 : good :) we need some tenth anniversary details for the news
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : it will be at the hub, of course,
Founder Deighv 391030 : Just ask me the questins and I'll provide answers John :)
Satellite Owner Storm 108185 : yeah we want a different hub too, did we mention that hehe
Founder Deighv 391030 : ...... if I can remember any details, hehe
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : if we did , we'll mention it again, arofl
Sentinel Editor jdb_educator 5700 : lmo ok: What are we doing fort the tenth anni!
Founder Deighv 391030 : Don't ask Now, hehe
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : some folks want chocolate, lol
Sentinel Editor jdb_educator 5700 : lol
FounderDeighv 391030 : Different Hub world huh?
Satellite Owner Storm 108185 : yup

Our Edited Pictures

This screenie is the current Hub at 3DP. We understand another new world may replace it for the Anniversary Bash on August 3rd
a picture of the current hub
taken by Cheyla, Sentinel Photographer

Here are two of our edited group screenies taken on July 21, 2013. The Hub or staff lounge is the world.:
http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Sentinel/images/1.jpg (86kb)
http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Sentinel/images/4.jpg (81 kb)

The following are the full screen images showing chat and sidebars. None are larger than 245kb.
http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Sentinel/images/2lg.jpg
http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Sentinel/images/3lg.jpg
This one shows five people in 3D (six including the editor taking the pic)http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Sentinel/images/5lg.jpg

Our Sentinel Archives

Our new archives are located at (no index page yet):
http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Sentinel/archives We have three items there now: Our first effort: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Sentinel/archives/sentinel1.html
Issue 1: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Sentinel/archives/indexA.html
Issue 2: http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/Sentinel/archives/indexB.html

cichlid's book

Sentinel Editor jdb_educator 5700 : cic, can i use your book in the news
Satellite Owner cichlid 94395 : sure go ahead
Places Director Cheyla 134680 : but we have the story she wrote about 3dPlanets at the library. it's awesome
Sentinel Editor jdb_educator 5700 : always lookin' for content

Here is the library link: for, a 3DPlanet Story, The Games We Play by cichlid http://3dpstory.blogspot.com/

Today's News

We're at The Hub tonight. jdb_educator, reporting! We usually find our news makers here. and you never know just what might come up.

Today we have chopped up some of our weekly convo from Sunday night's (July 21, 2013) chat in the Hub, Not a lot of news was gathered, but we did get a screen shot or two.
Satellite Owner cichlid 94395 : i think i am going to try 3d see what happens

Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : unfortunately it was me
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : good luck, it ate my chat
cichlid has left the group cichlid has joined the group
Sentinel Editor jdb_educator 5700 : good luck cic
Places Director Cheyla 134680 : good luck
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : all of it, java and html included
Sentinel Editor jdb_educator 5700 : made it, good job cic
Places Director Cheyla 134680 : so far so good
Satellite Owner cichlid 94395 : well made it this far. So far so good
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : hey AWESOME!!!
Sentinel Editor jdb_educator 5700 : crashes abound. tied to doing, even chatting lol
Places Director Cheyla 134680 : somebody's dancing on the table
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : hey Cheyla?? I'm gonna try to make some 'evil' art, think it'll pass inspection??
ferretlady has joined the group
Moon Manager ferretlady 99905 : trucking
Sentinel Editor jdb_educator 5700 : truck is tabling
Trucking1 100 : yes.
Places Director Cheyla 134680 : oooooohh i hope so Trucking1100 : table danceing..
Satellite Owner cichlid 94395 : testing voice
Places Director Cheyla 134680 : oh my
Satellite Owner cichlid 94395 : hey it works
Trucking1 100 : o my sound off here
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : yanno, lol, i posted both the codpiece and the chastity belt on fb
Sentinel Editor jdb_educator 5700 : lol not a lot of movement. inner dancing, a new 3DP craze!
ferretlady has joined the group
ferretlady has left the group

Trucking1 100 : i remember those days ererererererererererererererererer.
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : and the chastity belt created tons more talk, lololol
Satellite Owner cichlid 94395 : trying to remember how to work things
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : it comes back, lol
Places Director Cheyla 134680 : looking good
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : hey hey, ferretlady made it to 3D as well, hehe
Satellite Owner cichlid 94395 : there
Sentinel Editor jdb_educator 5700 : that's 4 in 3d
Satellite Owner cichlid 94395 : i can see me
Places Director Cheyla 134680 : yay!
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : when Deighv gets back, we're gonna have to try for another pic, :D
Places Director Cheyla 134680 : yes
Moon Manager ferretlady 99905 : that is good
Entertainment Director Medeusa 94420 : i see 5 in 3D, awesome!!!

Check out the epod!

There are movies online at 3DP! They change when Deighv gets some new ones. We wanted to check out the software so we opened the epod in a new page, which opened the cinema in yet another page. We closed down the extra pages and selected a movie. we began looking at Hansel and Gretel: Witchhunters The software worked perfectly for us for the 17 minutes we spent looking. We played with the controls and hope to finish watching it. Last night we watched Olympus Has Fallen. Everything went well until about 25 minutes into the movie we began experiencing brief lags as the streaming cache wasn't keeping ahead. We paused the video for a few minutes and had no problems the rest of the way through the movie. We had better success with Firefox than CrazyBrowser, but both worked.

Here is our Starhenge Tour at 3DP

We present our quick tour overview of Starhenge. None of the images reach 300kb. All are separate links waiting for your click
http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/295/Starhengetour.html

Here is our Planet X Tour at 3DP

We present our quick tour overview of Planet X. None of the images reach 300kb. All are separate links waiting for your click
http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/294/PlanetXtour.html

3d Planet Basics

You can go to http://3dplanets.com/ to explore.

3DP uses blaxxun 5.3 and Java. I registered and clicked 3d. I started using slimbrowser, but soon switched to CrazyBrowser Here is what we saw on that very first visit. Take a look at our 3DP screenies.

The Sentinel Weekly Staff

jdb_educator, Managing Editor
Deighv, reporter,
Founder
Toxic, Founder
Medeusa, reporter,
Entertainment Director
Cheyla, Sentinel Photographer,
Places Director

CVN Navigation

How We Understand 3D Worlds Today

The pattern of 3D worlds we are seeing in our research is becoming clearer. There are worlds out there. So far our research seems to break them down into three major online categories (all seem to have pay/premium options): different worlds targeting children and young teens; social sites for adults; and sex and dating sites. The uniqueness of a Cybertown focused on jobs, education and training, working together and various levels of political participation and competition is missing.

There is a fourth category of games, online and downloaded. The separation of these to a different category may be silly. Cybertown was a role play game as much as it was true virtual living to many of its citizens. Still, we will separate it.

Our FIRST 3D World Interview

We will do separate pages for each interview and post them here, until we have to create a separate page to archive our interviews.

Our first interview is with amazing_warrior from United3d as well as 3d Planets and 3dhappiness. (http://cvnweekly.50megs.com/292/amazing_warrior.html)

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