Highlights From This Issue:
Historic Hollywood Premiere Active Worlds Reunions Active Worlds Community Festival Community Resources
Active Worlds News, Product Highlights, ContestsHistoric Hollywood Premiere Takes Place in Active WorldsMay 24th saw Active Worlds breaking new ground again with the first ever online virtual movie premiere. In conjunction with the Columbia TriStar Interactive division of Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment, and Centropolis Interactive, Activeworlds.com hosted the premiere of the recently released The Thirteen Floor film.Over 300 people gathered online from all over the world to chat with premiere attendees including the film's stars Craig Bierko, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gretchen Mol, and Dennis Haysbert; as well as many of entertainment's biggest stars, including Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas, Will Smith, Jean Claude Van Damme, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Sarah Michelle Geller. Check out the reviews and scrapbook at http://www.activeworlds.com/premiere.html .
If you haven't checked out the 13th Floor world yet, head on over!
It's a multi-dimensional time trip to remember.
Designed for the business that requires a stand-alone World separate from the Active Worlds Universe of Worlds. This product gives the administrator full configuration control over the World. All servers start with 1 million square meters of virtual land, and the price is based on number of simultaneous users and land size. Designed for both Internet and Intranet applications.
Custom configurations available, please call or email for details.
Building forts, camping out under the stars, taking arts and crafts classes, playing games, listening to scary stories and eatin' smores around a campfire? How cool does that sound? This summer we will be hosting the first ever Active Worlds Summer Camp! Campers will be divided up into teams, each with their own team world in which to build their fort. We'll have cool advanced building classes and contests, and even a few easy how to make your own object lessons from the experts! There will be lots of games, virtual field trips, and chances to make new friends. The first session will be July 15th-July 30th. If you're under 18 and interested in being a camper, or over 18 and interested in being a counselor, then email us to sign up!!!!! camp@activeworlds.com
July 1st is the deadline to get your report cards in to be considered for this round of academic achievement awards. Remember, you don't just have to get straight A's or 100% to be considered, we have awards for improving your grades over the whole year. So if you think you didn't do too well last term, but you really worked hard and showed your stuff this term, send us both report cards for consideration! For more information contact Lucrezia Borgia and E N Z O
at edu@activeworlds.com
or check out the web site at http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/
Our Building Inspector, Floyd, is really quite a nice guy. He's down-to- earth, friendly and helpful. He lives in a nice condo in Metatropolis; and in his spare time he enjoys bowling in AWGames and skiing in Winter. Oh, and ladies, he's single and very handsome - a real 90's kind of avatar. Our Building Inspector is also very dedicated to his job, and works hard to assure that everyone gets the most bang for their framerate when they build. While his messages can be a little frustrating at times, he's got your best interests at heart! Here's a few tips that he wants to share with you in the hopes you can avoid his warnings! Do you often get this message? Building Inspector: "Try building somewhere else because this area is full." This means that you have exceeded the data limit for the cell you are building in. Each cell is a 10x10 meter column of space and in most worlds a single cell can store up to 1500 bytes of data, which is enough room for about 40 objects. The more extras you add or the more layers you create, the more likely you are to hear this message. Some tips to get around this message:
Floyd also recommends that you check the Help Files under Building Tips
for more information!
abc, Simple Geometry, one of the really cool AWCOM public building worlds!
Millennium World, a growing youthful community :)
Pollen, an truly unique and bizarre place to visit and live.
Brenda's UFOs and Spacecraft, a clever show of creativity.
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Chameleon's MegaCannon in AW, one of AW's most entertaing historical sites!
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Community EventsFrom the AWEC Calendarhttp://www.awcommunity.org/awecJune 1999 EventsJune 5th, 9:00PM VRT Cy Awards Gala (AWCC)http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?awcc http://www.awcommunity.org/cyawards cyawards@awcommunity.org June 6th, 12:00PM VRT Pagan Treasure Hunt
June 6th, all day Grand opening of MUSIC world
June 6th, 1:00AM VRT Grand opening of NsideOut
June 12th, 9:00PM VRT Opening of "The Chaos" - a joint exhibition
June 12th, 10:00PM VRT Grand Opening of Betaville
June 12th, 11:00PM VRT ZGV's New Art / Artist Exhibition
June 13th, 7:00PM VRT Community Show Off
June 26th-27th, ActiveWorlds Community Festival '99
June 26th, 8:00PM VRT AWEC's Trivia - grand finale
June 27th, 9:00PM VRT CHERi & Dmc2u Wedding
To let the community know about your upcoming event, please submit the
registration form on the Active Worlds Event Committee's web page.
A'tuin Treasure Hunt
Prayer Meeting, Sundays midnight VRT in Christian
Astrology & Relationships discussion, Mondays 1:00AM VRT in A1stLove
Bible Study, Thursdays midnight VRT in Christian
Construction Classes, Thursdays 7:00pm VRT in Spanish
Tours of Mundo Hispano, Fridays at 7:30PM VRT in Spanish
"Tech Talk" with Active Worlds lead developer Roland Vilett, Fridays at 8PM VRT, in AWUniv
News From The Active Worlds CommunityMeet Old Friends And Make New Ones At A Reunion This SummerLast year more than 50 people met in real life in Las Vegas, and hundreds more joined in the fun in Active Worlds. This summer, there will be 4 Reunions held worldwide over the July 22-25 weekend. There are groups meeting in Myrtle Beach, Ottawa, Brussels, and Melbourne, as well as events planned in Active Worlds for those who can't make it to a real world event. For more information check out the Reunion world in AW.http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?reunion
We hope to see you at the Reunion!
June 27th it will be 4 years since the public release of AlphaWorld. In this world, being the largest world and so to speak the 'Mother' of the Active Worlds Universe, most of us learned to know our community. So - how about celebrating its Foundation Day?:) AW Events Committee is initiating the ActiveWorlds Community Festival '99. All communities, groups and individuals are invited to host events and gatherings all over the Universe. Your event can be included to the official festival programme - and the winner of your contest can even grab the main festival prize:) You are also challenged to design the new official AlphaWorld flag - the flag entries will be voted on by the festival guests! Details on the festival programme, festival news, how to register your event, and more - can be found at the Festival web page. http://www.awcommunity.org/festival99
The Active Worlds Events Committee (AWEC) is looking for a person to help out with advertising events as well as the presence and purpose of the AWEC. You will work as part of the AWEC Core Group as a team player. Recommended qualifications:
To apply, or for more information:
Contact AWEC :)
Dear Lucrezia, Here's a little addition to the Activeworlds Guinness Book of Records (if there is one, and if there isn't one and it was created because of this electronic letter, I'd like to have my name in the credits :) ) Here's the addition, look at http://members.xoom.com/_Bug_/images/pkrecord.jpg
The Bug (citizen # 267836).
Check out the web site to see the nominees and root for your favourites! http://www.awcommunity.org/cyawards
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