Today in class we went and checked out the University of Western Australia's Sim. There was a bunch of projects made by different students that were competing for a wealthy prize, which I can't remember at the moment. So anyway, this area had a big land and there was even artwork in the air, so naturally the sim provider set up teleport points for us to get around. The HUD that is on our screen was also incorporated in one of the artworks. I thought that this was a new way to view art, and potentially interact with it. You never know about something until you experience it. These students were very competitive with their projects, so they used many senses other than sight. They incorporated a lot of music in their work. There are also projects that you can go inside of, such as a giant head that seems to be pretty creepy (since my avatar seems so insignificant to it). When you go inside of the head, there seems to be parts of the brain and parts that seems like an anatomy project, very cool at the least bit! We also noticed as a class that this sim also happens to be a big platform in the sky. We have always been used to sims that were created on land by water. Very interesting.
The next student tour we had was a place called Enchanted Tales Sim in Enchanted Forest. This island had so much detail with such a massive, beautiful forrest. The trees were so huge, the biggest I've seen in a sim thus far, made my avatar seem so small and insignificant. I spent most of my time going around the forest getting lost, but it was okay because there was a lot of nice nature landscapes to discover. There was a lot of architecture that had "No Entry" marks. Too bad though because it looked like the best part of the island. There was an underwater area that had a bunch of tropical fish and sharks floating around. It inspires me to possibly make things not just on land but also on water? Overall, this island has so much detail from the sky, to the fish in the water.
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