RezMela – Ciaran Laval

In a fashionable couple of days for extending deadlines, the RezMela contest, being held on the Kitely grid, has been extended until August 31st. I previosuly blogged about this contest here.

For those wondering, the blurb about RezMela includes :

RezMela™ allows subject matter experts create, tailor and manage avatar based interactive 3D virtual training environments in minutes without any programming or 3D modelling skills. Our approach enables intuitive and deep control of virtual content components from our growing library. These functionalities help blur the boundaries between virtual scenario creation and manipulation. RezMela™ thus provides trainers with the much needed ability to calibrate in real time the flow and complexity of their custom virtual exercises. The need to match rapidly and precisely unanticipated changes in learning requirements is well established by virtual exercise designers and facilitators. RezMela™ is designed from ground up to address this outstanding need.

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RezMela are running a competition in Kitely with prizes on offer of up to USD$250.00. Now you may be wondering what the bloody hell RezMela is, we’ll get to that later, for now here are the details of the competition :

Category A – Photography Contest

You need to submit:

An in-world photograph taken using a RezMela scene
Text (maximum 100 words) to describe the scenario depicted by the photograph

Prizes:

Gold: $50
Silver: $30
Bronze: $20

Category B – Machinima Contest

You need to submit:

A link to an video (maximum 5 minutes) using a RezMela scene, uploaded to YouTube
Text (maximum 100 words) to describe the scenario that the machinima presents

Prizes:

Gold: $250
Silver: $110
Bronze: $40

Note that YouTube videos must be set to Public or Unlisted, and must allow embedding.

To enter the competition you will need to visit RezMela Competition or RezMela Competition 2 in Kitely. Please note that the contest deadline is Thursday July 31st 2014, 11 pm EDT. All submissions need to be made on or before that time.

For further details please go to : http://rezmelacomp.wordpress.com/

Ok so what on earth is RezMela? At a very basic level it’s a way of building and saving scenes for your sim in OpenSim. This way you can quickly load scenes for different scenarios, it’s an excellent idea for many use cases but it seems to be particularly useful for educational usage and education is the sector that the product blurb is aimed at with talk of virtual learning environments and such like.

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