Shengri La

Shengri La began as a research experiment in collaborative working space, to assist with communication between Fashion Research Institute and IBM Research during this official research agreement. The Fashion Research Institute team continues to focus its efforts on design and development, retail merchandising and marketing, and licensing of  content across a spectrum of digital outlets.

The Shengri La regions in ScienceSim focus on performance development and testing, with large-scale, complex regions being provided as part of Fashion Research Institute’s official research agreement with Intel Labs.  These regions generate data, which Intel engineers analyze and evaluate and use as a test case against which new developments can be tested.  In addition, these regions serve as a test site for new educational explorations into new ways to use OpenSim for educational efforts, including connecting OpenSim-based regions to the existing  web 2.0-based content repositories such as Wikis.

Images from Shengri La Spirit, Shengri La Chamomile, and various other early OpenSim builds:

 

Santa barely misses the tower!

The Bridge of Freedom, completed

A Sweeping View of the OpenSim Shengri La regions

Shengri la Belle from the West

Ducks swimming in the mere

Gazebo in the marsh grass in the twilight

The marshes of Shengri La Beaux

Night falls over Beaux

Almost done with RAW files and terrain textures

Retexturing the terrain…