Lorin Tone: "I Have No Words" at HIE

 Virtual worlds have a limited impact on our senses - no smells or tastes in the metaverse at present ... but while sight is the dominant sense we use here, sound is the magnifier of sensations and it deepens the immersive experience exponentially. But like visual effects, sound effects only really enhance the virtual experience when they are done right.

One of the highlights of the Park is Lorin Tone's build for HIE - it is so elegant and appropriate, the title is  "I have no words". It's a sort of interactive sound sculpture and fits the mood of our multi-language event perfectly.  

It is located on craft-world.org:8002:HIE 2 at the Expo in the HIE auditorium park, which will be staying up until December 15, so if you didn't get a chance to visit the whole thing yet, jump over and check it out.

Saturday at HIE 2023: German session.

 The first session of the 2023 Edition of the Hypergrid International Expo began with a ... well let's not deny it, a few teething problems!

 Lots of moving parts, to this complicated machine called HIE. 

But within minutes of getting started the event was already attracting a nice mix of audience both inworld, on Craft Grid, and on our YouTube channel, where the event is streamed Live. That's where you will find the archive of presentations, in the weeks following this event, so it's worth Subscribing to the channel so you will not miss out. Please Comment, Like and Share, too of course!

The program for the first session began with greeting in five languages - just to get you in the mood!

It was followed by the German session, introduced by Loru Destiny of ArtDestiny grid, a place full of paintings, 3d art, magnificent Star Trek regions and beautiful Fantasy landscapes, great music events also (Moses Rae is resident there) and of course, Loru Destiny's marvelous freebie 'shops' - she is a fantastic designer of original clothes for opensim, and has been for many years; she began with system clothes and now makes rigged mesh that everyone can enjoy. 

Loru Destiny

Loru is the organizer of Openim's "Modenschau: or Fashion Show events, featuring original creators of clothes in Opensim like herself, check out her youtube channel, it includes vids of her events and some very good tutorials!

Friday HIE !

 HIE 2023 took off today with a fantastic party event on region HIE 4 of Craft Grid. The venue? A piece of art by Nyx Breen the renowned RL photographer and builder on such art-rich grids as Pangea and Alternate Metaverse Grid. 

Hanging in the sky above the Expo park, Nyx's build is a three dimensional treat based on the concept of crosswords, where the letters escape into the night sky. Inside the floor features a trompe l'oeil effect that will make dancers dizzy!

HIE Schedule

Hola!  Coucou!  Hallöchen !  Hi !   Ciao! Oi! 

The multi language HIE event is only days away! 

Come on over to craft-world.org:HIE Welcome and check out the Subtitle Group joiners, and use the portals to get to the auditorium.

Please bookmark our Website, it's got lots of details about this event and about how people can participate at the next event.

Here is the upcoming schedule. for your viewing pleasure...Perhaps you remember from the 2017 event, if you don't speak these languages, there will be Subtitles to help you follow the presentations.

And maybe you or a friend would like to participate at the 2024 event, someone with a tale to tell or an invention to share, but who does not feel comfortable speaking in English in front of a crowd... if so, let us know.

As you can see, during each session there are 3 presentations, two are in the normal 'Talk' format f a conference, and one in each session is an artistic display. It's going to be a colorful and fascinating trip through different cultures, grids, countries, and languages! 

Let your friends know!! 

HIE Art

 The Hypergrid International Expo is lucky to have a huge number of talented people involved with the various aspects of the event !

We have some excellent speakers, some world class virtual performers, some well beloved grids and on top of all that, some great art. If you read this blog regularly, you will know that in the park that surrounds the auditorium there are Publicity booths or kiosks that celebrate the creativity and community of opensim. 

Installation by Azi Az

But interwoven in to that long path around three regions, you will also find many pieces of virtual art. 

Among the well-known names who have contributed to the art is Azi Az with this piece that sums up the challenge and the passion that communication creates in a global virtual society. 

Practice at HIE

Probe- Répétition - Prova 

HIE is about 2 months away, but the fun of rehearsals has already begun!

It's said that 75% of people fear speaking in public! So we salute our performers, and want to give them as much support as possible.  It is also useful for our filming crew to understand how best to set their cameras to make everyone look good!

Presenters need to do quite a bit. they prepare a 20 minute speech, with approximately 10  textures to display in a slideshow. They give the Translation team a document with the main points of their talk, which become the multi-language 'subtitles' that permit everyone to understand the talk.