 Hello everyone and welcome to the 2.30 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. session of the 2021 Open Simulator Community Conference. In this session we are pleased to introduce the presentation, Cherenet Creative HQ, integration of NFTs, AI Art, and POS Blockchain in 3D immersive virtual worlds. Our speaker is Sally S. Cherry aka Sally Cherry. Sally is an STI laboratory consultant and instructor who is also a tech geek. As a 3D immersive virtual worlds evangelist and virtual content creator, she is passionate about building 3D immersive virtual worlds, sharing special interest content, conducting clinical laboratory training, and fostering collaborative networks. Please check out the website found at conference.opensimulator.org for speaker bios, details of sessions, and the full schedule of events. The session is being live streamed and recorded, so if you have questions or comments during the session, you may send tweets to at opensimcc with the hashtag OSCC21. Welcome everyone, let's begin the session. Hello, hello, hello everyone. I'm excited to be here and I'm excited to share with you Cherenet Creative HQ, integration of NFTs, AI Art, and POS Blockchain in the 3D immersive virtual worlds. And I am going to try to be chatting with you in the nearby chat as I talk. I am sharing with you my, let's see, our mission here. Basically I have been in here for some time and my overall mission has basically stayed the same. I strive to provide capacity building, public awareness, and content through the integration of digital media, which includes social media, websites, photographs, videos, and etc. And 3D immersive virtual worlds as well as to foster collaborative networking, as was noted in my bio. My overall goal is to promote, educate, and network with real life and 3D immersive world communities in order to enhance, access, and deliver content, resources, and services to the integration of 3D virtual worlds and social media. Now I'd like to go the purpose of, of the Cherenet Creative headquarters. It has a distinct purpose here. I even trans redesigned one world just to bring this world forward. For all purposes to share my efforts as a creator to integrate real life activities related to NFTs and AI arc within 3D merger virtual worlds and a virtual projects and activities. Number two to increase general knowledge related to the creation and use of non fungible tokens, which is NFTs, artificial intelligence, AI arc, and proof of stake blockchains. And to showcase various collections of original arc and artificial intelligence arc as well as the artists and the creators. But one thing close to my heart is I use the NFTs and I'm using this particular world to help to for raising awareness about very special interests, such as endangered species and the number one endangered species I've been focused on is the monarch butterfly. Also community building laboratory science, public health and real life landmarks. Let me give you some of my history. I'd like to give you some of my history of why I'm even here. Since 2008, I've been focused on visualizing my vision. My vision is real to virtual, virtual to real. For medical laboratory science, for public health, appreciation and other real life topics of interest. Over the past 31 years of clinical laboratory training, I've always looked for tools to assist in the task of enhancing the understanding of a particular process and elevate net use through engagement, educating, which is basis for me is just basic information sharing and evaluating the results. Yes, laboratories are always testing the process. So anything we do, we're going to be evaluating the results. The primary tool has been integration as I define it. I define it as bringing together content, processes and innovative ideas to accomplish the task at hand. It's a real life. It was a real life process that brought me into the 3D Merge of Virtual World Community. The search for tools of integration started while awkwardly using a telewriter. Now some of you probably never heard about it. But I was using a telewriter in the early morning hours to conduct a medical laboratory session with several medical personnel in Egypt several years ago. They were in Egypt. I was in the United States. We were conducting this training course using a telewriter, which was quite interesting. But this particular task led me to seek out some other tools can be that could be used for distance learning or to share information. So why am I why I am still here? Well, I first venture into 3D Virtual Second Life in 2006. My experience was short lived due to being intimidated by the technology, as well as landed in the middle of a space that shocked my little avatar's eyes, as well as mine. I left the virtual world community only to return after more positive experience than now close to the virtual metal place in 2008. Some of you may have had a metal place. Some may not. That's basically where I got my footing in metal place and got the my community found my peeps in metal place. The community engagement and being more educated about virtual worlds and evaluating the success of several building projects while I was in metal verse motivated me to try to suck up life again. Then I discovered the open simulator community and the rest is history. I definitely have found my tribe in this particular arena. So as I was saying, going along, I was I shared that to help you understand my passion for connecting, communicating and collaborating within the 3D virtual world. My greatest passion is researching, curating and sharing special interest information. Hence the special interests worlds, including my most recent Kitely hosted world, ShareNet Creative HQ. It was established to serve as a vehicle or tool for the integration of my experience in the growing user community, non fungible to our tokens, better known as NFTs and artificial intelligence art AI art and our proof of stake blockchains and to my 3D virtual world communities. It is hoped that ShareNet collect a creative HQ visitors, including real life and virtual based artists will use the 3D virtual world to view the featured digital media collections while building the community for information sharing and formal discussions, skill building and collaborations. So some may say what are NFTs? And that question comes up quite often. Well, NFT is short for non fungible token, which is a unique non interchangeable unit of data, which may be music, anything but value. And it's stored on a blockchain, which technically is a digital ledger, which is also stored and a cyber currency stored on blockchains, but there's two different entities here. NFTs has unique identification codes and data meta data that distinguished them from each other. It links ownership to unique digital and physical items cannot be traded or exchange at always equal value. Contrary to as versus fungible tokens, which most of us are quite familiar with is the physical money, US dollars and whatever currency you're using in real life, as well as cyber currency such as tazzo's Bitcoin. Now, fungible tokens can be traded exchange one for another at always equal value. Now, the non fungible tokens, NFTs, they cannot be always traded at value equal value. So some people ask what is what can be a NFT? The perfect honest is things have been moving along just about everything and then can be an NFT. Any type of real or intangible items such as artwork, photographs, video clips, drawings, doodles, music, gift cards, a lot of your companies are getting involved now, providing gift cards for their customers, trading cards, constant tickets, sports highlights. I think a lot of you may be familiar with the MBAs. It's gotten involved with the sport of sharing sports highlights, digital collectibles, digital, even digital jewelry, just about anything you can think of can be mentored as NFT. And we'll go along with that. While one digital media may be artwork drawings and music, it reflects the creativity and the storytelling of the creator with or without the assistance of artificial intelligence and algorithms. So that's one of the things, no matter what you're putting out there, something, well, I don't have anything to share. Well, you would never know this has had some value. It can be created into NFT. The majority of the digital media on display in ShareNet Creative HQ has been mentored as NFTs, which helped to direct the traffic to that particular digital media. The focus should always be on the digital media, though the artwork, the music, that's where the focus should be and its creators, because the digital music, the digital media comes first. The use of NFTs and blockchains have to amplify the digital media media project also to acknowledge the respective creators and artists, aka the established owner of that creation, as well as generate compensation for the creator and artists. So NFTs can benefit artists, but also can benefit other individuals. Some may say, well, who can create NFTs? Entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, entertainers, and artists. You have a desire, have an idea. You can create an NFT, you can put anything you can create, convert it over to NFT. While many individuals may focus on creating NFTs and made available spaces for various reasons. Most recently, it seems that desire for financial wins, falls, was driving the train. I I have embraced 3D virtual worlds, NFTs, AI art, and proof of stake blockchains as basic tools to keep my vision moving forward. The vision of real to virtual, virtual to real. At this place and time, the integration of these particular tools has embodied my vision. Some of you may ask, well, why use NFTs? Well, one of the things I like about NFTs, actually, as I said before, can use them to amplify your digital project. For this particular project I'm doing, I have here, I am using it for a save monop butterflies campaign, making people happen to make people aware of the potential of the monop, the status of the monop butterflies. NFTs is a natural tool for that and in the picture you can see the images that are showing, they were created by artificial intelligence. So I'm using artificial intelligence art here and I made it into an NFT. And by putting it onto the blockchain, I have more greater exposure, more individuals can see here the measures that I want to put out there about save the monop butterflies. This one I'm putting in the sharing information about bringing awareness of African wildlife that are also in danger, information sharing. Whether you put out your NFT, create your NFT, you can put a description in, so you can put information that you wanna share about the particular calls that your images may be reflecting. And note the images can be original images and they can be artificial intelligence images. Now I'm gonna just kinda quickly go through the process here. Just give you a better understanding for those who are still asking, what are NFTs? What do I have to do? I was quite intimidated or felt a little questionable about how do I do this process? Because I first started, I reached out to some colleagues of mine who was quite involved with that and they walked me through the process. Then they encouraged me to do my research and that's why I encourage anyone who's interested in using MFTs, artificial intelligence, or use them blockchains, maybe whatever, do your homework, research to get more information to understand what fits your purpose, what fits your mission. So basically what we have here is, I'm gonna have to, just some general steps and I may have left out a couple here but I just wanna give you some idea of the various steps and creating the NFT. You're gonna decide on a blockchain to use for your MFT, you could have to the end that comes with it. That's where you're gonna learn in your research, which one fits your purpose. You're gonna decide on what digital media you wanna create. You're gonna create your media, you purchase cryptocurrency that is accepted by the chosen blockchain. You choose a marketplace to sell your NFT, you set up a blockchain compatible wallet, you upload your wallet to the NFT marketplace. So the marketplace is not where, whatever marketplace you use on platform you're using to upload your NFT, that's not where your NFT stops, it goes to the blockchain. So you're gonna then once you upload your digital medium, which may be music, may be art, you're gonna add the requested information which would include your name, your title, the description, a price, the number of issues that you wanna sell. Some, most individuals sell one-on-one, some may put a certain number out there and you can also set the percentage for your royalties. I'm gonna plug that in for you. So I mentioned, see Mr. I mentioned artificial intelligence. This is artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence art, just basically some may ask, I have the, what is artificial intelligence art? It's defined as any artwork created with the assistance of artificial intelligence, created independently by artificial intelligence systems or created through a collaboration with a human and an AI system. When the AI system is assimilation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. So if you see here, these, all these images are shown here. I use text content, I gave a sentence and what I wanted to certain things to do, I gave a sentence with certain words or topics and I put it into a AI app and there's certain different ones you can use, there are different ones out there and it gave me the images that I particularly, I was looking for, I didn't know what I was gonna get but it was close to what I wanted to use, especially for the awareness for the ask them wildlife. The images came up perfectly to reflect that concept of supporting the wildlife. Now, going to the blockchain, when I mentioned blockchain, it's a digital ledger that keeps record of ownership and transactions. You have the option to use a proof of stake which I mentioned earlier or a proof of work. Now presently, I've elected to use a proof of stake blockchain, most, the most popular but most frequent use blockchains is the proof of work. As I've learned about the, I'm still learning about the pros and cons of the blockchains, but I, like I said, I have elected to use a proof of stake because number one, it's less expensive for transactions and it's more energy efficient. And many of the individuals in my target audience may not be able to afford the gas fees of a proof of work. I'm looking to work with nonprofits and individuals who are basically self startups. And this is why I decided to go with the with the proof of stake blockchain. Now, one of the things I, when I, at the top it is said, and when you came in, you saw it says non-traditional and non-traditional galleries. And that's what shared net creative headquarters reflects. We have, every area of the region has a gallery some are traditional galleries inside of a building. Some are non-traditional galleries outside of the building. So what I've listed here is some of those particular spaces, parcels that we have created on and within this world. And what you see highlight here, we have our, in the welcome center, this is another AI collection. This is one I created myself around the U.S. the United States around four, I mean, I created around fourth of July, but it gave me some awesome pictures. I got quite a few pictures, a little like Statue of Liberty. In this center is the gallery. And this year I called it, this is our traditional gallery. And this is a, we have, I have a not necessarily a collaboration, but a colleague created a NFT for me, using original art, his original art. He didn't use artificial intelligence, he used his original art. And the park is our main space that we use outside space, we use to display the artwork. And this is another way I see, visualize using 3D virtual worlds to amplify your measures, to use the spaces and not just leave it here. I also capture pictures, share them on my social media platforms, so people can see what is going on in 3D virtual world. So a lot of interest now, especially now, but I'd like to let them know we've been doing things going on strong in the 3D virtual worlds for some time. As goes back to my whole vision, real to virtual, virtual to real, real life inspires virtual based projects and activities, virtual based life amplifies real life projects and activities. So use the tool of integration. I constantly integrating my real life into my virtual life to get my measures out, to educate, to train, to share information. So as it was stated earlier, yes, I am as a 3D merger virtual evangelist, I am passionate about building 3D virtual worlds, passionate about sharing relevant information. That's the reason I use my real name within the open-simulator community. Another reason I do laboratory training in here but one of the reasons I use my real name because the real life and the online communities have been integrated with my 3D virtual world. In real life and some online communities, I am known as the chief silo buster for social, for chair and consultant network. And we have the domain chiefsilobuster.com. This coach reflects our concept of communicating, creating and collaboration. Virtual network Weaver is another name I go by because it reflects the mission. Both of these names reflects the mission that has been integrated into my virtual world projects. So I invite you to visit my booth. I have a speakers booth here. I invite you to visit my speakers booth on zone three, booth number 17, it'll be up for a while. And I invite you to visit my laboratory booth which I have on display a 3D model of the SARS-CoV-2, COV-2 virus. I'm a laboratory and got a set of the virus that is the cause of the agent for the COVID-19. So I'm making some adjustments. We had to make, add some more things to it, just got some new information to add to it this week. So that will be there for the coming year. And I invite you to visit both booths as well as the other booths within the space. If there's any questions and I, and that is, that's the team at SharedNet Creative HQ team. I am divorced, they're my hands and my feet. Feel free to come and visit. And you can hear, see more, learn more about my work. If you go to my link tree, link trees, reel to virtual to reel and we'll connect you in. Any questions? Okay, we have time maybe for just for one question. Someone asked if your dad was a railroad man. Yes. Okay. Okay, I think that was just the question, your dad was a railroad man. If you know that my father was a railroad man, have them to contact me please. Okay, contact Sallie if you have that question. Yes, contact me. Okay. And I think we're gonna wrap it up with that. I have, I have. Fascination presentation. Can I just introduce you for just one second? Sallie, if you have resources on like where folks can make the kind of AI art related stuff, I think that would be useful to share and chat to, you know, so. Great, no problem. I came across some links and I would share them in there and what I would probably, I will put at my booth a take away so they come by the booth. They can also get it there. I don't have it with me here today but I'll put that at the booth so they can come back and we can even talk about it later. I'll come visit the space. Okay. Thank you. I'll leave me back to you, Galen. Okay, that's quite all right. All right, thank you. Thank you Sallie for an informative and interesting presentation. As a reminder to our audience, you will want to check out conference.opensimulator.org to see what is coming up on the conference schedule. Following this session, we have a break and the next session begins at 3.30 PM in this keynote region and is entitled AI augmented 3D visualization in the metaverse via scientific virtual observatories. Also, we encourage you to visit the OSCC 21 poster expo in the OSCC expo three region to find accompanying information on presentations and explore the hypergrid tour resources in OSCC expo two region along with sponsor and crown funder booths located throughout all of the OSCC expo regions. Thank you again to our speaker and the audience.