Month: July 2016

Oculus Rift Update 2016 w27

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For some time people have debated the accuracy of the hype around the Oculus Rift. Now as competitors enter the market there is; hype, spin, rumors, and lies about the various Virtual Reality (VR) Head Mounted Displays (HMD). LinusTechTips provides a video to give people a sense of what the facts are. It appears HTC … Read more

AvaStar Update: 2.0 Alpha-4 & Project Bento

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Gaia Clary announced another update of AvaStar 2 is out. This is not the production version. This is the Alpha version with Bento support. In the announcement Gaia explains the current problem people are debating. The video by Medhue shows and explains what is being talked about.

Gaia says this alpha version of AvaStar complies with the current proposed Bento model that includes rotation and translation. But, there are concerns about the Bento plan to allow rotation and translation. See the release announcement for a longer story or below the fold for the shorter version. This is an extensive document. If you are animating in SL, read the thing to understand what is coming. 

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Project Sansar: What’s Different? Has Linden Lab Learned Anything from Second Life?

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Stephanie Condon wrote Second Life™ Lessons: What Linden Lab is doing differently with its new VR platform for ZDNet’s Between the Lines, a sort of technology meets society section of the site.

Let's party
Let’s party

Stephanie points out that Second Life (SL) was thought to be the tech revolution to take over the web, way back in 2006-2007 when an Internet in 3D was imagined. But… it didn’t happen. SL has remained profitable. It just didn’t catch on as people expected. 

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Second Life News 2016 w27

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Servers

Surprise. There is roll of a new package to the main channel. I did not expect that the day after a Monday holiday.

This is the package that has been running on the RC channels. It contains security fixes… or a fix… depending on how and what one reads. Also, the Bento animation file size for animation uploads is increased. And there is some fix to email address problems from within scripts.

Adah
Adah

There is no roll to the RC channels this week. So, the entire main grid will be running the same server software. 

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Second Life: Oculus Follow Up

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Jo Yardley has obviously been watching the news about Oculus use in Second Life. It isn’t good. See: Second Life Oculus ready viewer released, fails to impress. Seems performance with Oculus has degraded between the time the first Oculus viewer was released and this one. That is disappointing. Jo provides links to SL Forum discussion on … Read more