Second Life and Virtual Worlds
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[Posted 8:55 AM PDT, 12 July 2016] We are aware that not all premium members received their weekly stipends. We are currently investigating this issue. Please keep an eye on this [the Linden-SL Grid Status] blog for further updates.
The site Road to VR has an article about Nvidia and the changes they are making to improve VR performance and that tech moving into game engines. See: Unreal Engine and Unity to get NVIDIA’s New VR Rendering Tech.
Until recently video cards were given geometry (the mesh world), lights, and a camera position and they rendered an image. As the camera moved the geometry was reloaded shaded and rendered again with mesh and lights in relation to the camera. (Which is technically saying it backward. Consider the camera fixed and to change the view we move the world. Think of your computer screen as the camera. It sits on your desk never moving. Everything displayed on it moves. Thus the reason for reloading geometry.)
There is no roll to the main channel this week.
The RC channels, all three, are getting the same new package. It consists of minor internal changes… right.
Medhue has another video showing how sliders are working.
As I understand it, one has to use the Bento Experimental viewer to see this as it is in the video. The Experimental viewer is different than the Project viewer. See: AvaStar Update: 2.0 Alpha-4 & Project Bento.
This past week has seen more and more attacks on free speech and civil rights than any time I can remember. I don’t see where anyone is actually tabulating the frequency or even the number of attacks. So, I can’t provide hard data to prove an increase. But, there is no doubt there are attacks and they are legion.
We expect attacks on or systematic elimination of citizen speech in Communist countries. But, I find it amazing Socialists are gaining support as they attack rights and Progressives are joining in…
Germany
Germans sentenced for creating Facebook group critical of #migrant influx https://t.co/l0SeZlJ130 #tcot pic.twitter.com/VaUIIrXeOY
— The Rebel (@TheRebelTV) July 11, 2016
As our report shows, curbs on free speech have grown tighter. Without the contest of ideas, the world is timid and ignorant.
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In all areas of life, free debate sorts good ideas from bad ones. Science cannot develop unless old certainties are queried. Taboos are the enemy of understanding. When China’s government orders economists to offer optimistic forecasts, it guarantees that its own policymaking will be ill-informed. When American social-science faculties hire only left-wing professors, their research deserves to be taken less seriously.