Oh geez… I’m an avatar from Uru, my first MMO and virtual world experience. I was in MO:UL, Myst Online: Uru Live, the 2007-2008 reincarnation of Uru Live. When GameTap dropped the MMO verion of the game I moved to Second Life as a D’ni Refugee.

In Second Life I became interested in building things, i.e., clothes buildings, scripts. You can see my Market Place stuff here: Second Life Vending Machines

I participated in the Explorers Community Research & Development group in SL. We were exploring the limits of what could be done in SL and how to push our creative limit.

I am watching the various Myst-Uru recreations being built in SL, OpenSim, and other virtual worlds. These are getting more impressive over time. IM me in-world for info on these… there are links to most and info in this blog… but older posts have links into SL that may not work. For questions, comment here or IM me.

I have 4 regions in OSGrid, as of January 1, 2011. The main region is Nalands. 9 regions as of 6/2012, but mostly offline while I am learning about texturing and weight painting in Blender.

Playing and having fun.

Designers

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My Computer

This is the computer’s specs I’m using now, August 2012. I change it from time to time. So, older pre-2012 specs were different.

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz (2666.67 MHz)

Memory: 3326 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit Service Pack 2 (Build 6002)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation – ASUS  DirectCU II
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.17.0013.0142
OpenGL Version: 4.2.0

libcurl Version: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8q zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.1
J2C Decoder Version: KDU v6.4.1
Audio Driver Version: FMOD version 3.750000
Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded)