We aren’t hearing much about Sansar these days. Inara did come across this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCkcbRckqY4
Nalates Urriah
Second Life: Oculus Follow Up
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 Oculus.
Third Party Viewer Update 2016 w26
Some third party viewers have new releases out. I’ve been meaning to mention that. I’m a little slow getting to it.
Alchemy 4.0.0-37571 shows as being released 6/26. Alchemy now uses automatic updating. It also adds a built-in Animation Override and ‘enhanced’ environment tools…
Second Life: Specular Maps Tutorial
New Work Notes has posted a rare tutorial: Metaverse ProTips: Building With Second Life Specular Maps. Well… I think rare for NWN.
This is a good tutorial on how specular maps are used in SL.
Second Life: Oculus Rift Viewer Updated
I mentioned in the Third Party Dev article earlier today that the Oculus Rift Project Viewer updated. It jumped from version Second Life Project Oculus Rift Viewer version 3.7.18.295296 (like 2 years old) to version 4.1.0.317313 (7/1/2016).
The video is dated: Mar 25, 2016. – Remember. Unless you run the video through a VR headset, it is totally bogus when it comes what the experience is like…
Second Life Third Party Dev news
In week 26 the Third Party Developers’ meeting ran 47 minutes. As it is a holiday weekend in the USA many of the regular attenders were not there. But, we did get some good information and lots of dates, which is unusual. So, this gives us a good guide for what is coming and when.
Viewers
Second Life Inventory Message Viewer version 4.0.6.315555 – This RC viewer is almost certain to see a Tuesday promotion to the main viewer.