Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Nalates Urriah A blog named MoviePilot has a NICE article about Second Life™: Second Life: How to Navigate an Online Virtual World (and Maybe Even Make Some Money).
Sex is mentioned in an adult way. 1920’s Berlin is mentioned.
In general this is one of the best articles I’ve seen about SL in some time. Please click over and check itout.
See: Brave Dinosaurs & Win Prizes in PaleoQuest!
Well… if you read this blog or any of several others, even if you read only the Linden Blog, the arrival of VMM and the Merchant Outbox ceasing to work is no surprise. But, the forum is full of people that are shocked and outraged that the Lab would make such a change without telling them. And there is a flock of mental midgets that can’t imagine why the change was made…
Send such people this link: Linden Lab Official:Viewer-Managed Marketplace FAQ.
Massively Overpowered (MO) posted: These Are The Companies That Are Trying To Build The Metaverse. While Linden Lab (214+ employees) is mentioned so is their competition; Altspace VR (20± employees), Facebook, and High Fidelity (). It seems Comcast and the Japanese company Tencent are investing in Altspace.
Palmer Luckey is mentioned as talking about it being harder to abusive in VR than in the current 3D virtual worlds we have now. MO doesn’t exactly point us to where it is Palmer is talking. But, their article is inspired by an article on Re/code and they quote Palmer, “Virtual reality will make it a lot harder to be a total dick to somebody online.” Re/code says Philip Rosedale, co-founder of Second Life™ and CEO of High Fidelity, agrees.
Yeah… week 30. I wrote this a couple of weeks ago and it got lost. The information is still good, so today it gets published.
Massively Overpowered pointed me to a video showing how big World of Warcraft is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=32&v=ihF0wJlYSus
SL Blogger Support has an article about problems some bloggers are having. One is in regard to voicing opinions. Check out comments below the article: She’s mad as hell and she’s not going to take this anymore!
You may be ahead of me on this. Blender updated July8th and I am just noticing it… a month later. There isn’t much that affects those using it for building Second Life Models.
See: Blender.org
Obviously I’m not working on my Blender stuff… RL work is picking up. Yay!
The list of new features is here (also download). About the only change that helps Second Life™ users is the Decimate modifier being improved.
Second Life’s Strawberry Singh has an article on Avatar Physics (booby bounce) with mesh bodies: Second Life Avatar Physics. It includes a link to this video: (dancing starts about halfway in)
Strawberry’s berries bounce…
Strawberry points us to Firestorm’s tutorial on Avatar Physics, which teaches you how to make your own physics layers. She has made her own layers for the Maitreya Lara mesh body. These are almost free (L$1).