Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Well… this January I’m seeing a lot of closings and endings. Cloud Party has announced it will be closing in February. The announcement is on their blog here: Cloud Party Joins Yahoo. I am not sure what it means when they say they are joining Yahoo. If Yahoo were buying Cloud Party, we would be … Read more
Cloud Party hasn’t said much about their Terms of Service (ToS) lately. That changed as they pointed out the major difference between CP’s and LL’s ToS’s. See: A quick review of our Terms of Service This dramatically illustrates what is needed to operate a virtual world service and what a company thinks they can get … Read more
Inara and Hamlet have just written about Cloud Party and Oculus. I am happy to see that Cloud Party is thinking Oculus Rift. But… really!?! In a web browser? If you saw my previous post you know that browser-makers are dropping plugins. Right now they can’t drop all of them because the replacement, HTML5, is … Read more
Cloud Party is advancing. New stuff is being added. There is a video out that shows a hover-bike in operation. Looks fun. [youtube bOhChjVw2E4] I still think vehicles in Cloud Party, Second Life, and OpenSim are lame. But, they can be fun.
Cloud Party™, the other virtual world, announced yesterday the development team has released a new feature: animated attachments, think avatar wings and tails. I suppose one could use the attachments for ears too. The team warns against animating faces as they are working on facial customization. Without digging into how they work I can’t say … Read more
This week Cloud Party rolled out some new features. Hamlet at NWN wrote about some of the changes: Cloud Party Adds Free Customizable Spaces, Social Sharing. The home page of CloudParty.com has changed. The page has images of “Builds” you can use for a private space. When you sign in you have an option to … Read more