Second Life and Virtual Worlds
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!
Hamlet has an article where he is pointing to Kat Alderman’s comment (here) on Hamlet’s article: Second Life No Longer a Creation Platform, But an End-Point Display for Creativity.
Kat’s statements that caught my attention are:
An in-development game named Ark: Survival Evolved is available through Steam. It apparently is drawing a crowd of players. Everyone likes dinosaurs. Gamasutra has an interview with one of the developers. See: Cretaceous creativity: Designing dinos for Ark: Survival Evolved. With Project Sansar approaching and Advanced Experience Tools on the verge of release game design … Read more
Industrial Light and Magic is a special effects company we know from movies like Star Wars. Now they are opening ILMxLab to build virtual worlds. The first will be the Star Wars world. Hypergrid Business caught my attention with: Star Wars coming to virtual reality.
The financial people think it is Facebook and Apple that are positioned to win in the Virtual Reality War. But, it won’t be a fast war. It will last years. Quoting Chris Ciaccia :
[A] Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster stated that virtual reality is likely the next key trend in technology, writing, “We liken the state of virtual and augmented reality today as similar to the state of mobile phones 15 years ago. It likely will take a decade before mainstream adoption as necessary improvements in displays and applications as well as lower pricing are needed to drive demand.”
They expect new virtual everythings to open up; gaming (obviously), live sports, concerts, immersive cinema and social experiences will have a VR version. The article, Facebook and Apple are Poised to Win the Virtual Reality Wars, gives us, at least me, some new ideas about VR can be used.
Second Life has its challenges for new players/users. Massively Overpowered started a conversation with the question: How Can MMO’s Design For Both Vets And Newbies? There are quite a few comments being added. It got me thinking about our challenges for new users in Second Life™. Many of the comments on Massively suggest removing leveling. … Read more