I’m NOT promoting Mixamo… I am not using any of their products but, they do have a fun new promotional video out for their upcoming Webinar: Bring Your Game to Life. They sell animated characters and tools to help build them.
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I think the illustration of a radically different user interface is great. I think that is something that could be done with LEAP Motion. It is something like what a new user interface for building with Oculus Rift might look like… or so I imagine.
The two countries most active in asking Google to remove content are Brazil and the USA.
Google has expressed the sentiment: The United States, too, has its fair share of censorship requests. While Google can’t be specific about legal matters, it appears that at least some of the requests come from overly-reactive local authorities.
Governments’ Attempts To Censor Google Have Doubled Since 2011
More details: Google Transparency Report
If you think Google, Yahoo, and Bing are providing equal access across the planet, think again. There are videos on YouTube that can’t see seen in some countries. There are search results that are not shown in some countries. It is not always the countries we may think of that are censoring our information.
Hamlet Au has an article titled: Oculus Rift Integration Coming to Second Life, Linden Lab Staff Confirm (Both Officially and Unofficially). I think in that article and in a previous article (ref) he makes several good points. And, it does look like Oculus Rift (OR) is coming to Second Life™. But, Hamlet doesn’t combine it with the LEAP Motion controller I think is needed to go with OR.
You are not going to be able to get a retail OR headset until at least 2014.
The video shows the OR with an omni-directional treadmill. That is NOT the kind of control system I am hopping for… but it might be good for me… but… how would that work in Zindra?
I am hearing lots about the Oculus Rift VR Headset. Some think interfacing it to SL would be a great addition to Second Life™. If you have seen the granny video, you have an idea of how impressive Ocular Rift can be.
Granny Video – 03:40 minutes.
There is no doubt she is impressed.
Are you having problems with Google Search? Gmail? Google Apps? You are not alone.
C|Net has an article up about the problems. See: Google Drive, Gmail hit by service disruptions.
I’ve run into several Google problems over the last couple of days. But, Google is saying they have it fixed now.
If you have a blog or web site, then you are under attack. Everyday someone is trying to steal your password and hoping it is the same as your banking passwords. Today Go Daddy posted a notice about problems a number of hosting companies are seeing right now. Continue reading
Everyone is looking forward to a browser being able to support 3D games and worlds like Second Life™. Mozilla and Unreal have worked together to get Unreal games running in a Mozilla browser. The demo that is out can be found on the Mozilla Developer Network site: BannaBread.
BannaBread’s Arena
To see the demo you will need Firefox. Or a browser with: Continue reading
I think we tend to forget that the problems we experience in Second Life™ are not unique to just Second Life. The growing pains in SL are common to all human endeavors. A current good example of that is the recently release MMOG SimCity™ by EA, Electronic Arts™. Try SimCity Problems on Google, 33+ million hits.
SimCity 2013
Also, it is interesting to see people’s takes on what is happening with SimCity. Erik Kain, contributing to Forbes, writes: Continue reading