Second Life and Virtual Worlds
[Posted 2:10pm PDT, 4 June 2012] We will be performing rolling restarts for all regions shortly. They will begin today, June 4 at approximately 2:15PM PDT. Please refrain from rezzing no copy objects, making inworld L$ transactions and remember to save all builds.
I suppose this is due to the Tp Griefer attacks.
Today we are seeing new griefer toy creating chaos.
The new Linden Realm’s Advanced Creator Tools currently in Magnum is being user to create teleporters with broken permissions. When taken outside Magnum the toys will teleport people without their permission.
This morning I got to see the Cornfield for the first time. Then they teleported a load of people into the Scripting UG Meeting.
An immediate fix is for a region owner to turn scripts off.
Or, if your region is in the Magnum Release Channel it is immune.
Otherwise expect chaos until the Lindens figure out a fix, which may be to roll the package running on Magnum to the main grid.
PS: Motor Loon says, “Hi mom!”
UPDATE: The server updates rolled late Monday seems to have fixed the problem.
Ginette Pinazzo sent me this bit of news.
***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***
SLACTIONS 2012: Research conference on virtual worlds will include Machinima Contest this year
SLACTIONS, the international research conference on virtual worlds, is including a Machinima Festival this year as part of its exploration of met averse creativity. The RL/SL conference will occur November 15 – 17 with the Machinima track on the first day, and virtual film directors are encouraged to submit their works for consideration in this global event.
Now in its fourth year, SLACTIONS is an annual international conference held simultaneously in several countries on the topic of metaverse platforms. Topics range from educational research to content production, from gender studies to media distribution, and from metaverse-based branding, advertising, and fundraising to emerging mash-ups and technology applications. SLACTIONS is unique in its format too, as a one-of-a kind event conducted both in a metaverse platform (Second Life) and on-site in multiple countries throughout the world. SLACTIONS contributes to the current redefinition of the way we think about hybrid online and on-site scholarly collaborations. The show concept is “Life, imagination, and work using metaverse platforms”
I’ll do the indexing to this podcast a bit differently, just because… I used the outline from MetaReality’s page and added to it. Hear the podcast here: The Status of Virtual Worlds.
Again I paraphrase things. What I write is my take away from what I heard. This is a good discussion and has some good information on the possible future directions of Second Life. It also is the first I’ve heard of someone criticizing the mobile Apps explosion and putting it in realistic terms. I’ve wondered how people were going to deal with data caps on their phones.
Second Life 9 Birthday… I saw this and thought it too funny to pass up.
[youtube TCblxZu20ew]
I was curious what is going on with SL9B and what the LEA deal was about. I saw that there was something about it in MetaReality’s lates podcast, May 18 – link.
Remember. At best I only paraphrase. While the podcast is intersting, there isn’t much I wanted to expand on or things I was that into… so I didn’t write much. But, the time marks should get you to anything you want to hear.
00:20 Start with SL9B
I’ve been busy with RL clients and not keeping up with SL. So, the cast was interesting. Daniel Voyger has a good article in what will be happening: SL9B resident centralized birthday formal announcement.