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Second Life Bits Week 8

2016/02/22 by Nalates Urriah

Ciaran Laval writes RL is taking time away from his blogging. He’ll be a bit sporadic about posting. See: Brief Update. Darn. Ciaran is good. Inara Pey is responding to those saying they will never visit a Project Sansar world if there is no World Map… or I suppose in the case of Sansar it … Read more

Linden Fix It

2016/02/19 by Nalates Urriah

You may or may not have noticed the Lindens are talking more about what is happening behind the scenes in Second Life. See: Tale of the Missing ACK. The article is a good example of the troubleshooting often needed to find a problem.

Firestorm Team Thank You

2016/02/13 by Nalates Urriah

Jessica Lyon has posted on the Firestorm Viewer blog a thank you to the SL community. They have been raising funds mostly to pay for the Kakadu license.

Kakadu used to get lots of coverage in the SL blogosphere. Not so much anymore. Kakadu is the software Linden Lab and Firestorm developers license to handle compression and decompression of images.

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You may not know that Linden Lab stores all images/textures in JPEG2000 format. The format offers the advantage of faster and smaller downloads and larger and slower downloads by having different resolution images efficiently stored in one image file. While the format is an ISO standard, the process of getting an image into and out of JPEG2000 format is proprietary. There are open source libraries developers can use to make and use JPEG2000 format files. They aren’t the same as Kakadu.

Second Life in the News Week 3

2016/01/21 by Nalates Urriah

Annie Gaus, a reporter for the San Francisco Business Times has written In virtual reality, Second Life prepares for its second act. Annie interviews Ebbe Altberg. Starting with Second Life as a virtual world and moving into talk about Project Sansar. Nothing new here to those following Sansar in the SL Blogosphere. But, it is … Read more

Second Life: No Interest?

2016/01/21 by Nalates Urriah

With concurrent user count recently peaking at 57,000± and user group meeting attendance low I think it is fair to ask if people are losing interest in what’s happening in Second Life^TM. The answer is one of those things that is very subjective, because it is so difficult to get objective or complete information. So, most answers are opinion.

We see attendance at user group meetings at 10 to 25 people. Yet, we see 4 regions fill up for Firestorm meetings. The video above shows the casting call for Project Bento. About 10 people attended and 4 of use were bloggers or people managing the event.

A Lab Chat Web Site?

2016/01/20 by Nalates Urriah

Did you know there is a Lab Chat web site? There is. You’ll find it here: LabChatSL.WordPress.com. The site is run by a team of Second LifeTM residents; Draxtor Despres, Gentle Heron, Marianne McCann, Elrik Merlin, Petlove Petshop, Inara Pey, Aisling Sinclair, Arduenn Schwartzmann, DevinVaughn, Saffia Widdershins, and Jo Yardley.

According to the blog’s ABOUT the team is planning to invite various media people from Second Life to make presentations at Lab Chat. In the first post about Lab Chat in the SL Blog the plan was stated as;