This is the fourth of may be 12 articles about 2015. – To find the collection of Year End Review articles look in the right-hand column and click the TAG: Annual Review.
Second Life in Review: April 2015
Of course the first thing of the month is April Fool’s Day. The Lab released their new viewer made just for the day: Introducing 2DSS Mode for Second Life.
Wow, I pumped out 96 posts in the month of March. This is the third of may be 12 articles about 2015. – To find the collection of Year End Review articles look in the right-hand column and click the TAG: Annual Review.
March 2015 – 96 Articles
This month the Lab was working on rolling out AISv3. Problems were biting people as the transition was being made. Problems ranged from render fails to not being able rez from inventory.
「Hey Ho, Let’s Go」 – Taken in March 2015
March viewers were;
RC Login Viewer version 3.7.25.298971 – This one promoted to main release in March.
RC Tools Update Viewer version 3.7.26.299443
RC Maintenance Viewer version 3.7.26.299845
RC Experience Viewer version 3.8.0.299338
Project Avatar Layer Limits Viewer – This was the start of the project to change how we use layers on the avatar. Basically it changes the limit of how many textures one can wear on a given layer and sets the total limit at 60.
RC Hover Viewer version 3.7.26.299635 – The new HOVER Height feature made it to the main release viewer in March.
RC Tools Update Viewer version 3.7.26.299443
Project Importer Viewer version 3.7.25.298441
Project Layer Limits Viewer version 3.7.26.299805
Project Managed Marketplace Viewer version 3.7.25.298865
Project Oculus Rift Viewer version 3.7.18.295296
Word in March was that a viewer change to improve teleporting and crossing into another region was coming. Also that soon viewers will not install on Windows XP 32 or 64 bit machines.
Second Life™ made it in the news this week. PSFK ran an article titled: A Look Into a More Social Virtual Reality With the Makers of Second Life. This is an interview with Ebbe Altberg, Linden Lab CEO, and Senior Director of Global Communications Peter Gray. While referencing Second Life most of the information is about Project Sansar.
Collage of all the wireframe images on the new Project Sansar login page, made by Ernst Dommershuijzen
Both Ebbe and Peter think the social interaction in VR will be huge. While that is debatable, they have a lot of company.
Second Life™ made it in the news this week, again. This time at WIRED in an article titled: 5 Companies You Thought Were Doomed But Are Actually Fine (For Now). The title explains most of the story. The companies are; Dropbox, Pandora, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Second Life. There is nothing in the story we don’t … Read more
The UKanDo viewer version 4.0 has released. When going to download it I noticed their note that Flash won’t work with this viewer, unless you take some special steps. This is because v4.0 viewers have changed from older web tech, Webkit, to the newer Chromium Embedded Framework.
