Second Life and Virtual Worlds
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 a nice article.
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 LifeTM. 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.
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;
January 19 at noon (SLT) is the Project Bento filming event casting call. It will be on Bento Island, ADITI (Preview Grid).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62hWZ4-dHeE
Contact Draxtor Dupress as filming will start on the 20th. Provide him as much information about your creation for Project Bento as possible.
Servers – No roll to the main grid this week. Maybe next week. The three RC channels all got the same update, which is mostly the addition of; BUG-10575 Feature Request: llGetObjectDetails() constant OBJECT_TOTAL_INVENTORY_COUNT and BUG-10646 Feature Request: llGetObjectDetails() constant OBJECT_PRIM_COUNT.
Inara has an update from the last meeting that looks complete and has audio from the meeting. See: Project Bento User Group update 2 with audio. She has broken the audio clips up by topic, which is handy.
For those short on time, the meat from the meeting: