Second Life and Virtual Worlds
If you use a translator in Second Life, you know recent changes at Google have caused several models of translators to fail. You also know that since 2012 the viewer’s built-in translator cannot be connected to the Bing or Google translation services as originally planned by the Lab. Viewer translation is essentially broken. We have to use an add-on.
Following this blog you’ve seen the recent previous articles. (See: Second Life: Metanomics Translator Failing.)
Large cyberattack was carried out via Google
This is making the news today as we find out Russian and Chinese hackers have been into and are in the White House computers. This looks to be a finger to Obama by the Russians after the President said he was making a big push for cyber security… yeah, secure this.
Google advertising pushed links to Engage Lab that used exploits in Java, Adobe Flash Player, and Microsoft Silverlight to infect computers.
The attack lasted about 2 hours before Google detected it and shut it down.
The app Webpage Screenshot is apparently a spying program. A Swedish newspaper broke the story. Today Google is taking down the app and killing its ability to report to its master.
See: Google Chrome Extension Spying On You.
Sex is a big part of art. And there is no exception for photographic art in Second Life. If you haven’t heard of Domino Dupre (NSFW) check out her collection of erotic imagery from Second Life on Flickr.
You’ll find her composing a regular collection of erotic imagery that is shown on The Sexiest: PornStars’ blog. (NSFW)
There is an app for that… Ben Lang writing for Road to VR has published: Latest Version of ‘Virtual Desktop’ is Here, The Free App That Makes Your Entire Windows Computer Oculus Rift-capable.
If you have an Oculus or Oculus like HMD, you can download Virtual Desktop and see what the future may look like. Get the links from within the article.
Would you have thought…?
Massively Overpowered is carrying a story about how US sanctions against Russia is hitting players in Crimea. See: Sanctions Force World Of Warcraft, Diablo Iii Ban In Crimea.
The acronym MMO is about Massively Multiplayer Online, usually follow by a G for Game and in some cases RPG for Role Playing Game, but you knew that? Yes… Did you know MMORPG predates the computer gaming era? I bet not. Did you know the MMORPG type games with a persistent world evolved from MUD games? (Multi-User Dungeon)
MUD games were mostly mainframe based and were popular in the 1970’s. My dad told me of playing one by mail… I can’t even imagine what that was like. One turn per week… I complain about an extra 100ms of lag.
The Lab is continuing to hire people. Today the ad for a Senior Architect in Web Design is popping up all over the place. The Lab has been making an effort to hire from the SL user base and going outside when no qualified candidates are found.
See: Jobs AliBaba
The Designing Worlds peeps have done a show interviewing Draxtor Dupree. Drax is a good talker and he makes this an exceptionally interesting show. You can watch it on Prim Perfect here.
I am seeing articles about Second Life™ popping up much more often. Today I see another article appearing on PC Gamer. This one is by Ian Dransfield and titled: Remnants of Earth: the MMO inside Second Life.
Again, this does not appear to be written by one knowledgeable about Second Life. From just this article, I suspect whatever experience Ian has with SL is cursory. I suspect most of the story came from watching the video trailer about Remnants of Earth.
Aka: Second Life™ 12th Birthday… its coming around again. Daniel Voyager has a post about the regions for SL12B opening. See: SL12B regions have arrived.
His picture of the World Map view shows 12 regions. Otherwise there are no announcements from planners or the Lab. In recent years the birthday celebrations have become more of a user organized thing than a Linden sponsored event.