Second Life and Virtual Worlds
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.
Another article on Second Life has popped up. It seems this one is spawned by the video promoting Remnants of Earth. You have likely seen it on several SL related blogs. (5 min video)
If you were starting to imagine the media was becoming more… accurate, balanced, truthful, and actually researching their thinking before writing, give that idea up. This writer seems to have formed most of his opinion of SL from watching the video.
See: Players Build An MMO Within Second Life, Looks Amazing.
At least there no erect noob photos… So, this article while not as accurate as it could be, doesn’t present SL in a false light. …if omitting comments about lag in a game like this isn’t a concern.
I am curious how gamers, the EVE and WoW type gamers, will review Remnants after they try playing it.
They could not announce this yesterday. No one would have believed it. I still chased down the announcement just to be sure. It is on the SL Go site.
It seems SL Go was bought out by Sony. There has to be some tech there that Sony wants for their VR. But, they aren’t interested in continuing the SL Go services. So, we have a number of users that are screwed.
However, SL Go is free until the end of the month, April 30, 2015. Click.
Tech Crunch has more details. See: Sony Is Buying OnLive’s 140 Cloud Gaming Patents.
I seldom see bloggers in the Second Life™ sphere tackle deep philosophical ideas. There are plenty of rants and opinions. But, I seldom see people go beyond their personal outrage or anger over something that has touched them. So, Strawberry Singh’s Mean Comments Meme was a bit of a surprise.
Ms. Singh has seen Monica Lewinsky’s 20+ minute address caught by and promoted by TEDTalks. If you don’t know TEDTalks is a part of the larger TED – Technology, Entertainment, Design – a non-profit working to promote ideas worth spreading.