Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Now we know who made the Starter Avatars. š I think they are pretty neat. But, the Labās implementation of them is a bit of a problem.
The region Tableau she mentions is a fun place to explore. I used images from my playing there in a couple of my articles: Machinimatrix ā AvaStar Ticket System and Second Life News 2014-31 #3. It is a pretty neat place. Check it out.
It seems there is a bug in the SL Viewer. Yeah, I say that like there is only oneā¦ Well, youāll see this one if you take a snapshot using Freeze-Frame and then close the camera panel before your release Freeze-Frame mode. The only fix at that point is to relog.
Once you relog, open the camera panel (Ctrl-Shift-S) and turn off Freeze-Frame. You donāt have to, but I would probably forget it is enabled and take another picture, close the panel, and have to relog again.
This is about the part of Sony that develops games like; Everquest, PlanetSide, DC Universe Online and the recently released H1Z1. This part of the company is being named Daybreak Game Company by the new owners: Columbus Nova, an investment firm. (reference)
IsĀ Columbus Nova speculating on Virtual Reality or games in general?
Venture Beat has an article on Facebook developing apps for the Oculus. Well, gee, aināt that a surpriseā¦ NOT!
Chris Cox, Facebookās Chief Product Officer, explains their idea this way, āWhen youāre in Facebook, youāre just sending around these bits of experience ā a photo, a video, a thought.ā With Oculus they hope to create a fuller experience.
Some of these apps are so simple to build anyone can do it, or so says Chris.
See: Facebook says itās developing its own apps for Oculus.Ā
The fund raiser runs from February 21 to March 7. This is a Relay for Life fund raiser.
To raise awareness of the fund raising effort the organizers what people to paint Second Life purple. Color your avatar, shops, homes, whatever purple.
You get a free make it purple kit here: SURL.
A kickoff party is planned for Saturday 2/21 at 4PM on the American Cancer Society Island. It is expected to last until 7PM to 9PM when Special Guests Satin & Erin along with DJ Dianne Wycliffe will be heading up the party.Ā
Inara posted a transcript and audio recording of Oz Linden talking about Second Lifeās future. I referred to the same comments and loosely paraphrased them in Sundayās post. For a more exact sense of what was said listen to the audio recording. āWe are building a new product *in addition* to SecondĀ Lifeā
Bookmark that article. You will eventually find a low information resident babbling like Chicken Little. It will be a handy link to give them.
We know from talking with Simon and Oz Linden that there is a Next New Thing and they have said it is a large project. Simon said āhugeā. They arenāt saying anything else.
Jo Yardley has posted about the graphics available when world builders use the Unreal Engine. See: Stunning demo shows what is possible in VR graphics with Unreal Engine.
I am sure it will be pretty awesome to use the Oculus Rift HMD in a world like this.
Ciaran Laval has an article up on his site that gives a good summary of recent changes in Second Life and coming changes. See: Linden Lab Ask Us To Check Out Improvements To Second Life. Iāve mentioned some of these weeks ago but he goes into more detail and collects them into one place.
Daniel Voyager has a similar article: Linden Lab publishes upcoming improvements to Second Life.
Directly from the Lab: Check Out the Latest Improvements to Second Life.Ā