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Second Life Bits 2015-08

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PAINT SL PURPLE

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.

Paint SL Purple
Paint SL 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. 

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Second Life Continuing … for real…

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Inara posted a transcript and audio recording of Oz Linden talking about Second Life’s future. I referred to the same comments and loosely paraphrased them in Sunday’s post. For a more exact sense of what was said listen to the audio recording. “We are building a new product *in addition* to Second Life”

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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 ‘huge’. They aren’t saying anything else.

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Second Life Bits 2015-07

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Unreal Engine

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.

Improvements

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. I’ve 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. 

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Second Life Bits & News 2015-06

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Second Life Photography

PrimPerfect has an article up on photography. It talks about Strawberry Singh, Honour McMillan, and Wildstar Beaumount being interviewed in a ‘first’ show on Second Life Photography. They say a second show will look at post-processing of Second Life images.

The first show was this past Monday at 2 PM in Garden of Dreams at the Designing Worlds studio. Next Monday they will air the second show. You can catch the replay of the shows at the Treet.tv web site, on the SLArtist.com channel, the Aview TV Designing Worlds channel or on the Designing Worlds blog.

AvaStar’s Sparkles

Gaia Clary of Machinimatrix is aware some people are having problems getting Sparkles 50% discount. To help them out she has posted: Troubles getting Sparkles Discount.

Servers

This week the main channel gets an update. It is the Experience Tools permission fix update. Release Notes. 

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Second Life’s Friday TPV Meeting 1/30

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In last Friday’s meeting all the Linden news was covered in 8 minutes. The entire meeting was only 30 minutes. Not much in the way of new information or to talk about. There are even fewer things of interest for general users.

Projects

Brooke Linden spoke about Viewer Managed Marketplace project and their progress. She says they are still incorporating user feedback. A new viewer is coming with the feedback implemented, probably in week 6… or 7. There will probably be another round of user feedback before the project goes to beta. The timing is definitely that beta will only start sometime after the Valentine’s holiday. How much after is undecided and depends on user feedback.

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Lindens

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Monty Linden has been the one updating the HTTP library that the viewer and servers use to communicate. This has been a long term project that has been completed for a few weeks.

Now Monty Linden is working on SL2 and consulting with the SL1 peeps. For now we will miss his work on Second Life. But, he is likely to make SL2 a better product for his work.