Second Life and Virtual Worlds
About three years ago we started to hear of a company that said they could do amazing things with 3D imaging and rendering, unlimited detail with high frame rates. Well, we have yet to see anything but videos. And now we have another video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AvCxa9Y9NU
May be we will see something other than a video in 2015.
I also wonder if High Fidelity’s use of voxels is along the same line and if some of this tech might make it into SL2.
Lots of news is coming out of this event. None that I’ve seen is about Second Life 2.0. But, I wonder how much tech used by these other games is making its way into SL2.
For more info see: ‘Bloodborne’ Tokyo Game Show Trailer Shows Multiplayer In Action.
For some time residents of Second Life™ have suffered from TV’s and related systems failing. A set of problems generally tracked back to WebKit. But, now Marine Kelley has made and released a new HD System for Second Life.
See the details here: New product : HD Video System. L$400 See it in world.
Ciaran Laval has an article up about last Friday’s Drax Files Radio Hour: Episode 37. I wanted to hear the information about psychological counseling in Second Life. I found it an interesting interview. The index to the show follows:
02:30 – Intro content listing and housekeeping announcements end and discussion of Joe Miller, former Linden, starts.
Jeska Linden relates her memories of Joe and his work with Linden Lab. Joe was instrumental in adding voice. She talks about voice like some now talk about Oculus Rift. She touches on some Second Life history as she talks about Joe.
11:00 – Discussion on Facebook Real Names starts.
Drax and Jo talk about the problem and the recent efforts by Drag Queens to get permission to use stage names. Jo points out that the media is covering this because of the sexual aspect of the story. Drax points out the problem of using real names in oppressive countries with government control of the media and speech. He and Jo get into the social problem of stalking too.
The interesting thing is Drax suggests the idea of changing things by having government force a private company to do what people want in the name of discrimination. Well, Drax is socialist, so the answer I usually hear from him is to MAKE people do things via government control, no surprise. But, history shows how poorly government does anything… actually everything.
22:00 – Discussion on New VR Gear starts.
Drax has links to the various different VR gadgets on his site. There is some interesting gear.
27:00 Mention of High Fidelity and a coming Drax avatar.
27:40 Discussion with Dr. Tammy Fletcher starts (RL doctor).
Dr. Fletcher discusses how she provided counseling in Second Life. (30:00) She discusses what she thinks of those people that are not licensed doctors offering medical/psychological advice in world. She thinks it borders on illegal.
I am pretty sure that anyone that offers professional services or purports to be a heath professional is committing a crime. As far as I know all the laws regarding a person putting their self forward as a heath professional do NOT make an exception for doing so in virtual worlds. But, this will have to go to court and be decided before it becomes generally accepted as a crime.
Her experiences and perception of people and behavior in Second Life is very interesting. I suspect some will find her stories strange. If one has not studied psychology to some measure, deep points she makes may seem shallower than they are.
49:00 ± – Discussion is about escapism and whether SL is only escapism.
53:00 – Discussion turns to SL2 and what would she change. Basically the Tier is too high. I had hoped for more. Fortunately Drax pursues the question.
56:00 – Drax and Jo wrap up the section on psychology in SL.
57:00 – Events upcoming. SL Innsmouth for sell or possibly closing.
If you deal with transcripts of meetings, in our case in Second Life™ transcripts, they are usually chat logs. They are not that easy to read. So, some people have scripted tools to colorize the transcripts.
Gwyneth Llewelyn has an article up where she writes about her transcript colorizing tool: Revisiting the Colourising Script. She explains some of the problems she has run into over the years.
I see the Ebbe Altberg, Linden Lab’s CEO, will speak at TecgFlags’ Expand event in November. See TechFlags’ post listing speakers for the event. Since Altberg broke the news about the Lab building a new world, we haven’t heard much from him. This may be an opportunity to hear something more about SL2. Or all … Read more
Drax has a new video out. This shows how Second Life and Oculus Rift are being used to support amputees. [youtube igl4X8vI0js]