Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
(Link) Emanuel Maiberg, author, thinks Second Life is a shabby World of Warcraft… Really!?!
I have to wonder what part of SL Emanuel has been looking at…
The article points out several good reasons for SL having survived. Fair enough overall.
Quote: “Indeed, the most surprising thing about Second Life is not that it’s still a thing, but that 13 years after its inception, it is still way ahead of its time.”
The main channel is getting a new package. This is the one running on the RC channels last week (17), which consists of a crash fix and improvements. The RC channels will continue to run the same package. So, they won’t be getting a restart.
The main viewer remains 4.0.3-312816. No update for a couple of weeks.
RC Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 4.0.4.314579 – This version did update this past week from 4.0.4.314012.
RC Second Life Quick Graphics Viewer version 4.0.4.314426 – This version has NOT updated since last week.
Second Life Project Bento Viewer version 5.0.0.313876 – This version has NOT updated since last week.
Second Life Project Oculus Rift Viewer version 3.7.18.295296 – This version has NOT updated since forever.
The Third Party Dev’s meeting should be this week. But, the agenda page is still only showing 4/22 as the next meeting.
Last week’s report: Second Life News 2016 Week 17. More details on the viewer changes are explained there. Nothing new to report today.
Hamlet at New World Notes ran an article on the protest around a Bernie supporter’s region. See: Bernie Sanders’ Second Life Headquarters Besieged by Trump-Supporting Swastikas, Demons and 120 Ft. Fireworks-Spewing Donald Trump Statue.
I guess we know who Hamlet DOES NOT support. His choice and pretty much understandable considering the current media coverage. However, I find Hamlet’s coverage of the protest rather shallow. It is what I would expect from a Bernie supporter or an anti-Trump person, not that Hamlet is either. But, there is more to this story than Hamlet is telling and I expect omissions from someone with an agenda. Hamlet’s, if he has one, could just be to get clicks or it could be deeper.
Seems there are a bunch of articles referring to Second Life™ and Project Sansar this week. The Australian in their LIFE section has an article titled Welcome to the virtual reality social revolution.
Seems a fair enough view of SL and the image used is recent.
As I write this there are only a couple of comments. If all the comments were like the first, I would conclude the Australians are far more civil than Americans.
Ciaran has a review of an article about Second Life that appears in the French newspaper Le Monde: Absurd, creative and debauched: ten years later, “Second Life” is still alive.
Ciaran has written a nice review of the article. So, I’ll skip adding my thoughts as I’m way short on free time today.
No deploy to the main channel this week. The 3 RC channels are all getting the same package, which has a server crash fix and minor internal improvements.
Not much to go on…
RC Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 4.0.4.314012 – No update since the Third Party Dev’s coverage.
RC Second Life Quick Graphics Viewer version 4.0.4.314426 – This viewer has updated since last Friday. See Second Life: LOTS of News for the details on the likely changes to this version.
Second Life Project Bento Viewer version 5.0.0.313876 – No update since Friday’s coverage.
Second Life Project Oculus Rift Viewer version 3.7.18.295296 – No update, Charlie.