Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
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.
When we upload mesh items, clothes or other things, one of the questions is how many polygons can I use? An alternative of that one, how many should I use, is also common.
For the second there is no ‘numeric’ answer for the ‘should’ version. The common answer is: as few as will do the job. But, how many can we use? Is there a limit?
Alchemy has new Beta release out as of Saturday 16, version 4.0.0 Beta 2.
In this release Alchemy gets a built into the viewer AO. There are Windlight changes. There is also a Linux version.
We are told this is a ‘beta’ release to get Alchemy in shape for the next set of Linden updates… The ‘Linden’ releases are coming…(?) so I have little idea what is or isn’t in this release.
From the Third Party Dev Meeting 2016-16… Oz Linden starts off saying there isn’t a lot of new stuff. But, news-wise there was quite a bit and I found most of it interesting.
Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 4.0.4.314012 – Oz describes this version as having lots of annoyances fixed. It hasn’t changed since my previous Tuesday update.