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Second Life Third Party Viewer Meeting 4/8

2016/04/11 by Nalates Urriah

The HTTP/Co-routines RC viewer promoted to the main viewer 4.0.3-312816…

The RC HTTP viewer has a bunch of voice fixes too. The Vivox people say considering how their software interacts with SL voice processes, the new Vivox code should just be a drop in update for older viewers.

The successful warrior is the average man, but with great focus.

There are a number of robustness fixes in voice. But, this update won’t fix the big drop outs we are seeing. Those are from DoS attacks on the Vivox servers.

Vivox and the Lab are working on a feature to restore service when voice drops… Those will be in the next round of improvements. Other coming updates provide better voice privacy and better security.

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Why There Will Be No Jelly Babies in Second Life

2016/04/10 by Nalates Urriah

For some time I’ve been writing about Jelly Babies or by a more geeky name, muted avatars. They are a major part of the RC Quick Graphics viewer. The muted avatars are still going to be part of the viewer, we just won’t be calling them Jelly Babies.

Render Auto Muting

Jelly Babies is a trademarked name. So, the Lab won’t use it officially. Nor is it to appear in the SL Wiki or Knowledge Base. So, if we continue to call Jelly Babies Jelly Babies the new SL users won’t be able to find them in any of the SL reference material and documentation. Google won’t lead them to the right place and that is a real problem. If you can’t find it in Google, it doesn’t exist…

Blender Tutorial: Recovery

2016/04/08 by Nalates Urriah

Blender has some safety nets. If you have ever lost work from a crash, forgetting to save, or saving over a file you wanted to keep… then this video is for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ot0j8W2XE

Turning 8

2016/04/08 by Nalates Urriah

Last month was my rez-day, March. I joined in 2008 some time after Myst Online: Uru Live closed for the second time. Several of my friends from Uru were in Second Life, so I tried it. I liked it. I stayed.

Nalates Urriah - 2008-2016 — Nalates Urriah – 2008-2016 – Large version

I play other games from time to time. Currently Black Desert Online (BDO).

CtrlAltStudio Updates VR Viewer News for Second Life

2016/04/08 by Nalates Urriah

I didn’t notice this until today. David Rowe has explained that his Rift supporting viewer is not going to update until he gets his updated Rift headset. Reference. He is also looking to hear something from the Lab on their Oculus Rift viewer. He tells us his code is more a quick and dirty to … Read more

Firestorm Viewer News Week 14

2016/04/07 by Nalates Urriah

There are several bits of news out from the Firestorm Development team.

RLV – Jessica Lyon gives us some history on the development of the RLV code. (See: RLVa) Marine Kelly is the author and developer of RLV and RLVa code for all third party viewers. Plus having a RL job she is having health issues making it difficult to sit and develop RLV for new viewer versions.