Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
Linden Lab has announced that migration from the existing Second Life Marketplace to the new Viewer Managed Marketplace (VMM) will start July 23, 2015. See: Viewer-Man
Migrations will start at 9PM PT and run to 9AM the following day. I expect this to take days, but may be not. You will get an email when they start and finish. Merchants with a large number (5,000+) of products will get advance warning of the pending migration.
Oh noooo… everyone is writing about Dr. Phil doing a show on computer gaming. The show aired on CBS this Tuesday (7/14 – 3PM PT – I was working). For Second Life residents the big deal was to be some coverage of Second Life and an interview with Ebbe Altberg, the Linden Lab CEO. Hurry … Read more
I am finding it harder and harder to find interesting news happening in Second Life™. I have a collection of blogs I like. I find that their content is becoming more diverse. Fashion and porn blogs are still focused. Most of the others seem to be losing focus. I feel like the focus I had on developments in SL is harder to maintain.
I may write less and build more… which will mean more tutorials. Those are still consistently the most viewed articles on this blog.
No roll to the main channel this week. The RC channels all get the same package, a maintenance fix with internal simulator fixes…
NiranV has added a modified version of the Linden’s new Notifications Panel. If you read anything about the Third Party Dev’s (TPD) meeting this weekend you know the Lindens have a project viewer out with a Notifications feature change. Normally TPD’s leave project viewer features out of their viewers until the Lab stops changing them, … Read more
The trailer is an 8 minute video… a bit long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMPLRpgK8k You probably know Hair Faire is an event to benefit Wigs for Kids. You can visit in-world here (SLURL). The fair ends July 26th. As usual the regions are full to capacity, about 40 people. Peak use in SL is about 2 to 3 … Read more
Gaia Clary has a new version of AvaStar out. How binding works has changed. Seems lots of people didn’t get that an item had to be rotated and scaled before attempting to bind the item to the armature. Release Notes So, Gaia has adapted AvaStar to provide more help. There are 5 new videos out. AvaStar … Read more