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Second Life Bits 2015-08 #2

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Server Scripting UG 2015-02 - Script Kiddie?
Server Scripting UG 2015-02 – Script Kiddie?

Sony Sells Online Entertainment

This is about the part of Sony that develops games like; Everquest, PlanetSide, DC Universe Online and the recently released H1Z1. This part of the company is being named Daybreak Game Company by the new owners: Columbus Nova, an investment firm. (reference)

Is Columbus Nova speculating on Virtual Reality or games in general?

Facebook & Oculus

Venture Beat has an article on Facebook developing apps for the Oculus. Well, gee, ain’t that a surprise… NOT!

Chris Cox, Facebook’s Chief Product Officer, explains their idea this way, “When you’re in Facebook, you’re just sending around these bits of experience — a photo, a video, a thought.” With Oculus they hope to create a fuller experience.

Some of these apps are so simple to build anyone can do it, or so says Chris.

See: Facebook says it’s developing its own apps for Oculus. 

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Second Life Bits 2015-08

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PAINT SL PURPLE

The fund raiser runs from February 21 to March 7. This is a Relay for Life fund raiser.

To raise awareness of the fund raising effort the organizers what people to paint Second Life purple. Color your avatar, shops, homes, whatever purple.

Paint SL Purple
Paint SL Purple

You get a free make it purple kit here: SURL.

A kickoff party is planned for Saturday 2/21 at 4PM on the American Cancer Society Island. It is expected to last until 7PM to 9PM when Special Guests Satin & Erin along with DJ Dianne Wycliffe will be heading up the party. 

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New RC Login Viewer

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Login Viewer version 3.7.25.298971 – Some time ago we got the multi-login buttons viewer. This version is a reversion to a single login button. No one has offered any explanation. I assume the Lab is watching stats and making decisions. I don’t see a related JIRA item.

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I sort of like the multiple login buttons.

Project Managed Marketplace Viewer version 3.7.25.298865 – This Project Viewer was updated on the 13th. The release notes list 22 fixes for this version.

There are 3 RC Viewers and 5 Project Viewers. Click the download link above to see them.

 

Firestorm’s Tuesday Tip 2015-08

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This week is the power users tool: Contact Sets. They have a 6 minute video.

This is a must know tool for those team combat games. It allows you create groups of people and to set those people to show as a specific color on the mini-map.

If you work with lots of people in any way, this is a tool that will make life easier.

The tip from 2 weeks ago, Auto Replace, has been watched about 9,000 times. Last week’s tip, People Panel, is showing about 3,000 views. This is not a lot of people considering the number of people using Firestorm.

If you point people to SL tutorials, please add this YouTube channel to your list of place to refer people to.

Second Life Continuing … for real…

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Inara posted a transcript and audio recording of Oz Linden talking about Second Life’s future. I referred to the same comments and loosely paraphrased them in Sunday’s post. For a more exact sense of what was said listen to the audio recording. “We are building a new product *in addition* to Second Life”

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Bookmark that article. You will eventually find a low information resident babbling like Chicken Little. It will be a handy link to give them.

We know from talking with Simon and Oz Linden that there is a Next New Thing and they have said it is a large project. Simon said ‘huge’. They aren’t saying anything else.

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Firestorm Viewer 4.6.1 to be Blocked

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Firestorm Logo
Firestorm Logo

The Firestorm Team announced last Friday (2/13) that they will be blocking their viewer version 4.6.1. Versions 4.6.5, 4.6.7 and 4.6.9 will be the only versions that can log into Second Life. They strongly advise that you upgrade to and use version 4.6.9.

Official Firestorm Announcement is here.

An exception is being made for version 4.4.2 on the Mac side. The problems from Apple’s change to Cocoa have been the reason for this version being allowed to stay on the grid. The Linden position is the problems are from Apple’s upgrades and they are fixed in new Apple Operating System (OS) versions. I understand the updates are free, so there is little reason not to upgrade. But, old hardware can be a problem. But, some decent machines are going for US$200 on eBay.

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