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Second Life: Week of Restarts

2014/11/15 by Nalates Urriah

Maddy Gynoid pointed me to a notice the Lab has posted in Grid Status saying starting the Week of Nov 17th (Monday) they will be doing grid maintenance with one or more restarts per region per day. Grid Status – Scheduled Maintenance [Posted 10:00 AM PST, 14 November 2014] Beginning Monday, November 17, we will be … Read more

Second Life News 2014-46 #2

2014/11/152014/11/14 by Nalates Urriah

There was not much new news revealed in the Beta Server User Group meeting this week. We seem to be getting sparse news, not that Lindens aren’t talking. There is just not much to talk about.

CDN

The rollouts to the RC Channels were tweaks to the Content Delivery Network (CDN). When Whirly Fizzle asked, “Are those CDN changes something users will notice?” Maetro Linden described them as: “No, it’s just a way to reconfigure the CDN URL if we need to. Eventually there’s a plan to make that point at a more ‘dynamic’ hostname, which is still being set up. However, there is some viewer work meant to address some of those CDN issues, to address BUG-7698 and similar ones.”

Second Life & Capital Exchange Update

2014/11/13 by Nalates Urriah

Capital Exchange has posted that Linden lab has contacted them. So, attorneys from both sides are now discussing whether or not Capital Exchange is a game of skill or chance. Expect these discussions to take weeks. During that time game will remain frozen. See: Linden Lab Counsel Finally Contacts CapEx Counsel

Second Life News 2014-46

2014/11/122014/11/12 by Nalates Urriah

Group Chat

I think most people have noticed it is better. So far, I have been able to comment in groups such as Firestorm Support without a problem, a group I seldom could connect to. I could listen, but not post comments, about half or more of the time.

Blood Letters - Mad Pea 2014 — Blood Letters – Mad Pea 2014

Posting to any large group was a problem. That has now mostly been resolved.

We are losing the open post of any chat that starts after I login. In some cases it is not noticeable. In others it is apparent. The Lindens are aware of it.

Today grid status reported the internal utilities servers would be getting updates. In the Server Scripting meeting we learned that additional changes to group chat were being rolled out. So, this is likely that change going into place. The Lindens say not to expect visible improvements. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any, just that they are not likely to be as noticeable as previous changes.

Blood Letters My Day 2 – Second Life

2014/11/12 by Nalates Urriah

I am learning there are a lot of problems with the new SL Viewer as I go through playing Blood Letters. That there is no roll of the main channel today means a lot of regions I was hoping would be restarted are not being restarted. I need to read my own posts, I knew that.

From Day 1 – Letter 10 and the Cheeky Pea: I hope the region has been restarted, but I can’t tell. I have a video of my landing in Cheeky Pea. Remember. I was there barely 12 hours ago. The mesh and textures should be in CDN and my cache. But, the region is still slow rendering.

What is not obvious in the video is the 1+ minute delay in the upper left video where I waited for things to render before starting the video. I had to decide to record the video, load FRAPS, and get it going. I stood there for a bit to let things render/rez. They didn’t.

I also tried to show the problem with finding the clue (#10), in this case a business card. I would generally not show this as I consider it a spoiler. But, I’ve watched others trying to find it and I had a heck of a time, all because the LOD in Cheeky Pea is so bad. The card should have been a prim so it would render without LOD or download issues. But, the LoD could have been designed so this would not be a problem.

Second Life Bits 2014-46

2014/11/12 by Nalates Urriah

Radegast Viewer

Ciaran and Inara quote from a post on the Radegast Viewer Blog. Radegast is a light weight viewer handy for the visually impaired. The developer is Latif Khalifa. For health reasons he is no longer able to develop the viewer. It is open source, so someone may take it over.

Sad… I wish the best for Latif.

Ebbe Altberg at Engadget

As noted in an earlier post Ebbe was on a panel in New York at Engadget’s get together discussing virtual worlds in apps beyond gaming. There is little in the discussions about SL2 other than closed beta will likely start mid 2015. Both Ciaran and Inara have more to say about what was discussed. I still see most of the VR talk as hype about what great things they are GOING to do. I am waiting for it to solidify into something we can touch and do. But, knowing how people see VR developing is good for perspective and has some predictive value.

For a summary see: Virtual reality has a future beyond video games, and it’s already started.