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AvaStar 1.1-1039 Video

2014/04/05 by Nalates Urriah

Early in Week 14 Gaia Clairy put a new video on YouTube. This is a bit of a revision to an earlier one and I think a clarification of the note card she sent to group members of Blender Avastar in-world. I reviewed that and published my understanding of her instructions in: AvaStar 1.1-1039 Released. … Read more

Drax Files Radio Hour #13

2014/08/142014/04/05 by Nalates Urriah

Another show is out and I have time to listen and write about it. Ciaran and Daniel both have written about the latest show. I’ll try to add some more information to the topics.

SL Go

This week’s show gets into SL Go and its recent price changes, US$9.95 per month for unlimited use. That is a pretty good deal. SL Go also connects to Steam. So, you can play high-end games on Steam using your tablets and other low end computers.

I think many OnLive users are very happy with the service. I am certainly impressed with it. A number of SL users have commented positively about it too.

Second Life Bug

2014/04/03 by Nalates Urriah

We get them from time to time. We have one that is annoying for those of us using the Preview Grid. BUG-5563 – My Password and Inventory don’t update on Beta Grid (aditi). The idea on the Preview Grid is that it updates your inventory to be what you have on the main grid when … Read more

Facebook, Flickr & Twitter from Second Life

2014/04/03 by Nalates Urriah

SL Share is the feature name the Lab uses for their sharing feature. You probably remember that Facebook sharing was blocked for a time. Facebook advised the Lab on what had to change for the feature to be unblocked. The Lab made those changes. Now Facebook sharing is back.

While the Lab was making changes they added the ability to share with Flickr and Twitter. Torley Linden made a video tutorial that posted with announcement about the newly enhanced SL Share.

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To use these new features you need to download and install the Project SL Share2 Viewer version 3.7.5.288424.

The DraxFiles – World Makers Episode 18: Paradise Lost

2014/04/03 by Nalates Urriah

Drax has a talent for finding interesting people working & playing in Second Life™.

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Please watch on YouTube and vote for the video.

A Little Less Scary, for Second Life

2014/04/02 by Nalates Urriah

Yesterday I posted a link to Gwyneth Llewelyn’s April Fool’s Joke. Today Gwyneth posts that she was in fact joking. See: Yes, yes, it was a prank! She includes more material for our nightmares. But, this time she is putting things in some perspective. I think this article reveals some of the real possibilities ahead and good reasons for them.

Image by: Lelani-Carve, Flickr — Image by: Lelani-Carver, Flickr

For one thing, she points out that Kitely might be a better choice for acquisition. And she points out that Facebook might be better off using OpenSim, as Kitely does, and adding in Intel’s DSG framework, which allows a region to handle thousands of concurrent users. The mix of large crowd handling and run-on-demand-scaling is certainly something I imagine the Facebook managers would like.