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Alchemy Viewer 3.8.5

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This week an Alchemy Viewer 3.8.5 update was released. The developers are busy will real life money making. So, updates are coming slowly. It has been almost 3 months since the last update. This update brings Alchemy to a level with the Linden 3.8.5 version.  The current Linden version is 3.8.6.

Alchemy 3.8.5 - Oct 2015
Alchemy 3.8.5 – Oct 2015

This means Alchemy has the 90+ fixes the Lab added with the promotion of the Maintenance RC Viewer. Plus Alchemy fixes. But, it will still lack the new Notifications Handling released in Linden version 3.8.6.

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Second Life News Week 44

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Viewers

The main default viewer updated from the Notifications RC Viewer 3.8.6-305981. So, you’ll be seeing notices popping up differently.

The only RC viewers are:

  • RC Second Life HTTP update Viewer version 3.8.6.306549
  • Second Life Quick Graphics Viewer version 3.8.6.305942
Why So Serious ?!!!
Why So Serious ?!!!

The Project Viewers:

  • Project Oculus Rift Viewer version 3.7.18.295296
  • Second Life Project Valhalla Viewer version 4.0.0.305703

Nothing much has changed in these. There will be updates to all of these so they will all soon have the Notifications changes plus various fixes.

I don’t expect the Oculus version to update… 

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Second Life’s Not So New News

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Yesterday Linden Lab posted  in their blog about new improvements coming to Second Life. If you follow my blog, Ciarans’s or Inara’s, you already know most of what they wrote about. Project Valhalla is the project viewer where they are changing from Webkit to Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). I’ve been writing about this change since … Read more

Second Life Viewers Week 43

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~Nice to meet you~
~Nice to meet you~

This week there are two updates from the Lab:

RC Second Life Notifications Viewer version 3.8.6.305981 – This is the one with changes in how notices are handled. Earlier I was wondering if the server change running on the RC Channels was related. No hard information, just speculation that there is probably a connection. 

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CtrlAltStudio Oculus Update

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CtrlAltStudio has released a new version of their Oculus Rift Viewer: SDK 0.6: 1.2.5.43397. The announcement is here: CtrlAltStudio Viewer Updated to Oculus SDK 0.6: 1.2.5.43397. You’ll find the viewer works in Direct and Extended Rift modes. There are lots more little details discussed in the announcement. I find this interesting, quoting David Rowe: I … Read more

Strawberry Streams

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Strawberry Singh is one of the better Second Life™ photographers. She recently tried streaming a photo tips tutorial. It worked pretty well. You can see the result: I clipped the first couple of minutes where she was figuring out the streaming software. This is a good example of using the Firestorm Viewer to adjust your … Read more