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AvaStar Update: 2.0 Alpha-4 & Project Bento

2016/07/07 by Nalates Urriah

Gaia Clary announced another update of AvaStar 2 is out. This is not the production version. This is the Alpha version with Bento support. In the announcement Gaia explains the current problem people are debating. The video by Medhue shows and explains what is being talked about.

Gaia says this alpha version of AvaStar complies with the current proposed Bento model that includes rotation and translation. But, there are concerns about the Bento plan to allow rotation and translation. See the release announcement for a longer story or below the fold for the shorter version. This is an extensive document. If you are animating in SL, read the thing to understand what is coming.

Second Life News 2016 w27

2016/07/05 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

Surprise. There is roll of a new package to the main channel. I did not expect that the day after a Monday holiday.

This is the package that has been running on the RC channels. It contains security fixes… or a fix… depending on how and what one reads. Also, the Bento animation file size for animation uploads is increased. And there is some fix to email address problems from within scripts.

There is no roll to the RC channels this week. So, the entire main grid will be running the same server software.

Second Life: Oculus Follow Up

2016/07/04 by Nalates Urriah

Jo Yardley has obviously been watching the news about Oculus use in Second Life. It isn’t good. See: Second Life Oculus ready viewer released, fails to impress.

Seems performance with Oculus has degraded between the time the first Oculus viewer was released and this one. That is disappointing.

Jo provides links to SL Forum discussion on Oculus.

Second Life: Oculus Rift Viewer Updated

2016/07/02 by Nalates Urriah

I mentioned in the Third Party Dev article earlier today that the Oculus Rift Project Viewer updated. It jumped from version Second Life Project Oculus Rift Viewer version 3.7.18.295296 (like 2 years old) to version 4.1.0.317313 (7/1/2016).

The video is dated: Mar 25, 2016. – Remember. Unless you run the video through a VR headset, it is totally bogus when it comes what the experience is like…

Second Life Third Party Dev news

2016/07/02 by Nalates Urriah

In week 26 the Third Party Developers’ meeting ran 47 minutes. As it is a holiday weekend in the USA many of the regular attenders were not there. But, we did get some good information and lots of dates, which is unusual. So, this gives us a good guide for what is coming and when.