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Second Life Layoffs Update

2010/06/13 by Nalates Urriah

OpenSim Regions – from Hypergrid Business

Updated 2010-06-14 – 2 Added

Tateru Nino at Massively wrote an article on why she thinks the layoffs are an indication of a cash crunch at Linden Lab (LL). See: The Virtual Whirl: The bottom line

The Second Life cash supply is very much like the real world cash supplies of nations. They all print money as they think it is needed… or to serve their various agendas. But cash supplies are not absolute control. One can print lots of money, but if no one buys/takes it then nothing happens. Citizens have a say… or at least an effect on cash supply.

Things Around Second Life and OSGrid

2010/05/11 by Nalates Urriah

Second Life Utopia — Utopia Machinima Area

Both Second Life (SL) and OpenSim (OS) are advancing; changes, updates, events, people. Several are small things that I doubt deserve their own post but are worth noting. Also, I’m part of a Myst-Uru fan community. So, some things come from far outside the normal SL/OS circles.

Second Life Meshes Update

2011/03/102010/05/04 by Nalates Urriah

In August of last year I wrote about meshes coming to Second Life. We have a type of mesh in SL now, they are called Sculpties. But sculpties have lots of limitations. Placing textures on them and controlling LoD (Level of Detail) is complex and they tend not to show their real shape until we get close. They are also slow to render, starting out as a sphere.

The meshes we are about to get are what I’ll call free form meshes. T. Linden is telling us today that we will get them some time in Q2. Yay! See Second Life Blog: Q2 Coming Soon: What’s Ahead For Second Life

Law Suite May Touch All in Second Life

2012/05/232010/04/21 by Nalates Urriah

Linden Lab gets sued often enough. A recent one is from the maker of the Rez Tool for use with the Emerald viewer. See Weird in Emerald Viewer Fast Rez Tool. But this new suit could touch us all. It could go class action. A serious attorney that has made his case before is in action. Over … Read more

New Viewers – New Second Life

2010/03/31 by Nalates Urriah

This morning Linden Lab released Viewer 2.0 and opened the new resident Help Island. New World Notes gives you a glimpse of the new user experience. We old residents can’t visit there. It is supposed to be better and should help retain more new users. We’ll see. The new Second Life viewer is very much … Read more

Why Games Succeed – THERE.com

2010/03/30 by Nalates Urriah

A researcher working in the game THERE has written a thoughtful article about her findings. For those of us interested in what makes a game tick and succeed or fail it is a great read. In-Depth: Requiem For A World For those of from the Myst-Uru community it has special interest as Celia studied the … Read more