Second Life: New Features

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Today, about noon, the Lindens posted: What’s Happening Now in Second Life. The list is:

  1. Five new premium sandboxes
  2. Portal Park 2.0
  3. LLSit

A much-needed sandbox is (quoting):

The fifth new region is called: Sandbox Premium Weapons Testing which, as the name suggests, is dedicated to testing your SL munitions! In the past, weapons testing was done in general sandboxes where it was prone to overcrowding, griefing and instability. It was very difficult to get testing done. Now we’ve opened up more space for Premium members to test their combat gear in a less disruptive environment.

Portal Park II Oct 2016
Portal Park II Oct 2016

The other 4 sandboxes are 3 running RC server packages, one running the main package and they are adjacent to each other. These allow quick testing of items in all 4 versions of the server software running in the main grid.

Second Life Portal Park is an in-world Destination Guide.  This is a fun place to wonder around.

LLSit is a new scripting feature I’ve been writing about for the last couple of weeks. It rolled to the main grid last week.

 

Second Life – Sansar – VR – Hy-Fy – Liberals

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Hamlet has an article about an article written by Rowland Manthorpe… respectively named; Gods & Devils: Wired UK’s Rowland Manthorpe on What He Learned by Writing About Sansar, High Fidelity… and Palmer Luckey’s Trump Support and Second Life was just the beginning. Philip Rosedale is back and he’s delving into VR.

La vie en rose
La vie en rose

The Rowland article is worth your time to read. It is interesting in several ways. If you are a post-Rosedale (SL founder) SL’er then you’ll get some idea of Second Life’s history and what Rosedale was doing and hopping to build. 

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Second Life: Burn2 2016

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I have been learning more about making videos. There are the individual ‘things’, tasks… whatever. Then there is the problem of putting them together. First tries tend to be lame… but, this isn’t too bad… well, hopefully it isn’t painful and gives an ideas of what Burn2 is like.

There are various tasks I wanted to figure out. Audio in Premier, Adobe’s video editor, is a new area. There is an amazing range of tools for audio in Premier but, they are well hidden. Plus there are a number of image and video editing tools, less well hidden.  Lots to learn.

Second Life: Project Bento Update 2016 w42

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We got a new Bento RC viewer this week. I was using it to video this meeting. In the first part of the meeting Vir Linden updates  us on fixes to the viewer and its remaining problems.

Index

00:00 – The first 40 seconds have no sound because no one was talking. So, I sped up the video and shrunk 3+ minutes down to 40 seconds. Later in the video you’ll see silent parts of the video speed up.

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