Second Life Servers Week 43

This week there has been no roll to the main channel. The same software will run as last week.

This week (Wednesday) there will be a roll out to the RC channels. All three channels will get the same package: Maintenance.

Portrait ♥
Portrait ♥

This package is said to have some bug fixes and to specifically fix:  BUG-8222HI, Problems to open pictures in Group notifications ! this bug looks to be related to: SVC-7129Attachments to group notices malfunction after some time. This is an old problem we have lived with for years (March 2010). 

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Second Life: Business & Drama

Second Life™ is so much like real life. All the same problems, challenges, and drama present in RL are seen in SL too. Now we have the Maitreya Monopoly… First the drama story then the tech that makes this all so silly.

One Reason
One Reason

It seems blogger Sophee Mojo is unhappy with Maitreya or more accurately Onyx LeShelle the creator of Maitreya. The unhappiness has its root in the limited selection of clothes currently available for the Maitreya Mesh body or more accurately the limited set of designers. Sophee points to the developer’s kit for Maitreya that lacks ‘weighting’ information as a deliberate move on Maitreya’s part to control the clothes market. So, the unhappiness is expressed as complaints and accusations.

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Second Life in the News Week 42

Second Life is part of a presentation at the Burlington Performing Arts CentreI (Burlington ON, L7S 1T7). The performance calendar describes it this way:

Tottering Biped @ Burlington Performing Arts Centre - Oct 2015
Tottering Biped @ Burlington Performing Arts Centre – Oct 2015

The online virtual world of ‘Second Life’ stretches thousands of kilometers and millions of visitors. While searching for her lost sister, Jessica struggles to find out what – and who – are real. Life and its double are at stake in this multi-media exploration of loss in the digital age. The Second Life was devised by the company through workshops with light, movement, and text over a four-year period. The Second Life explores the increasingly fluid relationship between the real, the digital and the spiritual.

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CtrlAltStudio Oculus Update

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

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