Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Stephanie Condon wrote Second Life™ Lessons: What Linden Lab is doing differently with its new VR platform for ZDNet’s Between the Lines, a sort of technology meets society section of the site.
Stephanie points out that Second Life (SL) was thought to be the tech revolution to take over the web, way back in 2006-2007 when an Internet in 3D was imagined. But… it didn’t happen. SL has remained profitable. It just didn’t catch on as people expected.
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.
We aren’t hearing much about Sansar these days. Inara did come across this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCkcbRckqY4
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.
Some third party viewers have new releases out. I’ve been meaning to mention that. I’m a little slow getting to it.
Alchemy 4.0.0-37571 shows as being released 6/26. Alchemy now uses automatic updating. It also adds a built-in Animation Override and ‘enhanced’ environment tools…
New Work Notes has posted a rare tutorial: Metaverse ProTips: Building With Second Life Specular Maps. Well… I think rare for NWN.
This is a good tutorial on how specular maps are used in SL.