Second Life: What is the BEST use of Outfits?

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I use outfits… reading in the forum I find there is a mix of people using and not using and sort of using outfits. With the Visual Outfit Browser feature being added to the viewer, I wonder if it will change how people will use outfits? I’ll get into LAG and USE.

inventory
inventory

After a bit over 8 years playing the Second Life™ inventory game (See: Is Second Life a Game?), I’ve tried a bunch of different inventory tactics. I am finding how I use inventory and outfits evolves with time. Am I winning? Maybe. I see that ‘evolving’ seems to be true for others too. So, how does one make the best use of inventory and outfits? Is there a lag factor from inventory? 

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Obduction System Requirements

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The discussion over on the Myst and Obduction forums is about whether most of the people will need a new computer or not. The minimum hardware requirements are pretty high. See: Cyan Worlds’ Obduction July Release.

Obduction - Cyan Worlds
Obduction – Cyan Worlds

There is enough of a commotion about hardware the Cyan Worlds peeps have posted: Obduction VS. Hardware.  Mike Dogherra explains his experience with the game. He doesn’t address the Oculus Rift aspect, which I think is why we see such high specs.

While I could be wrong, I think much of this is about Cyan covering their butts and controlling expectations. They do not want to get ripped on for giving people simulator sickness.

Second Life Viewer Update 2016 w23

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Last night I wrote my update for servers and viewers for week #23 and scheduled it for 6AM this morning. This morning at 7 AM I find new viewers on the RC and Project Viewers page.

Sea-sight
Sea-sight

New Project Viewers

Second Life Project VLC Media Plugin Viewer version 4.0.6.316087 – This viewer completely removes the need for QuickTime… well, maybe more accurately… removes the code that tried to run an Apple abandoned and broken QuickTime. 

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Second Life News 2016 w23

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Update: Already out of date… writing 7AM PT… check back in an hour.

Servers

Tuesday will see the rollout of the package previously running on the RC channels. The project adds mnemonic names for the new Bento attachment points to LSL scripting. Plus some minor internal changes.

L'Ange et le Corbeau...
L’Ange et le Corbeau…

Wednesday a new package will roll out to the three RC channels. All we know about this package is: minor internal changes. 

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