Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Well, most of this is from week 18 but…
Lindal Kidd has posted about the grid being down Friday night (5/8). I’m usually out shooting pool and drinking. So, I wouldn’t notice the grid being down on a Friday night. See: Grid Down! Residents Scratch Heads.
As to the cause… we don’t know. The grid status message appears to have been a standard canned message.
This is an audio of Ebbe’s speech, with some still pictures, on VR at the conference and 11 minutes in some video. The TL:DR is VR is going to be BIG. By 2025 it should be generating US$80 billion. 15 minutes. This is a good speech for those that have no idea what VR is … Read more
Yesterday was hectic day for the management of this blog. Between noon and about 2 PM PT the hosting server was overloaded with requests. Memory and I/O maxed out preventing viewing or management of the blog. So, new tools have been added and more IP addresses have been blocked. Unfortunately Go Daddy’s metrics tools do not … Read more
Viewers Oz Linden was crashing so the meeting got a late start. Then only ran 20 minutes. Not anything new to talk about. But, there is an alarming change from the Beta Server group I’ve included as the last item in this article. The RC Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 4.0.4.314579 has been promoted to … Read more
(Link) Emanuel Maiberg, author, thinks Second Life is a shabby World of Warcraft… Really!?!
I have to wonder what part of SL Emanuel has been looking at…
The article points out several good reasons for SL having survived. Fair enough overall.
Quote: “Indeed, the most surprising thing about Second Life is not that it’s still a thing, but that 13 years after its inception, it is still way ahead of its time.”
The Drax Files Radio Hour w/Jo Yardley is covering SVVR 2016 (Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference and Expo). Their first part of the coverage is out: show #114. (28 minutes audio) Check out the pictures there. The new stuff is: Currently still 100% Maya for creation By opening they will support Blender and other modeling … Read more