Second Life and Virtual Worlds
This is a test post. My Plurk poster failed. I replaced it with a different poster. This post is just a test.
Last month was my rez-day, March. I joined in 2008 some time after Myst Online: Uru Live closed for the second time. Several of my friends from Uru were in Second Life, so I tried it. I liked it. I stayed.
I play other games from time to time. Currently Black Desert Online (BDO).
I didn’t notice this until today. David Rowe has explained that his Rift supporting viewer is not going to update until he gets his updated Rift headset. Reference. He is also looking to hear something from the Lab on their Oculus Rift viewer. He tells us his code is more a quick and dirty to … Read more
I suspect we have all heard about simulator sickness, akin to motion sickness, caused by latency/lag in providing images to VR headsets. Now NVIDIA is showing an experimental zero latency display. The site Road to VR has the story in an article: NVIDIA Demonstrates Experimental “Zero Latency” Display Running at 1,700Hz.
NVIDIA debuted their experimental display at GTC 2016. The current 90hz displays render an image every 11ms. NVIDIA gets an image on screen in 0.58ms. Wow.
There are several bits of news out from the Firestorm Development team.
RLV – Jessica Lyon gives us some history on the development of the RLV code. (See: RLVa) Marine Kelly is the author and developer of RLV and RLVa code for all third party viewers. Plus having a RL job she is having health issues making it difficult to sit and develop RLV for new viewer versions.
Remember Obama Girl? In 2008 this way cute Obama Girl was a thing. I’m misusing her and the videos she made and making some misstatements and misrepresentations to illustrate what the FEC – Federal Elections Commission – is doing and what it means to those of us in the United States. See if you can identify them before I reveal them later in this post.
That video is from mid 2007. Obama Girl began appearing in 2007 and MSNBC named her one of the most influential women of 2007. Impressive. The video has 26+ million views.
Obama Girl is Amber Lee Ettinger iRL. Her videos are said to have helped elect President Obama.