Second Life and Virtual Worlds
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.
This week there is no Project Bento Meeting.
Next meeting is April 14.
I see a new site offering inexpensive materials for use in Blender. Of course there is the question of whether those materials can be used in Second Life. It looks like they can and cannot… I’ll explain.
A Blender Material is very different than the materials we use in Second Life™. In SL we use different textures for the diffuse, specular, and normal layers along with a few settings. In Blender a material is a collection of textures and settings that work ONLY inside Blender. There are way more settings in Blender than in SL. The two material formats are incompatible. So, the material as sold is unusable in SL.
Strawberry Singh is a Second Life™ blogger, fashionista, maker of tutorials, and fun personality. This week she has a meme about dancing in SL. See: Dancing in Second Life 2016 Challenge!
Strawberry posted this and other videos on YouTube. She also uploaded her 2014 dancing challenge. That popped up on my phone… The 2016 version is much sexier…
I came across some interesting stats on Black Desert Online (BDO). These apparently come from a press release from Daum EU, the makers of BDO. I got them from Massively Overpowered.
In March Second Life’s peak concurrent user count was 59,000+ (my data). We have no idea how many people log into SL in a 24 hour period.