Second Life and Virtual Worlds
As race relations in the US devolve there are those that are trying to heal the divisions. This one of the people working to stop the division.
United we stand… pay attention to who proposes segregation, racial quotas, disregard for merit and accomplishment in favor of race and economic status.
Today, Tuesday, a new update rolled to the main grid. The reported changes are; Feature request: new llGetObjectDetails() functionality to get the parent_id of any task in the region (OBJECT_REZZER_KEY) and a Simulator crash fix.
There are two new updates rolling to the RC channels Wednesday. Blue Steel will get a package that has a fix for BUG-1313 “LSL llSetPos in root prim of attachment behaves differently at high altitudes – viewer does not show updates” and some unspecified internal fixes.
Le Tigre and Magnum will get a package that has the BUG-1313 fix and a simulator crash fix.
I think this is the first time in a while that we have seen two packages roll.
A Lab Chat meeting with Ebbe Altberg, Linden Lab CEO, was yesterdays (1/21) big event. We learned new things about Second Life™ and Project Sansar. We are starting to see reaction from a few to the new information.
I am paraphrasing what I heard on the audio and I’ve shortened it. For some questions the answers were repeating what was said earlier. So, I’ve included time marks to you can easily find the actual statements in the audio stream. I have also expanded on what Ebbe says from what I believe is implied. Take that with however much salt you feel is appropriate.
Annie Gaus, a reporter for the San Francisco Business Times has written In virtual reality, Second Life prepares for its second act. Annie interviews Ebbe Altberg. Starting with Second Life as a virtual world and moving into talk about Project Sansar.
Nothing new here to those following Sansar in the SL Blogosphere. But, it is a nice article.
With concurrent user count recently peaking at 57,000± and user group meeting attendance low I think it is fair to ask if people are losing interest in what’s happening in Second LifeTM. The answer is one of those things that is very subjective, because it is so difficult to get objective or complete information. So, most answers are opinion.
We see attendance at user group meetings at 10 to 25 people. Yet, we see 4 regions fill up for Firestorm meetings. The video above shows the casting call for Project Bento. About 10 people attended and 4 of use were bloggers or people managing the event.
First, I don’t know. Second, AFAIK no one has said anything to give us a substantial clue. But, I am curious. So, when I see Massively Overpowered writing about character creation I check it out. Following is a video showing the state of character creation in Black Desert as of September 2015.
You don’t start to see the creation tool until about TM 4:00.
I can speculate that some of the adjustment tools could be similar for Project Sansar. But, I wonder about whether we will have that much control over hair and make up. We have quite an industry making hair and make up. If all that is moved to the character editor, it will definitely change the fashion industry in Sansar.
One thing I think would be great to add to the character creation tool is the ability to play animations as they do toward the end of the video. I doubt that how animations are used in Black Desert and Sansar will be similar.
Black Desert is allowed more freedom as they only dealing with a limited set of appearance parameters in that they are dealing with humanoid forms. As Bento is showing us people are far more creative. There is a desire to have wildly bizarre characters. Have you thought what Halloween 2016 will be like after Bento is completed?