Second Life in the News Week 42

Second Life is part of a presentation at the Burlington Performing Arts CentreI (Burlington ON, L7S 1T7). The performance calendar describes it this way:

Tottering Biped @ Burlington Performing Arts Centre - Oct 2015
Tottering Biped @ Burlington Performing Arts Centre – Oct 2015

The online virtual world of ‘Second Life’ stretches thousands of kilometers and millions of visitors. While searching for her lost sister, Jessica struggles to find out what – and who – are real. Life and its double are at stake in this multi-media exploration of loss in the digital age. The Second Life was devised by the company through workshops with light, movement, and text over a four-year period. The Second Life explores the increasingly fluid relationship between the real, the digital and the spiritual.

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CtrlAltStudio Oculus Update

CtrlAltStudio has released a new version of their Oculus Rift Viewer: SDK 0.6: 1.2.5.43397. The announcement is here: CtrlAltStudio Viewer Updated to Oculus SDK 0.6: 1.2.5.43397. You’ll find the viewer works in Direct and Extended Rift modes. There are lots more little details discussed in the announcement. I find this interesting, quoting David Rowe: I … Read more

Strawberry Streams

Strawberry Singh is one of the better Second Life™ photographers. She recently tried streaming a photo tips tutorial. It worked pretty well. You can see the result: I clipped the first couple of minutes where she was figuring out the streaming software. This is a good example of using the Firestorm Viewer to adjust your … Read more