Today word came that the central region of NoR named Remembrance came back on line. It isn’t the same build. But, it has the same name.
More to come… but not tonight.
AvaStar News Week 39
Gaia Clary is working to release an improved AvaStar 1.6 in October of this year. (Reference) An ‘Alpha’ version has been available since June. (Ref) But, it is not recommended for production or new users. The change is Gaia trying to get a better work flow for fitted mesh creation.
People are becoming more interested in working with the various mesh bodies. I’m doubting Gaia can do much that is specific to any private brand of mesh body or would want to. I don’t see a necessity to try. We are building better polygon layouts than the classic avatar’s. So, our weighting will be better and likely unique. Plus we will have polygon layouts that vary from the various mesh bodies as the bodies use different layouts. But, if we have good layout and weights, our stuff is going to work well with most bodies mesh or classic.
Flickr Problems
I thought it may just be me, but Flickr is NOT working well this morning. It is behaving like I imagine it would if it were inside SL…
Ping to LA is 13ms, download 59mbps, and up 6.7mbps. The Flickr servers are in Lockport, NY, USA. According to Flickr they use Content Delivery Networks (CDN) (Reference), according to a book titled Photography Applications for Cloud Computing. So, testing to New York: 108ms, 29,5mbps down, 6.5mbps up. So, not a network issue.
You can report problems with web sites and see when they are having problems. For Flickr use: Flickr Down? According to them problems started about 10:20 AM EDT 9/24.
Second Life News Bits Week 39
VR Headset Sales
Hypergrid Business has an article out on VR Headset sales. 300,000 headsets per month. That is 4+ million per year. See: Alibaba, Taobao selling 300,000 VR headsets a month for more details and which units are selling the most.
Bright Canopy Returns
Bright Canopy is the company replacing SL Go. They bring Second Life to tablets and other low GPU power devices. See: Bright Canopy. Run Second Life in your web browser.
nPose V2 RC1 Available
According to a chat group announcement, the nPose-V2 RC1 and demos are available at nPose HQ (map URL).
Saturday,19 Sep 2015 18:54:25 GMT
It is a nice sunny day so everything is outside.
You gotta try out that piano, remember the sound clips are only 10 seconds long and doesn’t miss a beat.
All plugins have been tested and are up to their jobs. Props and TempAttach plugins have changed.
Documentation: https://github.com/HowardBaxton/nPose-V2/wiki
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NoR Update
Information continues to trikle out of the Land of NoR community. Yesterday:
The Purchase ticket submitted
Tuesday,22 Sep 2015 16:30:34 GMT
The ticket to purchase Remembrance has been submitted and the others who were going to take over a sim have been informed in IM.
Lets hope this goes without much issues and Ill be building Remembrance somewhere next week.
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