Nalates' Things & Stuff

Second Life & Sansar in the News

2015/08/04 by Nalates Urriah

Massively Overpowered (MO) posted: These Are The Companies That Are Trying To Build The Metaverse. While Linden Lab (214+ employees) is mentioned so is their competition; Altspace VR (20± employees), Facebook, and High Fidelity (). It seems Comcast and the Japanese company Tencent are investing in Altspace.

{ Down in the holler } — Down in the holler

Palmer Luckey is mentioned as talking about it being harder to abusive in VR than in the current 3D virtual worlds we have now. MO doesn’t exactly point us to where it is Palmer is talking. But, their article is inspired by an article on Re/code and they quote Palmer, “Virtual reality will make it a lot harder to be a total dick to somebody online.” Re/code says Philip Rosedale, co-founder of Second Life™ and CEO of High Fidelity, agrees.

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Second Life Bits week 30

2015/08/03 by Nalates Urriah

Yeah… week 30. I wrote this a couple of weeks ago and it got lost. The information is still good, so today it gets published.

How Big is Wow

Massively Overpowered pointed me to a video showing how big World of Warcraft is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=32&v=ihF0wJlYSus

Voicing Opinion

SL Blogger Support has an article about problems some bloggers are having. One is in regard to voicing opinions. Check out comments below the article: She’s mad as hell and she’s not going to take this anymore!

Blender 2.75a Released

2015/08/03 by Nalates Urriah

You may be ahead of me on this. Blender updated July8th and I am just noticing it… a month later. There isn’t much that affects those using it for building Second Life Models.

See: Blender.org

Obviously I’m not working on my Blender stuff… RL work is picking up. Yay!

The list of new features is here (also download). About the only change that helps Second Life™ users is the Decimate modifier being improved.

Strawberry Bounces

2015/08/03 by Nalates Urriah

Second Life’s Strawberry Singh has an article on Avatar Physics (booby bounce) with mesh bodies: Second Life Avatar Physics. It includes a link to this video: (dancing starts about halfway in)

Strawberry’s berries bounce…

Strawberry points us to Firestorm’s tutorial on Avatar Physics, which teaches you how to make your own physics layers. She has made her own layers for the Maitreya Lara mesh body. These are almost free (L$1).

Hamlet, Kat, and Elitism for Clicks

2015/08/02 by Nalates Urriah

Hamlet has an article where he is pointing to Kat Alderman’s comment (here) on Hamlet’s article: Second Life No Longer a Creation Platform, But an End-Point Display for Creativity.

Candid shot of Owner Nanceee Sinatra, PCE Graves and Singer Mapoo Little at Frank's Elite Jazz Club in Second Life, Feb 28/12 — Candid shot

Kat’s statements that caught my attention are:

Second Life™ News Week 31-32

2015/08/032015/08/02 by Nalates Urriah

Other bit of news from the Third Party Developer’s meeting (7/31):

RSS Feed for Grid Status

RSS feed for Grid Status is moving to new platform. The URL will not change just the format is changing from RSS1 to RSS2. But, if you read the status pages, the change is visually significant.