Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Second Life™ resident Canary Beck notes in her blog that the Basilique region is featured in 4 of the ‘What SL Means to me…’ videos. That is pretty neat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqdodqHJ-AA
More videos showing Basilique are included in Canary’s article.
Ciaran Laval has a summary of the video of Jessica Lyons, Oz Linden and Saffia Widdershins. See: Oz Linden Talks Second Life At SL12B.
Canary Beck has an article: Pete Linden Shares Linden Lab’s Sophisticated Approach To Marketing Second Life At SL12B. It is based on a video of Pete and Xiola at SL12B’s Meet the Lindens. She is making the point that the communities idea of the Lab not marketing Second Life is simply wrong. But, she makes no comment on how well, or not, they are marketing SL.
I suggest reading Canary’s article. I think it gives a good idea of what the Lab says it is doing. But, like many things what we think we are accomplishing and what we are accomplishing are often different. Looking in the search engines on ‘fashion’… it just ain’t happening.
You may know I am a Myst fan, the most popular game of the 1990’s. Recently news came that Hulu will be creating a TV series based on the game. That has been picked up by and is rippling through the gaming blogs. A list of the articles is here: Myst-Hulu Series.
A good article touching on the history of Myst, outlining Hulu’s acquisition of story rights, and some of the people involved can be found at Deadline.com: Hulu Lands ‘Myst’ Drama From Legendary TV & Matt Tolmach Based On Video Game.
Zarrakan Productions put out a video of a meeting with Danger Linden, Drax, Safia W., and Troy Linden. Much of the discussion is about Sansar and what Linden Lab is doing. Below is the video and my summary of it.
As usual, I paraphrase. Listen/watch the video for better context and exact wording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeeM4wOSOKo
Content starts at Tme Mark (TM) 03:42. Introductions and how Danger and Troy came to Second Life and some of their work history.
Danger was Senior Product Manager for Sansar but is now 100% with SL. Troy is a Senior Producer, a product owner. I am still not clear on how much of his time is with Sansar or SL.
8:10 – Sansar started from almost scratch.
Indigo Mertel caught an article titled: Second Life Creator Linden Lab Prepares To Test Parallel VR Universe. There are some new bits of information about Project Sansar, aka Second Life 2.0. A quick summary of the new information follows:
Linden Lab plans to have testers in Sansar starting the end of July, 2015.
Sansar runs at 75 frames per second (FPS) and will run at 90 FPS to meet the expected Oculus Rift requirements.
First one into the new world will by handpicked, skilled creators.
Additional beta testers will be invited into Sansar the first half of 2016.
A Sansar version 1.0 will be ready by the end of 2016.
Indie Teepee is new to me. I find it is an annual music, arts and shopping festival, held from the 10th to the 24th of July. The event will feature music, live performances, a drive-in machinima screening, original mesh designers and art installations. Sounds interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okog1BQ65KM
But, in, I guess, a spin off there is a podcaster covering Second Life™ in a series named Indie Teepee. Oddly enough I ran into all this on Facebook while following up on the SLUniverse article asking designers to stop using Firestorm, which I still think is an odd way to go about fixing a lag issue in SL.