Second Life and Virtual Worlds
This past Friday was the Third Party Developers’ User Group meeting. This one was longer than recent ones and lots was discussed. Video:
Project Managed Marketplace Viewer (VMM) version 3.7.25.298865 – A new version of this Project Viewer was released Friday. A blog post about it was being prepared Friday (2/13). A feedback meeting is planned. Brooke sounds like a politicians when talking about the meeting. It is going to be about explaining the feature and getting feedback.
The Firestorm (FS) team is tentatively planning a viewer release for March, which they hope will have all the Linden updates and bring FS current with the SL Viewer. There is some concern about whether the Lab will have Viewer Managed Marketplace (VMM) ready in time for the FS Team to integrate it into FS for the next release.
The anticipated release for VMM is near the FS feature freeze window for the March release date for FS’ new version. That means the FS people have to rush the inclusion or delay the release, if the Lab hits their early release date, which could happen. I wouldn’t bet on it. But, I also wouldn’t bet against it.
Art… we all have our preferences. If you have ever looked at my Flickr Favorites you have an idea of the type of art I like. You’ll probably suspect Bryn Oh’s work isn’t something likely to appeal to me as it never looks like what I have as favorites on Flickr. But, I am fascinated by Bryn’s work. It always has an ability to pull me in. I always take time to look at it.
The video is a re-render of itself with some missing dialoged added. It seems Bryn’s cat deleted some of the dialog in the previous render. – – Hey… it’s his story and he is sticking to it. Cats are sneaky devious creatures.
Jo Yardley has posted about the graphics available when world builders use the Unreal Engine. See: Stunning demo shows what is possible in VR graphics with Unreal Engine.
I am sure it will be pretty awesome to use the Oculus Rift HMD in a world like this.
Ciaran Laval has an article up on his site that gives a good summary of recent changes in Second Life and coming changes. See: Linden Lab Ask Us To Check Out Improvements To Second Life. I’ve mentioned some of these weeks ago but he goes into more detail and collects them into one place.
Daniel Voyager has a similar article: Linden Lab publishes upcoming improvements to Second Life.
Directly from the Lab: Check Out the Latest Improvements to Second Life.
This is a big change. I’m not sure I like it. In fact I currently dislike it so much this may be a change that drives me to Firefox or CoolNovo.
The change was only appearing in the Beta version of Chrome, which I run. But, it is feedback from beta users that will decide if this feature becomes mainstream, which is probably a near certainty anyway, based on Google’s past history of how they change Chrome and other Google products. Feedback may change it, but I doubt it will stop it.
It seems some Kokua users have had some problems with the 3.7.24 (previous) version of the viewer. Also, some on third party grids have seen the viewer crash. But, Kokua does make an OpenSim version that is more compatible with OpenSim grids.