Second Life and Virtual Worlds
I saw Strawberry’s mime for Monday. I suspect I know how many of us will answer the questions. But, it is fun to get feedback.
You can find Strawberry’s article here: Questions about Linden Lab TOS.
Polls after the fold.
Check out the castAR VR system. This is now a funded, but still open, Kickstarter project.
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This is the one-ups-manship that the free market creates. This combines Oculus, Google Glasses, and shutter glasses.
I’m not sure about the claim of no motion sickness. I think that is likely true in the AR mode. When one changes over to the full VR lenses I would think they have the same problem as Oculus.
Also, I can’t really tell what resolution the glasses are providing.
There was a roll to the main channel today. This is the package that ran on all the RC channels. This is mostly a bug-fix package.
The Bug Fixes:
No new packages will roll to the RC’s. It is not clear if they are going to be restarted or not. The package they were testing is the package rolling to the main channel. The result is both the main and RC channels will run the same version this week. So, a restart is not needed in the RC channels as the package is already running.
Update: See Strawberry’s Monday Mime.
Last Saturday the United Content Creators of Second Life™ (UCCSL) sponsored a meeting to discuss the Terms of Service (ToS) changes made in August. They put together a panel of attorneys to answer questions. I think it was the Second Life™ Bar Association that provided RL attorneys to form an answer panel. I was able to attend only part of the meeting, but there are audio recordings and Machinima of the entire 3-hour meeting.
A full three-hour audio recording was captured by Toysoldier Thor. You can listen to it from a link on Toy’s blog: Recap & Audio – Inworld Legal Panel Talk on LL TOS. Toy’s opinion is that people should listen to the audio and make up their own minds about opinions provided by the UCCSL panel. I’ll go a bit further and add some opinion.
Inara has a summary of the meeting up. See: ToS changes: Legal panel discussion – audio recordings and notes. She has images of the slides used in the meeting. Plus lots of time marks in the summary.
Second Life™ Viewer 3.6.8 (282367) Oct 14 is a hot fix release for an ATI driver incompatibility problem. The Release Candidates will be getting updated with this change too.
Richard Linden says the project is coming to an end and viewer side source code is out. TPV Dev’s are looking at it. The changes have NOT been through QA and are NOT ready for release. But, at least TPV Dev’s can see what they will need to handle. More eyes mean more bugs found and more brains thinking mean more solutions and improvements.
While building the coming Interest List release the Lindens were focused on things not rendering but still having a presence in the physics engine. Sever changes at this point are significant. The viewer is a preliminary version without significant change.
Short work break for me. I came across this in my Google+. I had to say smething.
If you caught my articles on Cyan Wolrds and their Myst series, you know they have been talking about a kickstarter project. Well, it is here. Check out the Kickstarter page: Obduction. (That is not misspelled.)
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At about the 2:15 time mark Rand Miller begins talking about the project.
The company is trying to raise US$1.1 million to make the project happen. This is a major test of the Myst fan base. For years we, the fan community, have argued about what would work and how easy or difficult it would be to fund a new Myst like game or version of Myst. The project will answer those questions.
The project has over taken the Cyan.com web site. Plus they have a web site up for the project: ObductionGame.com.
There is a thread in the Myst Forum: Cyan Kickstarter Project Open: OBDUCTION
If you are a Myst fan, get the word around.
Back to work…