Second Life and Virtual Worlds
I’ve been interested in the LEAP Motion controller since I first heard about it and the Oculus Rift. So, seeing Engadget’s review appear online I had to check it out.
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Obviously they found some problems. You can read more about their experience at their web site: Leap Motion controller review.
There is a new version of the CtrlAltStudio Viewer for Oculus Rift. See the announcement here: Alpha 2 of the CtrlAltStudio Viewer with Oculus Rift Support.
This is another of my articles on climate. If you are intellectually honest, regardless of which side of the debate you are on, this is a must read article linked to a just released video. You’ll either want to be able to refute the points made or understand them for your own use. Either way the information here will likely surprise you because the information in the 50:1 video first stipulates that everything the UN’s IPCC has claimed about climate change, global warming, AGW, whatever you call it today is true. It isn’t, but for the sake of this argument we’ll pretend it is.
Also, there is the matter of the UN’s creation of the term ‘Climate Deniers’ or deniers for short. There is no such person on the planet. When the UN cannot defeat the meat of an argument against the idea of main made climate change they make the ad hominem attack that those presenting the argument are just deniers that ignore all science and the fact that climate is changing. One really should look at who is denying what. But, again for this argument we’ll pretend that all the UN is saying is true.
Project 50 to 1 is a kick starter funded project that used IndieGoGo and direct PayPal donations. Lord Monckton and his foundation provided the initial basic math using the IPCC’s numbers. Those numbers can be found in his paper: Is CO2 mitigation cost-effective? If you are not into math, just watch the video. If you hope to refute the information, you need to deal with the math.
This video was made to support the fund raiser and set out the goals of the main video effort. The final 50:1 video is further down.
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You may figure out that the cost of the video is more than just the direct cost of editing and distributing a video. Remember. They traveled to interview some pretty heavy hitters in the climate debate. They were scatter across the world. You can see the individual interviews on the 50 to 1 Project web site.
Because of the Monday holiday in the USA, server roll outs are pushed back one day. The news on the server roll outs is a bit fuzzy as Simon Linden was not available at today’s user group meeting. Not has Maestro Linden made a Deploys post. But, Andrew Linden tells us the package on the RC channels this last week is to be rolling out to the main channel on Wednesday.
Andrew added a fix that is in that package fixing a grief mode where really big objects could push avatars out of a the region. Faux rotating kfm megaprims don’t knock people out of the sim anymore. Andrew specifically targeted those prims.
There is a recent video up of an interview by Engadget with Oculus VR’s Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell talking about Oculus Share. 13 minutes.
It seems the task of sharing has come up for the Oculus developers. Consider. Have you thought of how often we take screen captures to share with others? How would you do that while using the Rift?
There is also the challenge of how will you use stores, find Rift games… all the basic tasks, in and out of game, we perform when preparing to, playing, exploring, and sharing games. This will apparently some like KOINUP, but for Rift users and developers.
You had to know this was coming… no pun intended. I think it is basic human nature to wonder how sex would be with or if… and add your whatever here… It’s like which is more fun peanut butter, Nutella, or chocolate syrup? And if you include an ice cube and …
So, the question has to have run through some minds regarding how sex would be with the Oculus Rift. A lot of people seem to play the game of ‘breaking in’ new things. When I first thought of it I guessed people would be dodging when Tango Lolas went by.
Well it is not just running through some minds. A company in Irvine, California named Sinful Robot is developing a ‘sex’ game for the Oculus Rift: Sinful Robot is hiring people and moving ahead in developing an erotic game that will have as its basic quest as sexual gratification. AND this has been in progress for almost a year. Nobody told me…