Second Life and Virtual Worlds
With word coming that the Phoenix and older Firestorm viewers will be blocked from the SL Grid by the Firestorm Team, it would seem Singularity is in a good position to pick up more users. So, this new release is welcome news to many.
The headline for Singularity is that it gets Media On A Prim (MOAP) with this version. There are 20± more additions to the Singularity Viewer.
See the announcement here: 1.8.1 – Prim Media.
Loki is a creative SL personality. He has just posted about his store.
Take some time to check it out. I had trouble finding a link to get me to the right place. So, here is where I figured out I should be: Escapades – Loki Adventure Shop.
We have the plans for this week’s roll outs. Caleb Linden tells us that there will be no roll to the main grid. That probably means no region restart either.
This channel gets a new maintenance package. The release notes are here. The fixes included are:
BUG-3547 – Sim Crossing Rezzes Objects Surrounding Individuals. The grey box attachment problem. It is described as: A grey box, untextured, rezzed around a person sitting on a vehicle (Loonetta Sailing Boat) when the boat performed a sim crossing. The box generally surrounds most of the person who was sitting in the passenger seat of the boat. It happened repeatedly. The person then loses any form of avatar control and must relog. The box appears, when edited, to be linked to the boat.
BUG-3291 – llListen in linked objects is listening at root instead of linked object local position *after re-rezzing the linkset* Note: Attachments always listen at the AV position.
Fixed a few crash modes.
New: Region should block rezzing and entering during final region restart countdown time, the 60 seconds before a shutdown.
This channel also gets a new package. It is said to only include a few internal bug fixes which shouldn’t show any visible changes to the residents.
This channel is going to keep the SSA package. It gets no changes and may not even see a restart pass.
Indigo Mertel posted on Facebook about these SpaceGlasses. cNet has an interview with the developer: Meta’s Meron Gribetz and the rise of the natural machine. But the fun part is the video.
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In an earlier article I pointed out the rush all the companies are in to capture a part of the mobile market. Oculus is in the race for mobile market share too.
This is going to be controversial and upset a lot of people. What it is, is a two hour and 45 minute video of a Firestorm meeting that showed up on YouTube. I didn’t see any announcement of the meeting. I do watch for such announcements. Some get past me. Whatever, there is some hot news in the video. If your in a hurry to see what is going to upset people, look for the red text (hint: page 2).
The video below is from a Firestorm-in-development viewer. It shows Materials in Firestorm. This version has not yet been released it is coming. It is not the video of the meeting.
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I doubt many will have time for watching the whole three hours of video of the August 10th Q & A meeting. I have a link to it at the end of the article. I decided to index it while I worked my way through it. It would be great if it were an MP3. I could play at 1.5x speed.
I am paraphrasing the whole video index I’ve made. My biases and prejudices can color what I hear. So, if something tics you off, watch the video then start your rant.
This is a Firestorm Q&A meeting where Jessica Lyon gets into some hard to swallow news. This is the end of the Phoenix Viewer.
Darrius Gothly has closed up his in-world store due to the region owner/landlord running into problems.
Also, he is closing up his Market Place store in preparation to leaving Second Life™. Various subscription services are being withdrawn from the market. Subscriptions will not be renewed. Once they have all expired, Darrius is planning on departing SL.
You can read his posting: Endings … And Beginnings.
Darrius sees things as many do that leave SL. He perceives the management of SL as messing things up and wanting to abandon SL and move on to new products. I think he is nuts. But, humans are capable of seeing only what they want to see. In spite of mountain ranges of evidence contrary to their opinions.