July 1 nVidia put up a new release of its video drivers. These drivers are backward compatible to many older video cards.
New nVidia Driver 320.49 Released
Blender 2.68 RC1 Released
There is a great article by Gaia Clary in the SL Forum: Blender 2.68: Weight Tools reworked. She is explaining how weight painting in Blender has improved. Tools work as one intuitively thinks they should. I see that as a big improvement. I’ve fought with Blender weight painting for some time.
Also the documentation has been updated. See the Vertex Groups section of the 2.6 manual.
Blender 2.67b is currently the stable release. But, a Blender 2.68 Release Candidate is out. See the Blender download page for the 2.67b version. There is a candidates download page here.
Oculus Rift – VR Update
There is an update on KickStarter.com about the status of the Oculus Rift, which is adopting the name Oculus VR. See the update here: Shipping Update, E3 2013 Recap and Oculus 0.2.3 SDK Release – Update #38 – July 4th, 2013. This update is about the release of the 1080p developer’s headset. Scroll down the … Read more
And Yet Another Interview with Rod Humble 2013-27
These just keep popping up. Ciaran Level in Linden Lab CEO Rod Humble on Second Life’s Tween Years links to the article on AllThingsD: Linden Lab CEO Rod Humble on Second Life’s Tween Years (Q&A).
Also Jo Yardley has an article, up about the same interview: Oculus Rift in Second Life goes public late summer!
Again Rod comments on Second Life’s performance and how it has been a prime concern. Rod says that this year he believes he will be able to say, “Hey, performance is good.” I definitely will go with ‘better.’ But, I’m going to have see more before I’ll say ‘good.’ I also suspect it is going to be ‘good’ for SL.
Another Rod Interview 2013-27
The site Co.Create has an article about Second Life™ by Susan Karlin. She interviews Rod Humble, Linden Lab CEO. The title is: A Look At Second Life’s Second Decade. Jo Yardley posted about it on Facebook.
Susan gets into the creative nature of people in Second Life. She mentions Jo and Drax.
Update on SSA
Surely by now you know SSA is Server Side Appearance, which is about baking your avatar appearance. The Lindens have posted a second notice that SSA will be here next week. See: It’s Time to Update Your Viewer!
And they reuse their previous video:
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Please make sure all your friends know about the coming update and the need for them to be using a recent version of whatever viewer they use.