Second Life and Virtual Worlds
RL is keeping me busy this week. I am mostly skimming head lines to see what is going on in Second Life™. That results in short notes on things.
The Lab is doing a thing with Dell Computers. You have a chance to win a free laptop. If you don’t know Alienware is a company owned by Dell that makes gaming machines. I think they are expensive for what you get, but they are good machines. So… check out the announcement and see if you can win a free one.
I came to Second Life from Must Online: Uru Live. Uru is the only part of the Myst series to make it online. It didn’t do well. There is a whole saga about the game and how it earned the title: The Game that Won’t Die. Check the category here if your interested.
Uru Live is slowly going open source. The kink in this open source is the content is not going open source. That essentially means the game is still very much proprietary and restricted. So, there is never much new going on the current free Uru Live.
Everyone seems to be playing with materials. For those interested there are changes and new pages appearing in the SL Wiki.
Here is a tidbit of data. There is an interesting poster that popped up on Facebook about Second Life™. It has a few stats about SL.
There is a good sized update on the wiki page for JSON Usage. So, if you’re considering using JSON, you should probably check it out.
Some news is coming in on Adobe’s change to a monthly release plan. It seems it is being well accepted. Adobe’s published earning is beating the street’s estimates. See Tech Crunch for details: Adobe’s Q2 Earnings Beat Street With $1.011B In Revenue, $0.36 EPS, 700K Paying Creative Cloud Subscribers or 92% of their users.
New features are rolling out in the CC version of the software. Below is a Photoshop change in how it works with 3D painting.
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A longer and more detailed Q&A about the new CC is here: Adobe MAX: What’s New in Photoshop CC. This is mostly and audio with slides. And while it uses Photoshop in the title, this is more about how CC works.
I plan to sign up this month.