Nalates' Things & Stuff

Drax World Makers Episode 5: Engrama

2013/05/03 by Nalates Urriah

This episode of Drax’s World Makers features musicians that are using Second Life™ to reach an international audience.

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Facebook is boring… Second Life is exciting… Argentinean Pupito Helstein and Lakua Arriaga have fresh take on how they can meet fans and reach a larger audience.

The indie group is Engrama, which if I translate accurately is a spin on something that creates a memory. But, I may be losing something or missing the mark in the translation process. Whatever, you can find them in-world.

According to the events schedule there is a free concert May 11, Saturday, at 3:00 AM SLT. That is a little hard for USA West Coasters to make. The location is Lavender Island. There is a group joiner there.

No Power

2013/05/02 by Nalates Urriah

There is a large construction project in my part of the world. Tomorrow, Thursday as I write this, that means I’ll have no electricity from 8AM to 5PM. So, I won’t be posting from home. Depending on how the day goes, I may use a friend’s computer… or we may go out for food.

Firestorm Problems 2013-18

2013/05/01 by Nalates Urriah

Lette has a new page up with solutions for the top three problems Firestorm Support is seeing: Frequently Asked Firestorm Support Questions: May 1.

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The three top problems are:

Missing Inventory Items
Textures Not Rezzing
Black Rectangles in Pictures

Lette has provided the fixes the Firestorm Team has.

Second Life Viewer Release Changing

2013/05/01 by Nalates Urriah

You probably know that the server updates come through 3 releases channels; Blue Steel, Le Tigre, and Magnum. This is sort of having 3 Beta versions running at the same time. It allows 3 different sets of code be tested at the same time. The best performing of the three gets promoted to the main channel.

The result is the server code update at a pretty fast pace. In fact so fast that several server updated features are waiting on the viewer to update.

Neverwinter MMOG

2013/05/01 by Nalates Urriah

Neverwinter goes to open Beta today. They have a great trailer out. But, don’t confuse what you see in the trailer with the actual game. This is ad-hype at the height of hyping.

See the American Times site for more details and some images from the ACTUAL game. Below is a video from the official site.

Hope for Virtual Worlds

2013/05/01 by Nalates Urriah

Forbes has an article out today: After Second Life, Can Virtual Worlds Get a Reboot? The article is an interview with Jacki Morie, a virtual world designer in telehealth care. She has been working with injured returning soldiers.

We see people interested in virtual worlds and 3D imaging in many places. People are finding uses never thought of. There is little consensus as to where it is going, just that it is going.