Second Life and Virtual Worlds
I saw this in an email a friend sent. It had me thinking of Second Life drama. It is a cute ad from TNT, the television people. I thought it too fun not to share.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316AzLYfAzw
Now if we could just find the ‘button’ for Second Life drama…
I haven’t been following Massively for some time. Coverage of Myst-Uru and Second Life fell off and so did I. But, I saw a Plurk by Indigo Mertel about an article: Free for All: Second Life, the little 75 million-dollar engine that could.
It is an interesting read in the light of SL9B.
In my article #SL News Update Week 24 I wrote about SCR-79 and a possible new group matching function.
Many tasks in Second Life® would benefit from a better function for group membership checks. It would help scripters and residents. Residents would not have to pay as much attention to which group they have active. Scripters would not have to deal with getting residents to change their active group to get free group gifts or access to restricted locations.
But that is not to be. Kelly Linden was hoping to be able to add a better group check. Kelly relates what he found. I’ll try to explain provide context for the decision after the quote.
I know this is week 25. But, I’m a bit behind.
The Mesh Deformer has been the subject of lots of debate and discussion. It centers around the Mesh Clothes Sizing and how that will or won’t be handled in the Parametric Deformer Project, aka Mesh Deformer.
Last week (24) Karl Stiefvater, the Mesh Deformer coder, talked about where development of the Mesh deformer is headed in a MetaReality’s podcast: Come Together. Discussion starts about the 34:20 minute mark.
It seems sizes are out. Don’t get excited if you are Standard Size supporter. The real issue is how to fit our custom shapes and deal with some of the extreme shapes Second Life® users use. It looks like a better way has been found then using standard sizes or multiple base shapes, which was my favored solution until now.
The show is titled: Come Together.
I’m behind. I’ve been wanting to take the time to listen to the podcast for a couple of days and just now got around to it.
Usual caveats here… Don’t blame them for what I write until AFTER you listen to them.
I’ve added the usual time marks.
If you follow my writing you know I like numbers and arguments based in facts with numbers I can look at, consider, and extrapolate from. Peter Ferrara has such an article out about the math behind green energy. Some of the numbers are amazing and his points are well made.
If you are a closed mind on green energy you’re not going to like the facts Mr. Ferrara presents. Skip the read. But, if you are concerned about the impoverished people of the world, this is an important read. If you are a true conservationist without a green radical agenda, this is the information you’ll want to know.