Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Oh wow… we finally get to see it. I’m downloading now.
Download Second Life Viewer 2.0 Beta
New World Notes has an article on it up today. Second Life 2.0 Analysis: Epic Win for Userbase, Competition Killer… But Not Mass Market Game Changer (Yet)
Linden Lab is answering questions here: Answers to a Few FAQs on Viewer 2
Those that have played the Myst games made by Cyan Worlds, Inc. (First Myst game cira 1993) will be glad to know that Myst Online Uru Live has reopened and is free to play.
The official opening was about two weeks ago. The first week was tough. The servers overloaded as thousands rushed to download the game. Both download and game servers were overloaded. Those problems have been handled and things are much smoother now.
There is a donation button on the Myst Online Play page. Donations were generous enough that Cyan Worlds could upgrade the servers. That has helped with game play being smoother. Download mirrors have been set up so one can take advantage of their high speed connections for downloading.
Download at: Myst Online Uru Live Again
Emerald is currently in a fast release cycle right now. A significant release came out on the 17th with 2 more quick releases following. I am expecting at least one more soon.
Updated from Emerald Viewer 1.23.5.1582 (2/17) to Emerald Viewer 1.23.5.1585 (2/18) and as of 2/22 to version 1.23.5.1626 1.64 mb Download
Update: Some Mac users are (were) having voice problems (1585). Get download: Mac Voice
There are (were) some image upload issues with v1585. See: Emerald Viewer Image Uploads Hotfix
The download I got today (2/22) actually shows version 1628…
The grid manager has been improved over version 1582. It now saves your log on information. Yay! That helps. There is now an ‘Edit Saved Logins’ button on the login screen.
I’ve been distracted by Myst Online reopening…
Kirsten has a new release of her viewer out. I’m downlaoding it now. More later.
Updated: 2/9/2010
Those that have played Myst and its online cousin Uru Live are rejoicing to day (2/8). 🙂 The Myst Online web site posted that they opened a new Uru Live server and made the game download available for free. MystOnline.com 🙂
Today, February 8, the servers are totally hammered and have been for hours. The Uru fan forums are exploding with speculation and impatience to get in. However Cyan warned that they are using a small registration server and it would be slow. It is. 🙁
The Second Life group D’ni Refugees has been chatting about it all day.
Many of us have heard that Blender 2.5 is on the way. Blender 2.5 Alpha 0 is out and can be downloaded. It is Alpha software. Some features from the 2.4 series are not all working in 2.5. How the missing features are implemented is changing, so there is some delay. There seems to be lots of changes coming. One thing that has not changed is installation information which is still limited and what is out there pretty much assumes one is a geek. So, I’ll provide some help I think is less geeky.