Drax Streaming Sansar LIVE NOW

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Yep… Drax is doing it live… The stream is going up and down. At 10:39 AM PT it went down. Here is what I can find now. NOW  up and LIVE here: https://gaming.youtube.com/c/Draxtor/live PS: 12 Noon and still streaming…

Second Life – Third-Party Dev News 2017 w30

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Some new news this week. Some of it BIG!

Viewers

The Maintenance RC Version Viewer updated. The update includes a couple of important crash fixes. Oz Linden is requesting third party developers include one of them as soon as possible.

This past week was a perfect storm for the Lab. A backhoe literally cut a network cable. This cut off a significant number of people, dropped connection disconnects. Of course, for them, it was WTH! They then tried to log in again. The Internet being redundant, as it is figured out a new connection path suddenly thousands of users started trying to log in.

The login servers peaked and started to lag. Low-level code in the viewer’s login process started timing out and retrying the login. The code was very aggressive and thousands of users began unknowingly hammering the login servers. The storm of logins created what was essentially a Denial of Service attack. The result was more and more people were blocked from logging in which resulted in more hammering. A Catch-22. 

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Sansar Opening Week 31?

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There is a rumor, started by a Linden, Friday past that Sansar™ will be opening the wider Beta this coming week (#31). Second Life is GOING to CONTINUE!

I consider that exciting and very probably accurate information, considering the source.

Sansar Logo – Trademark of Linden Lab – Earth Picture Public Domain

I speculate…

I expect this to be the very basic Sansar. Many of the features we are accustomed to in SL will be missing. They haven’t gotten to building them yet. Support for older hardware will DEFINITELY be missing. Also, I am not at all sure VR will be available. If it is, it may be limited to the Rift. I can hope for more devices… like Gear VR O.O

Support for older hardware will DEFINITELY be missing. The definition of older among SL users will likely have to change. The Core-2 and Pentium processors are old. Deal with it. Video cards older than the NVIDIA 1000 series are old. However, some high end 900 series card will likely be usable. But, the 900 series users will certainly risk simulator sickness.

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Second Life Content Creation UG Video Index 2017-07-27

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Another CC UG Meeting. There are some interesting bits of new news. Check the Index to select parts of the video of interest to you or watch the whole thing.

Index

0:00:41 – Meeting starts. Vir tells the SL version of the Bento Avatar is back online. For a time its home at Amazon Cloud was down. That has been fixed. There were still some link issues from the SL Wiki. I don’t know if those have been fixed.

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