Second Life and Virtual Worlds
I picked the game form the Top Five listed over on Road to VR. These are rated as some of the best VR games available. I think this is a good example of the radical game play possible.
This next one shows the excitement possible.
There is hope for VR. But, it is hard to know how many people will like VR enough to spend some money.
Apparently, an AvaStar update was released July 3rd. I’m just seeing it today. Download – You have to have purchased AvaStar for the link to work right.
Beautiful, cute picture with Bento hands. The sentiment is debatable…
This is interesting…
The server roll this morning was canceled last minute. I think it was the Package on Magnum intended to roll out. The fix was to reduce problems with the system losing connection with the SL back end. But, something in the update was overloading the SL back end. So… next week… maybe.
The Lindens are unsure what they are going to do for Wednesday’s usual RC updates. The usual deploys thread is mostly useless.
From the Server-Scripting meeting we learn the Lindens are trying to get the package repaired and rolled to an RC channel tomorrow, Wednesday.
Today is Simon Linden’s 10th Rez Day!
BUG-9666 – BUG-100487 – These were brought up in the SS UG meeting asking for new features and data.
The main viewer remains 5.0.6.326593. No change.
Second Life Alex Ivy Viewer version 5.1.0.507006 – No change.
Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 5.0.7.327250 – No change.
Second Life Voice Viewer version 5.0.7.327253 – No change.
Second Life Project 360 Snapshot Viewer version 5.1.0.506743 – No change.
There is work ongoing in the viewer-world. Expect to see a flurry of changes soon.
Strawberry Singh has released a tutorial for those making machinimas using the Firestorm Viewer. You’ll find it here: Second Life Vlogging & Machinima Viewer Tips. It is, of course, a video but. It is backed up with a text version too, good for quick reference. Click the image to jump to YouTube.
I use both the Firestorm and Linden viewers for capturing video. I do think Firestorm is a better choice for most video capture scenarios. I used the Linden viewer as I better knew how to use its voice controls. As Learn how better to control sound I am moving to Firestorm. But, I was curious how many of the Firestorm features are in the Linden viewers.
As I worked through Singh’s list I found the Linden viewer has pretty much the same controls. But, they are way easier to get to and to use with Firestorm. If this were a ‘features’ contest, I would say Firestorm wins on presentation.
Very short meeting, 20± minutes. Nothing new. Just status updates.
The first subject was the JIRA spamming. For now, the JIRA is locked down, no comments. There is no idea how long it will take to build a spam block.
The Alex Ivy viewer is out as the main viewer. It will update soon as a couple of problems were found. The Lindens are working on the launcher that figures out if it should load the 32 or 64-bit version of the viewer. They are also adding a setting to allow the user to override the automatic detection and force install of one or the other.