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Second Life Bits 2016 w/47

2016/11/28 by Nalates Urriah

Lumiya viewer adds support for Google Cardboard. Inara has an article detailing it. There are some interesting user interface ideas.

Inara covers Radegast’s recent voice issues, a viewer apparently favored by the disabled.

VLC

You may or may not be aware of the VLC media player. It is a free, open source video player. It has basically replaced QuickTime in the SL viewers. The development team, VideoLAN Project has added the ability to view 360-video and pictures. See: VLC media player now supports 360-degree videos.

Second Life: Dragons as Art

2016/11/24 by Nalates Urriah

I’ve seen several people write about “From Here On There Be Dragons.” It is an art exhibit in Second Life^(TM). Follow the previous link to find a SLURL and visit. The exhibit closed January 31, 2017. I decided to check it out.

Still pictures don’t do it justice. Since I’m learning Adobe Premiere Pro, I decided to video the exhibit and use it as another project.

Exploring the exhibit is a reoccurring ‘leap of faith’ trek. There is a lot if invisible flooring to walk across.

Second Life: Horizons’ Land Prices

2016/11/24 by Nalates Urriah

Horizons land is pricey. As of Wednesday, the least a parcel was going for was L$1,010, the most L$35,029. The average is L$11,216. While most parcels in SL have 1 or 2 bidders and go for L$500, Horizons land has 6 to 15 bidders. I am not surprised to find a mix of parcels that … Read more

Second Life News 2016 w/47

2016/11/222016/11/22 by Nalates Urriah

This is not the week for news. Because of the US holiday Thanksgiving Second Life™ is in technical lock down, no changes. So, there are no server upgrades this week, main or RC channels.

Viewers

Viewers are included in the tech freeze. So, the main viewer at version 4.1.2.321518 will remain there until Monday 11/28 or later. Word is it is much more stable than the previous version. It has a lot of fixes.

Mesh Addicts Explains Bento

2016/11/21 by Nalates Urriah

Daria of Mesh Body Addicts blog has a video explaining Bento. It is great for the person that is just interested in knowing enough to understand what it is about and what the difference between the classic skeleton we have not and the new Bento Skeleton, Daria promises to provide more information in a future … Read more

Second Life Third Party Dev Meeting 2016 w46

2016/11/19 by Nalates Urriah

I’ve put what I consider the big news from the meeting in the post: Peace Comes to Second Life… Really?!? If you are having problems with things that use mouselook, read that article.

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Viewers

The Maintenance RC Viewer was promoted to the main viewer: 4.1.2.321518. There are a lot of fixes in the update. But, it includes the fix from previous versions that broke mouselook weapons and other mouselook stuff. For details on the bug read the Peace Comes article.