I used to do a review of the past year. See my Annual Review tag. But, that is a lot of work and time. So, not this year.
Merry Xmas
This year the Lindens have done a year in review piece. See: Putting a Big Ol’ Bow on 2016 in Second Life! It is a good quick review of what has changed in 2016.
This is the eighth of probably 12 articles reviewing mostly the technical changes made in Second Life™. Click the Annual Review in the TAGS drop down to the right or at the bottom of the post to see the other months.
…Under The Sea…
Brooke Linden announced migration to the Viewer Managed Marketplace had completed. This was announced at the first Third Party Developers’ meeting in August. Continue reading
This is the seventh of probably 12 articles reviewing the technical changes in Second Life™. Click Annual Review in the TAGS drop down to the right to see the other months.
This is the month Experiences Tools were partially released, actually 6/30. The release was to premium members only. Anyone could participate in an Experience, but only Premium Members could build one. Details here.
Kerri Fegte posted about photography tools one can use with the SL viewer. See: Second Life: Photography Tools.
This month Lance announced that he no longer can take the time to keep the Dolphin Viewer updated. Continue reading
This is the sixth of may be 12 articles about 2015. – To find the entire collection of Second Life™ Year End Review articles look in the right-hand column for the TAG’s drop down and click: Annual Review.
12.06.15 – Summer Fun
This month we got a lot of information about Project Sansar. Several interviews were given and recorded to video. Links near the end. Continue reading
This is the fifth of may be 12 articles about 2015. – To find the collection of Year End Review articles look in the right-hand column for the TAG’s drop down and click: Annual Review.
ROCHE – May 2015
The first 10 days or so of May I was traveling. Continue reading
This is the fourth of may be 12 articles about 2015. – To find the collection of Year End Review articles look in the right-hand column and click the TAG: Annual Review.
Of course the first thing of the month is April Fool’s Day. The Lab released their new viewer made just for the day: Introducing 2DSS Mode for Second Life.
Ballons – April 2015
In April Strawberry Singh posted Mean Comments Meme and an impactful image. I think this post was a highlight of the year. My thoughts. Strawberry’s post became controversial. See: Philosophy at Easter – Mean Comments Continue reading
Wow, I pumped out 96 posts in the month of March. This is the third of may be 12 articles about 2015. – To find the collection of Year End Review articles look in the right-hand column and click the TAG: Annual Review.
This month the Lab was working on rolling out AISv3. Problems were biting people as the transition was being made. Problems ranged from render fails to not being able rez from inventory.
「Hey Ho, Let’s Go」 – Taken in March 2015
March viewers were;
Word in March was that a viewer change to improve teleporting and crossing into another region was coming. Also that soon viewers will not install on Windows XP 32 or 64 bit machines. Continue reading
This is the second of may be twelve articles on what was happening this past year, 2015.
The RC server channels got an update to fix a teleport problem SL Go users were having.
Maison de L’amitié
Viewer-wise we were being told it would be some time before we saw Webkit abandoned and a move to Chromium Embedded Framework. Well, it is December, almost a year later, and we are seeing the change in RC Second Life Valhalla Viewer version 4.0.0.308641. So, it was some time…
The first week of Feb the main viewer was version 3.7.25-299021. The RC viewers were:
In February we were noticing a slowing of updates, server and viewer, but improved communication between the Lab and users. We were also noticing slower rendering and more items not rendering.
In mid Feb we saw an RC of Login Viewer version 3.7.25.298971 release. The Lab was A-B testing login screens.
The new versions of the viewers compiled with VS2013 will be driving Windows XP users to other viewers. The Discussion on dropping support for XP had yet to heat up.
More work on and testing of Group Chat was in progress. HUD’s were detaching after teleport. Oz Linden spoke about how bad an idea cache clearing is. See: YouTube Oz on Cache Clearing @ 1:01:20.
Render Muting was in QA. We know it now as Avatar Complexity Information, which as of December was still in the RC viewer stage.
Week 6 saw the conclusion of the 2015 planning meeting. We heard nothing about what was decided. However, excitement within the Lab was said to be high. We already saw the Lab’s post on recent improvements to Second Life; Hover Height, Notifications, Mesh Import, VMM, Graphics Settings Presets, and developer tools.
Gaia Clary was asking for feedback on AvaStar.
The No Link> error started showing up.
Astrid Kaufmat was writing about Fitted Mesh not fitting and the need for a new avatar. At the time I thought there was little chance of a new avatar. But, Project Bento (Dec 2015) has proven me wrong.
A Freeze Frame bug started causing problems. Freeze Frame is a feature in the Snapshot panel. Closing the panel with Freeze enabled froze your world. The only escape was a relog.
This was the month OSGrid came back online after L O N G time offline. Later in the month more assets were recovered.
Net Neutrality and Chinese hacking was all up in the news. See: Net Neutrality Explained
Road to VR was on about social VR. Lots of people in the SL community, including me, were blogging about VR.
A handy work-around for tweaking a region’s Windlight settings was revealed by Honour McMillan. See: Changing Windlight & HDR. Designing Worlds did a series on photography with Strawberry Singh, Honour McMillan and Wildstar Beaumont. See: Second Life Photography Tips.
MayaStar was released. The Maya side of Blender’s AvaStar tool.
Shug Maitland was blogging her wondering whether SL1 could compete with SL2 (Sansar). Later in the month Oz Linden was speaking on the same point. See: Second Life Continuing … for real…
Blender released a set of free 3D brushes. See: Blender 3D Brushes – Free.
Avatar render cost continued to be a big topic in the SL Blogosphere. Avatar Render Cost 2015-07
This month we started to hear more about Windows 10.
The gamer’s blog MASSIVELY closed. The employees behind it came back with Massively Overpowered a few weeks later.