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Second Life News for June 2025

2025/07/10 by Nalates Urriah

I thought I would try some AI scanning to gather SL news on a monthly basis. This is what I found for June.

SL Mobile: Grumpity and Philip point out that work continues on the rendering capability of mobile devices. There has been a 10x increase in people signing up and onboarding via mobile and Project Zero. Nice.

Homes: A new neighborhood, Ridgewood Enclave, is planned for Premium+ members. The availability of commercial regions tied to the new homes is mentioned. Also, some refurbishing of existing home themes is planned. Some PBR updates to existing themes is mentioned.

Gacha: OK, most of us know Gatcha is back. Some of use think that is a good thing. I have my doubts.

Linden Lab pours MILLIONS into Second Life

2017/08/29 by Nalates Urriah

Ebbe Linden has posted in the SL Forum. The post is titled Celebrating 14 Years of SL with Investments in Its Future. In it, he says they have budgeted US$ Millions for the coming year, which is awesome.

He tells us about some of the coming changes to Second Life. Some we know about, others are new news.

One change is moving SL to the cloud. I have heard no details. So, exactly what this means is currently speculation. My speculation is this should significantly drop the cost of running the system. I imagine an empty region could be spun down and then only spun up as needed. Would this reduce land cost? It might.

Second Life in the News 2016 Week 18

2016/05/04 by Nalates Urriah

Motherboard’s Why SL is still a Thing

(Link) Emanuel Maiberg, author, thinks Second Life is a shabby World of Warcraft… Really!?!

I have to wonder what part of SL Emanuel has been looking at…

The article points out several good reasons for SL having survived. Fair enough overall.

Quote: “Indeed, the most surprising thing about Second Life is not that it’s still a thing, but that 13 years after its inception, it is still way ahead of its time.”

Second Life in the NEWS 2016-W17#2

2016/04/28 by Nalates Urriah

Seems there are a bunch of articles referring to Second Life™ and Project Sansar this week. The Australian in their LIFE section has an article titled Welcome to the virtual reality social revolution. Seems a fair enough view of SL and the image used is recent. As I write this there are only a couple … Read more

Second Life in the News 2016-W17

2016/04/28 by Nalates Urriah

Ciaran has a review of an article about Second Life that appears in the French newspaper Le Monde: Absurd, creative and debauched: ten years later, “Second Life” is still alive. Ciaran has written a nice review of the article. So, I’ll skip adding my thoughts as I’m way short on free time today.

ODD: Intel Developers to use Second Life?

2016/04/13 by Nalates Urriah

In my reading I came across this article on the Intel Developer site: Unity Tip: Using Second Life As A 3D Modeling Package. Quoting: You may need to use 3D modeling to create objects for your project but do not have the technical experience yet to do so, or find that your package of choice … Read more