Second Life and Sansar in the News

2017/04/14 by Nalates Urriah

The Irish Times has an article by Marie Boran, Virtual reality is giving Second Life a second lease of life. (4/13) Marie was a participant in Second Life™ in 2010. In the first few words she reports the Trump-Swastikas at a Bernie Sanders meetup. That mention should clue people to the possibility of the reporting being shallow. I’ll try to push the Sansar news deeper and provide some perspective on Second Life..

The Blarneystone in Dublin, SL – 2017

Marie moves on to point out that while there is an ‘underbelly’ to SL, that is often reported on, there is also a surprising number of ‘ordinary’ folks in SL. The real world is pretty much that way… so…

Next Marie says her 2010 outfit and skin had expired… I went back and tried some of my 2008 outfits, well, we didn’t have “Outfits” in 2008. So, I had to find some stuff from then and make an outfit to see if things still worked. They did. I looked horrible. We can’t be sure what happened to Marie. I’ll take this as being another nail in ‘shallow’. But… Continue reading →

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NASA’s ISS Mission for Oculus

2017/03/19 by Nalates Urriah

For those with VR headsets a treat is coming. The video previews it. Get more details here: ‘Mission: ISS’ is an Impressively Detailed View of Life in Zero Gravity

This might be an excellent use of VR as there is no walking envolved…

Which platform are VR people using?

2017/02/02 by Nalates Urriah

Massively Overpowered has an article about information a company named Superdata provided on the gaming market and VR: Virtual Reality Helps Push Mobile Gaming To New Heights.

Winter Circus

I find it interesting that mobile VR games netted as much money as the movie industry netted from box offices. Mobile VR accounted for half the global market in digital games. I think that is rather impressive and shifts my thinking on where gaming and VR are going.

I suppose it is not that surprising. I plan to buy my next phone based on its VR abilities. I have to have a phone. My existing telecom contracts have expired. I can change carriers, renew or not a contract… I’m sort of a telecom free agent. But, buying a dedicated VR headset, like an Oculus, would be a total splurge and unlikely. An upgrade for the desktop I built in 2016 is more likely. i5 to i7 or 1060 to 1080 or even a 2080 (NVIDIA will likely have the 20 series out in early 2017).

With information coming out about how VR is going mobile way more than I ever expected, I am almost certain to consider Samsung’s coming (end of March, may be April) S8 for my VR. Especially since it is Samsung that is out selling other VR mobile makers. (4.5 million out of 6.4 million sold in 2016 – 69.2% market share.)

Where we are with VR

2017/02/01 by Nalates Urriah

We are seeing articles in various places lamenting how slowly VR is being adopted. It remains expensive and requires a powerful computer. That problem is being worked on.

A time of talks with the girls ….

Intel is developing what they call Project Alloy. It is written about in the article: How Silicon Valley Is Trying to Solve Virtual Reality’s Biggest Problems.

New VR Headset US$79

2016/10/05 by Nalates Urriah

Google is releasing a $79 headset named Daydream. Road to VR has an article on the headset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLLAA4ENIP4

The headset uses a phone, not included. But, the phone has to be Daydream Certified. I’m not sure exactly what that means and I didn’t dee anyone explaining it. The most they say in the way of an explanation is: the Daydream headset works exclusively with Android’s integrated VR support. Continue reading →

Blender 360 VR

2016/10/05 by Nalates Urriah

There is an interesting tutorial out for Blender 2.78 showing how to make a 360 VR image.

Infinite VR Corridor – Really!?!

2016/08/01 by Nalates Urriah

Road to VR has an article and video up on how to fake an infinitely long corridor in VR. Some people have found a way to give the impression of walking in a straight line while actually walking in a circle.

This is pretty awesome. But, it also shows that VR developers have realized there is a space problem for VR. What they have requires a room bigger than 7m (20ft) x 5m (15ft). This is typical ‘small’ master bedroom size in America. Continue reading →

Second Life VR – How To

2016/07/31 by Nalates Urriah

AUSTIN TATE has written an article on how to use VorpX with Second Life and OpenSim to get a VR view. See: Second Life and OpenSim in VR using VorpX.

Wonderful Life

Sounds fun and reasonable, US$40.

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