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Second Life The biggest upgrade to Second Life since 2003 occurred yesterday… the release of the Viewer 2 beta. I would highly recommend checking it out; it can be installed alongside the main Second Life viewer, v1.23. There hasn’t been a total user interface overhaul since v1.2 (under a separate numbering system) was released in [...] This is the first major overhaul to the Second Life viewer since last 2003. Yes, IE6 is older, but there have been two new version of IE since then! The video speaks volumes: Get it here: Echo Omega: One of the Original Second Life Marketing Campaigns, circa 2004. It has been almost a year since I wrote a post asking the question, What’s With the Second Life Death Watch? Recently in the comments, I was asked to provide on update. With the release of Second Life’s 2009 Economy Wrap Up, now [...] Here is Sunday’s keynote from SLCC by Tom Hale, outlining a bunch of new features coming to Second Life. Some cool new stuff: new viewer with simplified user interface that actually works like most other applications, closer integration with the web site (OpenSim is far ahead on this with their Elgg integration), and mesh import, [...] Wharton Computing and the Philadelphia Future Salon are proud to present an event, in conjunction with the Wharton Learning Lab’s Evolution of Learning Symposium: Virtual Worlds in Academia: Beyond the Hyperbole. The panel is free for anyone to attend, and we encourage people attending the symposium in the morning to join us after lunch. A [...] Echo Omega: One of the Original Second Life Marketing Campaigns, circa 2004. I’m some what guilty here: I have been focusing a lot more on other technologies lately, such as the OpenSim and realXtend platforms. That doesn’t mean that Second Life is anywhere close to dead. Many media outlets (I’m looking at you, hacks at [...] One of the best parties of the year! Registration for the 2009 Second Life Community Convention is now open. You can register here. I’ve got to say, I’m impressed – prices are down significantly, which will hopefully make it easier for people to come in this economy. From the SLCC web site: If you want to [...]
Second Life The virtual world Second Life has broken 80,000 simultaneous avatars logged in. For someone who remembers when a concurrency of 50 was special, and a major event was held to try to break 5,000, this is impressive. What is most impressive about it is that it is being taken for granted these days. I [...] One of the best parties of the year! The SLCC team has put up an update about the 2009 convention. The key points: It will be on the west coast this year. More information is available here! I hope to see you there! Source Graphic to Convert to SL Texture I finally had some free time for the first time in years. I’ve done some major upgrades to some of my products – trivia got a major overhaul, and now, I’ve done a much needed upgrade to the animated GIF to SL texture conversion tool. It now handles GIF [...] |
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