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17 Sep
Edward Castronova is believed to be the world’s leading researcher on virtual world economies. Recently, in a post on Terra Nova, the ultimate blog offering news and opinions regarding the social, economic, legal, psychological, and political aspects of these worlds, Castronova, reporting on the recent security breach in SL, asked himself the question: “Is 3D [...]
Posted in Homepage, SL Society by: Gwyneth Llewelyn
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17 Sep
Societies and communities have their own “backgrounds”. Although Second Life® does not have equivalent concepts to “skills”, “levels” or “experience”, commonly found on massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs), there is a single difference between a brand new resident and an older one: you’ll be familiar with the complexity of relationships inside Second Life, and, most [...]
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17 Sep
I don’t know if this is the first time ever if Second Life gets listed as a “country” in a website, but this is deliberate. Arin & Susan have arranged to have their feature movie to be premiered in Second Life… provided that there is enough interest for that. As an indie production, the team [...]
Posted in SL Psychology by: Gwyneth Llewelyn
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10 Sep
Talking with Rubaiyat Shatner yesterday, he pointed me out to a very interesting article blogged by Hamlet Au, referring to a research paper announced on Terra Nova posted by Nick Yee. On that paper, using some statistical analysis, the researches were able to prove that in Second Life, avatars behave like human beings when keeping [...]
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10 Sep
With (part) of the Second Life forums closing down, some of the few hundred regular readers of the forums were very worried that Linden Lab was somehow limiting their “freedom of expression”.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Most of SL’s residents live in free countries with freedom of expression being one of their constitutional [...]
Posted in Animations, Snippets by: Gwyneth Llewelyn
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04 Sep
Thanks to moo Money, I was pointed to this amazing piece of software called Crazy Talk 4, which is able to do all sorts of very creative lipsynching, very easily, using just a few pictures uploaded from Second Life (or… well… basically anything, really!).
Sadly, this is the sort of company that still believes that the [...]
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02 Sep
After finishing a 2-month-long marathon to make a “proof of concept” machinima using Second Life for a customer, I just saw this post on the Official Linden Blog. Yes, for four days you’ll be able to get a valid license key of Poser 5 in your name.
Although Content Paradise is famous for doing [...]
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02 Sep
Well… here it is. My blog gets a new look, and more important than that, it gets a brand new engine running in the background.
Two years ago, when I started writing these articles, I had to pick a weblogging engine. I’ve evaluated a few, and almost all were very limited, primitive, and rather inflexible — [...]