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 […]
Yearly Archives: 2006
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
And here comes the long awaited part II of this fantastic essay of Extropia DaSilva. Enjoy! – Gwyn An essay by Extropia DaSilva and her Primary. ABSTRACT: Technology trends suggest our definitons of ‘self’ and ‘person’ will need to be re-examined in the future. Is this future best anticipated by […]
Again, I’m glad to present Extropia’s latest essay on Self, which raises some very interesting, and in some cases, disturbing questions. No matter how much we’re into the advances of cognitive research, artificial intelligence, and the advancement of the human species through bionic replacements, nearly everyone will be touched by […]
Crowdsourcing, a new buzzword introduced by Wired magazine‘s Jeff Howe and Mark Robinson, is a new trend popularised by several modern companies, mostly associated to software houses and Internet-related businesses, although allegedly Procter & Gamble use it as well. It could be described as empowering amateurs — companies delegating tasks […]
This fantastic essay by Extropia DaSilva is kindly reprinted here with her explicit permission. It makes for very good reading, and goes straight to answering the difficult question of what reality is. – Gwyn What is ‘real’ anyway? An essay by Extropia DaSilva. It’s probably the question that is put […]
Beyond Poser for doing SL animations, residents’ choices were limited to Vince Invincible/Vince Plunkett’s most excellent Avimator, a free and open source project targetted to make the whole animation process simple, intuitive, and compatible across all SL-supported platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux. A thread in the forums pointed me to the […]
Today, June 30th, Linden Lab will officially launch the Second Views programme, in a RL, face-to-face meeting with the following residents: Pham Neutra Oz Spade Nexus Nash Catherine Omega Salazar Jack Alliez Mysterio Kex Godel Stella Costello Reading the latest Robin blog entry, it seems much more like a mix […]
It should be mentioned somewhere that Second Life has reached 300,000 users as of today 🙂 Congratulations to all, Linden Lab and the whole bunch of Second Life residents that have faithfully registered in the past three years to make this platform and virtual world grow.
If you haven’t ever tried Second Life before, with the current ultra-simplified registration system, and a heavilly-packed event list for the next 5 days, this is one opportunity you shouldn’t be able to miss! Second Life – Third Birthday June 21 – June 25 Note: The schedule may indeed change […]