I have no idea of who among you voted for my blog on the “Top virtual worlds blogs” list for the Daily Reviewer (I didn’t even know that existed at all!) but I would like to thank you a lot for your vote!
When the Metaverse Roadmap was released last year, people were excited. For the first time in history, several different technologies were planned […]
Extropia DaSilva is back with another one of her fantastic essays. Enjoy! — Gwyn In part one of this essay, we examined […]
I feel in my bones that 2005 will be a turning point for Second Life®, at least for myself, since I’m pretty […]
Linden Lab introduces the “First Look” series of viewers as an “unstable branch” of the Second Life viewer. This allows developers to fully exploit new technological advances without fear of “breaking” the “normal” viewer. The result? In a month, we got a completely new rendering pipeline, giving us back the performance lost since the olden days of the 1.4 viewer, by moving the rendering into OpenGL calls done on the graphic card’s hardware. A nice side-effect is that the “shiny” feature now does mirroring, a feat that was deemed impossible a few years ago!
