The next meeting of the Local Government Study Group will be this Sunday, the 15th of April 2007, at 12.30PM SLT at the Sunbelt Software Auditorium. This will be part II of the discussion on the benefits of local governance. Note that this will not be a meeting to discuss […]
This was my April Fool’s Day article for 2007, which even gathered a few comments 🙂 Sorry to disappoint you, guys, but no, Microsoft is not running for the Metaverse — not yet 🙂 — Gwyn The recent announcement of Microsoft Metaverse, due to be launched in July 2007, after […]
AN ESSAY BY EXTROPIA DaSILVA. Extropia’s back with more delightful reading — Gwyn It is a fair bet that any company releasing a 3D social space to be inhabited by customisable avatars, who shop for virtual furniture with which to furnish their similarly virtual houses is going to find itself […]
Imagine that you would have an awesome technology that allowed you to create an universe you have just pictured in your mind, to the extent of detail you wish, and that you could get realistic characters walking around your universe, so perfect in its minutiae that their behaviour and looks […]
UgoTrade is yet another community of meta-thinkers about online communities and online business. From their site: “Ugonet.org is a free video/photo sharing site and social network for off the grid folks, social entrepreneurs, digital pioneers, traveler activists, anthropologists (pseudo or not), media makers – photographers, film makers, artists, and musicians […]
Thanks to the fantastic people at Info Island, sponsored by the The American Library Association (ALA), namely Rain Noonan — who does opera singing iRL as well — Moon Adamant’s old project, the Royal Opera House of Lisbon (a building opened to the public in April 1755 and destroyed in […]
The quest for the ultimate “SL Killer” continues. I made a few comments on yet another “ultimate virtual world” on SLOG, but the reality is, there are more, and more, and more… and every week there is a new one popping up next door 🙂 As part of my curiousity […]
There was quite a lot of waiting on Gravatar 2.0, but it’s finally out! It features a cool cropping tool that will allow you to upload an image of any size and don’t worry much about the proper format; it’ll resize it to whatever you fancy. Gravatars, like OpenID, are […]
Sorry for the brief interruption. WordPress 2.1 is out and it seems to have a better way to deal with the huge amount of spam I’m receiving at this moment, so I’m trying to do an upgrade. My apologies if the site is unresponsive for a while. [UPDATE 2007-02-04 18:48 […]
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!
Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life from PhysOrg.com Sweden is to become the first country to establish diplomatic representation in the virtual reality world of Second Life, officials said. […]
I came by chance across this interesting item on SL Exchange: AvPainter – SL Clothes Design and Preview Tool by Pootle Trollop. I don’t have Windows, so I haven’t tried it out, but the author claims it’s possible to upload a .tga file for your clothing and apply it visually […]
The Second Life client (viewer) was now open sourced and the code is available for free download 🙂