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The Archives
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03.12.08SL in 3D: 2 Cool!A blogger who writes about the "counter rhetoric, objections, debunkery and stupid shit on many things Second Life" brings to our attention the development of 3D glasses for SL. Linden Labs has deemed the hardware, created by computer specialist at the University of Michigan, so useful that it may build the functionality into the SL viewer. The goggles are traditional bicolor stereovision glasses. Read the original report at the Detroit Free Press. Starting to feel like the year of the gadget rather than the year of the virtual world.
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11.19.07Windlight MachimaNice video posted here that shows the power of Windlight: Windlight video.
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11.19.07Second Life as it Should Be: WindlightI've gone photo happy in SL since downloading the candidate Windlight viewer. One word: Wow. Other patforms have wonderful rendering and graphics, so it's not that it should be so astonishing. But what's amazing is first what a difference clouds, shadows, water and various ways of rendering them makes, and also how much it accentuates the builds of residents. This is what Second Life SHOULD look like and it's a welcome, exciting, and in some ways world-changing improvement (it's soooo much easier to demo Second Life to prospective clients without needing to explain why the graphics seem so crude!) Good job Linden and from ...
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11.11.07CSI New York Viewer: Search Terms about OnRez ViewerThe OnRez viewer launched by The Electric Sheep company to coincide with the CSI New York hype-fest (and its deflating in world build) was met with scorn and criticism including oh-so-gentle assessments by yours truly. In follow up to all of that, a few interesting items have shown up in the search terms that people use and then find my little home here on the Web: "third-party second life viewer change" "CSI viewer remove" "OnRez viewer change" and my all time favourite: "electric sheep company remove hud" Are we all happy with the AOL-ification of Second Life yet?
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10.24.07CSI New York in Second Life: Initial Photos, OnRez ViewerThe CSI New York episode tonight is expected to send 500,000+ intrigued viewers into Second Life. This coincides with the launch of the new On Rez viewer. Electric Sheep Company prez commented at the recent Virtual World's Conference advocated for the "AOL-ization" of Second Life. Well, that's what the new sim and viewer feel like. For a 'newbie' the viewer felt a bit more intuitive, cleaner, and had a nice "Web" feel to it. For someone used to a viewer focused on building and creating (the new viewer HIDES the build and create buttons!) I won't be switching anytime soon! One feature ...
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10.11.07Electric Sheep, SL Viewer and CSIThe new Electric Sheep viewer (in spite of its embedded commercial engine with its link to the OnRez shopping suite) and its launch in conjunction with an interactive episode of CSI on CBS might tip some of the Second Life press back in a different direction, while giving Linden a kick in the butt to have its act together in time for a bunch of curious newbies. The official release from Electric Sheep on its new viewer. The release highlights viewer features: Key OnRez features: - Redesigned interface to improve the user’s experience - Built-in search, shopping, and virtual currency purchasing services from the OnRez ...
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10.10.07AOL Version of Second LifeElectric Sheep are set to launch a new Second Life viewer at the Virtual World's conference in San Jose with the expressed intent of creating a more "AOL-type" experience. I have mixed feelings about the viewer but will reserve judgement until I see a full working version. First, I tend to agree with New World Notes that with users having access to different viewers that their experiences of SL might "split" just as those who adapted voice "split" from those who refuse to plug in a microphone (I am one of the latter by the way). Having said that, the current viewer ...
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