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The Archives
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11.30.09SLE Applications – What’s Needed?So, I ran a little User Voice test at the bottom of a blog post a few weeks back asking you to contribute ideas and to vote on applications that would make sense if packaged up with Second Life Enterprise. It was a fun little exercise although not exactly a massive wave of responses. A few probable reasons: having to leave this blog for another site is too painful. You're working on a killer app for SLE and don't want to let us in on the secret. Or, most probably of all - who cares anyways. :) But I am interested ...
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04.10.09OpenSim and Rezzing Textures: 200% Increase in Load SpeedsA code patch to OpenSim by one of our developers, Tom Grimshaw, has contributed to a 200-300% increase in texture loading efficiency and speed. The patch was developed in an attempt to address the issue of 'grey textures', textures that get 'stuck' and never seem to appear, and textures in the distance appearing before those closest to your avatar. As Tom notes, the result in initial tests includes: - Increased packet efficiency greatly, less wasted bandwidth - Shaken the texture clog issue where textures stopped being delivered - Implemented texture priorities properly, nearer objects load first - Reduced memory usage per connected client VERY ...
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04.01.08See the Future: Photosynth Tech Demo Now LiveMicrosoft's Photosynth wowed them at TED, and now the tech demo is live, letting you play with the same environments (and a few extras) they showed then. Words fail me. It really is an astonishing, brilliant and enriching experience. Forget Papervision for now. Forget Google Virtual Earth. This is a taste of the future. You can almost imagine being able to fly through the environment with an avatar. To drill down through the photos to see who took them. To link them to geotags. To layer a semantic Web on top. For all the talk of the metaverse roadmap, augmented reality, and ...
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