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The Archives
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10.14.09Should Second Life Get Socks?OK, this is a call out really to all you coders and assorted geeks who can help explain this to me. Here's the issue: companies often don't allow access to Second Life, or aren't convinced that it's a good idea, because of the number of ports that need to be opened in order to access the virtual environment. Contrary perhaps to popular belief, it's not usually Second Life content that's the issue but rather the security fears raised from opening up internal systems to the outside world. But Linden Labs seems to be trying to tackle this issue by 'renting a coder' ...
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09.30.09Open Source Web-based Viewer Launched: 3Di Puts OpenSim in the Browser3Di's Web-based viewer used for on-line commerce 3Di of Japan has released the source code for its browser-based viewer, accelerating the possibility that the ability to access openSim virtual worlds through the browser will become increasingly stable and effective. According to the company press release: 3Di, Inc., which develops and offers 3D Internet solutions (Head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Satoshi Koike; hereinafter referred to as 3Di) has today launched an open source project, named 3Di Viewer "Rei", for viewing and interacting with OpenSim-based(*1) 3D virtual worlds in web browsers. With this public release of open source technology, 3Di hopes to assist industry adoption ...
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08.18.09Second Life 2.0: Video of Tom Hale Demo of New ViewerTom Hale gave a tour of the new viewer for Second Life, to be launched in the coming months, although finished his chat with the footnote (his speech was highly footnoted) that it has changed since the screen shot and will be different than he presented. But still, it gives us a pretty good sense of the design methodology, which includes: - A browser-type navigation bar with "back" functions so that you can retrace your steps in world, and locations are treated like URLs in a nav bar (SLURLs), including bookmarks etc. - A right hand panel which opens and closes like a ...
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08.17.09Video: Tom Hale’s Presentation at SLCCBy way of a video stream captured by MetaWorld 2 (go there to see a larger version of the video....skip to the last part if you want to see the mesh import and HTML-on-a-prim demos). Video after the jump to avoid it auto-playing on you: Continue Reading...
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06.12.09New Second Life 2.0 Viewer Not Yet in ViewUpdate: Linden Lab has now confirmed through their own blog that the screen shots posted by Tateru will be VERY different from the actual viewer. "What we ship later this year will be very different from what appeared in that post. We'll share a sneak peek of the "real" Viewer 2009 later in the year, with plenty of time to receive and incorporate feedback before the final iteration ships." Tateru has posted screen shots of the "Second Life Web 2.0" viewer, which has kicked off a flurry of comments both on Massively and elsewhere. Tateru DOES call it an ...
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12.02.08How Many Lindens Will It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?Linden Lab today announced the appointment of Howard Look as Senior Vice President of Customer Applications and in so doing, Mark Kingdon is upping the ante further with his promise to focus on the "consumer experience" noting as he did recently that "80% of our investment and focus is on our core platform and our core consumer user. We are building enterprise and we are improving the consumer experience." Now, I have no idea what Howard was really doing over at Pixar, or Tivo...the Lab says he held 'executive positions' but then again I've watched movies, and at the end there's ...
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10.16.08New Second Life Viewer Let’s You Touch PrimsTateru at Massively has flagged the availability of a new viewer and includes the list of fixes, changes, improvement and other miscellany - and the list is almost mind-boggling in its length. Aside from lots of incremental usablity fixes (and I'm all for incremental as long as they're, um, incrementing in the right direction) there are a few things that I think are highlight changes with the new viewer: Support for Mono It's finally here. Took time to arrive but you can finally compile or recompile scripts using the Mono engine. . Originally promised for the first quarter of the year, Mono is ...
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09.01.08Second Life and the User Interface: Toward Strategic ValueThe Second Life viewer could be a source of deep strategic value for Linden Lab, but like many of their tentative and opaque attempts at open source, community management and involvement, and Grid improvements it's instead a floundering off-shoot suffering from a lack of vision and direction. Now, I come at this from a bias: I've spent more time thinking about the User Interface for Second Life and OpenSim than most people - and I've long held the opinion that although there's friction created through the user interface there are far more challenging things that cause attrition in the first hour ...
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08.22.08Render Shadows in Second Life: Compiled ViewerSome time ago Torley posted breathlessly about the ability to render shadows in Second Life, which fed a broad discussion about the computing power needed to do this and whether its inclusion in the SL viewer would cut off those whose machines couldn't handle it. Regardless, I could never find a compiled viewer - I found the instructions for how to compile one but that's beyond my pay grade. But I stumbled across a blog with some pretty sharp looking photos showing rendered shadows, and a link to a compiled viewer. Continue Reading...
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08.08.08Second Life Prepping for New IM and Communication ToolsTateru at Massively reports that Second Life may be headed for simpler, slimmer and more useful chat application based on a recent trademark application for a service called "SLin": IC 038. US 100 101 104. G & S: Electronic and digital transmission of voice, data, images, signals, and messages; e-mail and instant messaging services; communications by computer terminals; electronic exchange of voice, data, and graphics accessible via computer, mobile, wireless, and telecommunication networks; voice over IP (VoIP) services; video and audio conferencing services conducted via the Internet, telephone, and mobile devices According to Tateru: Considering that there doesn't seem to be any other ...
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