We’re excited to announce that Second Life and Film Threat are partnering for the world premiere of WAARHEID, the sequel to STÖMOL, an award-winning feature-length sci-fi movie shot entirely in Second Life by machinima creator Huckleberry Hax! Watch it live with your fellow residents at a special virtual cinema screening event exclusively at the Film Threat venue in Second Life!

Huckleberry Hax has been a resident of Second Life since 2007. He has also written a number of novels set in Second Life. WAARHEID stars Caitlin Tobias returning to reprise the role of the ill-fated truth hunter from the previous film and AvaJean Westland as Totuus. It also features Ylva, Strawberry Singh, Boudicca Amat, Lydia Lindemann, Mich Michabo, and Huckleberry Hax himself.

Learn more about this special screening event and watch some of the cast on Lab Gab as they give you a peek behind the scenes and also a walk through the WAARHEID art exhibition opening soon. You can also watch the trailer for this movie on Huckleberry Hax's YouTube channel!

Add the following dates and timings for the upcoming events to your calendar:

Friday, December 9th at 10am PT - Watch the cast of WAARHEID on Lab Gab on the Second Life YouTube channel!

Thursday, December 15th at 1:30pm PT - Come to the Virtual Cinema Screening Event for WAARHEAD at the Film Threat venue in Second Life!

WAARHEID Virtual Cinema Screening Event

Watch WAARHEID, a feature-length sci-fi thriller completely shot in Second Life, during this special virtual cinema screening event at the Film Threat venue in Second Life. Watch together with the cast and crew of the film and along with other members of the SL community on Thursday, December 15th at 1:30pm PT!

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Save the date! The 18th annual Second Life birthday celebration (SL18B) will be held from June 17th to July 6th. Get ready for fun-filled weeks of live music, performances, shopping, and amazing community exhibits!

During the SL18B celebrations there will be a special edition of “Lab Gab” featuring several executives from the Linden Lab leadership team. Now is your chance to share your thoughts and ask questions directly to the leadership team! 

Click over to the submission form and submit your questions now. You have until Tuesday, June 15th to do so.

As always, you can watch all episodes of Lab Gab, including this one when it airs, on the Second Life YouTube channel in the Lab Gab Playlist: second.life/labgab

Keep an eye on this blog and the Second Life public calendar for all the dates and information about SL18B coming soon! We hope to see you at the celebrations!

We’ve got an all-new action-packed episode of “Lab Gab” that you won’t want to miss! Tune in to get a first look at our latest developer video that showcases the newest updates to the Private Alpha release of the Second Life Mobile App. There’s been a ton of progress since our last update – and Senior VP of Product & Engineering Grumpity Linden is here to break down what’s here now and coming next for our Mobile future.

You’ll also hear from Director of Engineering Signal Linden and Product Manager Kyle Linden as they discuss and show off new and exciting Second Life innovations and features like PBR terrain and mirrors. 

Finally, our Manager of Support Operations Keira Linden joins us to share some news about forthcoming policy updates that will help make our virtual world safer and stronger for everyone - and did we mention that there’s also news about our upcoming SL21B celebration?

Here are links to some of the topics we’ve covered in this episode:

• Second Life Mobile App - Developer Update Video (April 2024)
• Mobile Update: April 2024 - new builds, avatar updates!
• Premium Plus - Second Life Mobile Private Alpha Sign-Up
• Feedback Portal 
• Mirrors, PBR Terrain, and 2K textures
• Materials Featurettes Viewer 
• Accessing Aditi (the beta grid) 
• Second Life’s 21st Birthday (SL21B) Updates
• Follow our Featured News Blog for upcoming Policy Updates

To learn more, be sure to watch Lab Gab on the Second Life YouTube Channel!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist.

Want to see just the mobile updates? Check out our latest Second Life Mobile Developer video:

NatureCon 2022 is a two-week virtual conference seeking to unite and inspire collaboration between Bellisseria and Mainland organizations under the shared goal of promoting exploration across the grid. This celebration of nature and connection will run from August 18th to the 31st. 

There will be many activities and events happening these two weeks. Pick up a collectible event booklet in the Info Pavilion close to the landing spot which will include a map and highlights about the event. As you walk around the regions, look for an art hunt with collectible paintings and a ladybug hunt with themed camp items. Boats, horse rezzers from Teegle, and submarine rezzers are just some of the things available to ride around the event.

Activities start today with a live DJ event from 12pm PT, and then at 4pm PT an opening speech from the organizers of the event, Yukiko Yeshto and Soull Starlight.

Along with numerous contributors, our very own Moles have donated their time and talent to create Bellisseria landmarks at this event, including a lighthouse and Mermaid grotto! In tomorrow’s upcoming Lab Gab, we will hear the story of how the Moles got involved.

On Friday August 19th at 2pm PT, you can watch Lab Gab live at NatureCon with host Strawberry Linden interviewing many of the organizers and collaborators for this event, including Yukiko Yeshto, Soull Starlight, Ayame Kintsugi-Moon, Georgina Rowley, Zoe Foodiboo, Becca Ordinary, Bryce Sun, Cranston Yordstorm, and Zen Swords-Galway.

Lab Gab will be streamed to the Second Life YouTube Channel, Facebook Page, LinkedIn Page, and Twitter.

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist.

See you at NatureCon!

NatureCon 2022

NatureCon 2022 is a two-week virtual conference seeking to unite and inspire collaboration between Bellisseria and Mainland organizations under the shared goal of promoting exploration across the grid. This celebration of nature and connection will run from August 18th to the 31st. For more information, visit: natureconsl.site

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Join our hosts Strawberry Linden and Boston Blaisdale as they explore some haunted destinations on Lab Gab today, Thursday, October 27th at 10am PT. 

There are over 100 spooky places listed in the haunted category on the Second Life Destination Guide where you can explore the supernatural and hunt for ghosts, ghouls, and other creepy things! Strawberry and Boston will be going to just a handful of those, explore along with them or watch them on the Second Life YouTube channel.

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist.

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she speaks with Elizabeth Tinsley, Zander Greene, and Da5id Abbot. They will be taking her on a tour of Fantasy Faire! Fantasy Faire features eighteen incredible regions of extraordinary beauty and magic in support of Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society's goal of a world without cancer. It’s open until May 10th. 

Tune in on Tuesday, May 5th at 11am PT/SLT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, Mixer, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

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“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. Join our host, Strawberry Linden on Thursday, October 15th at 11am PT/SLT as she speaks with Artemesia Sandgrain and Nova Conundrum of IndieCade Oasis.

For 15-plus years, IndieCade has been the premiere stand-alone gathering and showcase for indie games worldwide, this year they have expanded to an online environment! IndieCade Oasis 2020 is their online festival that will run Second Life from October 16th to 24th with the theme - Anywhere and Everywhere! 

Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

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Lab Gab is a talk show about the virtual world of Second Life. Join our host, Strawberry Linden on Friday, April 22nd at 9am PT as she speaks with Boston Blaisdale.

Boston is a popular YouTuber that has been creating informative Second Life Tutorials and fun shopping and fashion related videos for over a year. Subscribe to his YouTube Channel to see his work and tune in on Friday to learn more about him.

Lab Gab will be streamed to the Second Life YouTube Channel, Facebook Page, LinkedIn Page, and Twitter.

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist.

“Lab Gab” is a talk show about the virtual world of Second Life. Join our host, Strawberry Linden on Friday, October 8th at 1pm PT as she speaks with Brian Friedman and Jon Nakagawa.

Brian is a choreographer that has worked with many popular artists, such as Britney Spears, Cher, Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, and many more. He has also provided choreography for music videos, concerts, and television and film productions.

Jon is the owner of Paragon Dance Animations, a Hollywood-based production company founded by professionals in the movie industry. Paragon brings the talents of accomplished and high-profile dancers to life in virtual reality, by specializing in the production of dance animations for Second Life.

Recently Brian teamed up with Paragon and choreographed a dance number using a motion capture suit, check out behind-the-scenes footage on their Facebook Page.

Tune in on Friday, October 8th at 1pm PT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she speaks with the team from Relay for Life in Second Life: Stingray9798 Raymaker, Trager Alter, MamaP Beerbaum, and Nikki Mathieson! There may also be a surprise guest!

Tune in on Friday, June 5th at 12pm PT/SLT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, Mixer, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she explores SL17B! The show will start right at 11am PT/SLT with Patch Linden’s speech at the opening ceremony. After the speech, Strawberry will explore some of the wonderful exhibits and show you where you can pick up over 150 gifts! 

Some links for your reference:
SL17B Calendar of Events
SL17B on the Destination Guide 
SL17B Shop & Hop Guide 

Come and celebrate 17 years of Second Life with us!

Tune in on Friday, June 19th at 11am PT/SLT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, Mixer, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. Join our host, Strawberry Linden on Friday, October 9th at 11am PT/SLT as she speaks with Gentle Heron of Virtual Ability and Dr. Rhoda Olkin, who is one of the presenters at the upcoming International Disability Rights Affirmation Conference at Virtual Ability.

Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

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“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she speaks with the team that helped to bring the Peale in Baltimore into Second Life. The Peale, which is housed in the first purpose-built museum building in the United States, debuts later this week. Joining us on “Lab Gab” will be Nancy Proctor, the Director of the Peale in Baltimore, David London, the Peale’s Chief Experience Officer, and Eme Capalini from Virtual Ability.

Tune in on Friday, August 14th at 11am PT/SLT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist.

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. Join our host, Strawberry Linden on Friday, March 12th at 11am PT as she speaks with the founder and curator of The GBTH Project, Marina Munter (vivresavie).

The GBTH Project is a concept gallery and also part of the Community Gateway Program. Marina will tell us more about it, and then take us on a brief tour. 

Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope! 

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she speaks with Caitlin Tobias and Huckleberry Hax, creators of the upcoming feature-length SciFi thriller - STÖMOL - which is completely shot in Second Life!

Tune in on Friday, July 17th at 11am PT/SLT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. Join our host, Strawberry Linden on Friday, January 22nd at 11am PT as she speaks with the Second Life Endowment for the Arts (SLEA) Coordinator Tansee, and our very own VP of Product Operations, Patch Linden, along with our VP of Marketing, Brett Linden. 

Tansee will be giving us a brief description of SLEA and will also take us on a quick tour of some of the creative installations currently there. 

Tansee will also give us details about the Grand Opening of their First Annual Celebration of the Arts, happening on January 23rd and 24th!

Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

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“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she speaks with Rosie Helendale. Rosie is an informative vlogger who creates brilliant tutorials and shares the latest breaking news in Second Life. Rosie will also be taking Strawberry on a field trip. 

Tune in on Friday, July 10th at 11am PT/SLT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she speaks with Caledonia Skytower. Caledonia is a long time Resident, director of Seanchai Library in Second Life, and a theatre artist in the physical world, who brings much of her talent and creativity to our platform. She will also be giving Strawberry a tour of Seanchai Library and they will attend a literary event there together. 

Tune in on Friday, April 17th at 11am PT/SLT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, Mixer, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. Join us on Friday, October 30th at 11am PT/SLT as our hosts, Strawberry and Tara Linden explore some haunted destinations in Second Life. They will also be finding their way through an escape room, come and help them through it!

Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

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“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she speaks with Alesia (AlesiaPM) and Ron (RCArchitect), the team behind VRazeTheBar.com, which is in partnership with Gen Con, and bringing the largest and longest-running gaming convention into Second Life!

Tune in on Friday, July 24th at 11am PT/SLT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. Join our host, Strawberry Linden on Friday, March 5th at 11am PT as she speaks with Lindsley Allen and Jon Nakagawa.

Lindsley is a creative producer, director, choreographer, mentor, and dance educator. She is a founding member of Pussycat Dolls and the creator of Cherry Boom Boom. 

Jon is the owner of Paragon Dance Animations, a Hollywood-based production company founded by professionals in the movie industry. Paragon brings the talents of accomplished and high-profile dancers to life in virtual reality, by specializing in the production of dance animations for Second Life.

Recently Lindsley teamed up with Paragon and held a Second Life Director’s Contest, announcing the winner just this past weekend. Check out the winning video!

 

 

 

 

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Cherry Boom Boom has also choreographed a dance number using a motion capture suit, coming soon to Paragon Animations! See behind the scenes footage on their YouTube channel:

Tune in on Friday, March 5th at 11am PT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she speaks with SuperSuz, along with M2 Burner, both are regional contacts for BURN2. BURN2 is an annual festival of community, art, and fire that brings the culture and cool of Burning Man to Second Life. They will be discussing the history of BURN2 and taking her on a tour of the region before it’s open to the public for the weekend, from May 1st to May 3rd.

Tune in on Friday, May 1st at 11am PT/SLT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, Mixer, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

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Lab Gab is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she speaks with our VP of Engineering, Oz Linden, and VP of Product, Grumpity Linden. Grumpity and Oz will give us an update on AWS! Oz will also speak about his years at Linden Lab. He recently announced his retirement.

Do you have any questions for Oz and Grumpity that you’d like Strawberry to ask on your behalf? Fill out the Google Form and submit your question today, and it may be selected! (Please note the form has been turned off now, thank you for all the questions! Watch us today at 11am PT!)

Tune in on Friday, February 26th at 11am PT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

Lab Gab is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she speaks with the VP of Engineering, Oz Linden, and Lead QA Engineer, Mazidox Linden. Oz and Mazidox are on the uplift team, which is moving Second Life to the cloud. They will be discussing all aspects of uplift and giving us an update on it.      

Do you have any questions for the uplift team that you’d like Strawberry to ask them on your behalf? Fill out the Google Form and submit your question today, and it may be selected!

Tune in on Friday, November 6th at 10am PT/SLT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

“Lab Gab” is a live-streamed variety show that showcases events, destinations, and different talents across Second Life. 

Join our host, Strawberry Linden, as she speaks with Cilian McCullough, who runs The Dive Shop in Second Life, which is a platform for training scuba divers in the physical world. Cilian and his team have created scuba equipment, fully functional dive computers, and oxygen analyzers. They have been approved by PADI, the world's largest diver training organization, to use these simulations in Second Life to meet the practical application part of the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Watch as he gives Strawberry a one-on-one lesson in diving!

Tune in on Friday, August 21st at 10am PT/SLT. Watch us live on YouTube, Facebook, or Periscope!

For full episodes of Lab Gab, click over to the Lab Gab YouTube Playlist. 

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