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"Last week, Tansee joined the Designing Worlds’ show to tell us all about the launch of the new Second Life Linden Endowment for the Arts (SLEA). This week, for our archive show, we look back to Tansee’s particle installation at the old Linden Endowment for the Arts." Read more on the blog.
"NEW Update for the official Second Life viewer. You can now take a 360-degree snapshot of a location in Second Life. Let's try it! ^^ and a freebie just because we like it" Click to watch the video on YouTube.
"Enjoyed reading this long UK Guardian feature on Second Life's 20th anniversary by Simon Parkin, who also does excellent reporting on gaming culture for The New Yorker." Read more on the blog.
"Tonight at 8pm on the Discovery Channel (check your local listings!), there's a chance for Second Life users to cheer on a hometown champion: Episode 6, third fight of the night, it's Sharko (woot woot!) versus Slap Box (boo! hiss!) on the popular Battlebots reality TV show. " Read more on the blog.
"Here's a fun short survey for SL users for a study on virtual cultures during the COVID-19 pandemic. (One of the questions above.) The study is led by my pal Tom Boellstorff of UC Irvine, who's easily among the most preeminent academics with a focus on virtual worlds." Read more on the blog.
"In case you missed it over the holidays, the New York Times' story on the use of contemporary art displayed in major opera houses casually mentions that "the Chinese-born multimedia artist Cao Fei is showing a female avatar — a dystopian, pale-white head so imposing that signs have been put up all over the [Vienna] opera house to alert spectators to its presence." That avatar is actually China Tracy from Second Life -- she still has an active account in SL, look her up! -- who's been showing up in Cao Fei's art projects since 2007" Read more on the blog.
"/SecondLife, the largest SL-related subreddit, recently grew past 10,000 subscribers." Read more on the blog.
"At long last, physically based rendering (i.e. PBR, i.e. reflective surfaces and such) are officially part of Second Life, integrated into the latest update to the official viewer. To see the PBR effect in all its glory first-hand, click here to teleport to the Rumpus sandbox regions." Read more on the blog
"I've been wanting to make this announcement for months, and now I finally can..." Read more on the blog.
"Excited to start promoting my book, coming out this June on Second Life's 20th anniversary!" Read more on the blog.
"Linden Lab only recently announced its Puppetry Project, enabling real time control of Second Life avatars through webcams and other movement tracking devices. But unsurprisingly, while the project is very much in Alpha, hardcore SLers are already unpacking and setting it up." Read more on the blog.
"I just wrote about how Second Life was inspired by both the Metaverse of Snow Crash and Burning Man of orgiastic arts festival fame, and the SL20B exhibit has a cool installation that demonstrates both: A giant butterfly and flower created in Second Life - that was then exported as a design and built in real life at Burning Man!" Read more on the blog.
"Now that the first wave of Premium+ subscribers are getting to try out the private Alpha version of the upcoming Second Life iOS/Android app (and didn't have to sign an NDA to do so), I'm excited to share one of the first-ever published hands-on looks, courtesy longtime SLer TavishBrock Resident, who helps manage the Rosehaven Estates." Read more on the blog
"Caltech is among the very best universities in the world, famous for being the home of Richard Feynman and other science legends. (And perhaps even more famously, for being the setting for Big Bang.) Now it's helping drive a rebirth in educational uses for virtual worlds with Virtech:" Read more on the blog.
"I wrote out a definition of the Metaverse recently taken directly from Snow Crash citations -- my futile attempt to address the slew of "No one knows what the Metaverse is or when it will exist!" media coverage." Read more on the blog.
"The journey of NatureCon has been a huge adventure for everyone from the beginning on. First, it was just a random morning-coffee-talk between Soul and me about tech conferences and natural spaces within Second Life. But within less than an hour, these two topics have been combined to brainstorm an event idea: NatureCon was born." Read more on the blog.
"Hang on to your hairnets everyone, Second Life is fully in the Cloud! On Tuesday, the lab posted an announcement on their blog saying that it is mission accomplished apart from a handful of issues. We're off their old hardware and all located in one big fluffy cloud on the Amazon Web Servers." Read more on the blog.
"Back in May, we began work on a modern and up to date version of a 1.23 style viewer. Our aim is to offer the user all of the latest tech you expect to find in an SL viewer, but with a lighter footprint and with laptop computers as a focus." Read more on the blog.
"Genesis Viewer is pleased to announce that we are the first TPV to have this feature fully implemented from our Nightly Build, 689 onwards." Read more on the blog.
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