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My friend actually just told me that they were using Second Life on VR using a VR build of Firestorm so it is actually still a thing.

Get inworld and explore, talk with the Residents. Go to educational sims and see them for yourself. Asking people to practically write your school project for you isn't really the best way to do it or get help. Good luck with the project

I was talking about drawing commissions since he mentioned he consider art as an income, I assumed that he's an artist

As Dave pointed out, with annual premium membership you'll practically be spending $1 a month (or 250L$/month) for a 1024m2 of land (it's 32x32m big) with even 10% bonus if you put your land tier into a group and make your land a group land. Renting from landlords is not a bad option too, you can get a decent small mainland parcel for about 250-300L$ a week, or a skydome / skybox for 0.75L$/prim a week (size varies), but you do get more privacy on a parcel that you rent yourself rather than one of stacked skydomes / skyboxes. And oh boy if you're a good artist you'll be making TONS of money doing furry art commissions lol, people are willing to pay a lot to get their avatar drawn, and considering $20 (assuming that's the average fee for a commission) is about 5000L$, you won't be having problems paying for land rents

That GPU is old but shouldn't get you that low on FPS, so is your CPU. Do you have a hard drive or an SSD? If you're on hard drive, it could be that your hard drive has gotten slow over the years and it makes things load slower (it can affect FPS too in some scenarios) Other factors could be other programs running on Windows that's slowing down your computer

If you've really bought a skydome object then pretty much what Lindal said, but in case you meant you've rented a skydome rental, they usually have a control panel (sometimes in the rental box) that allows you to change themes (the ground texture, sky texture). Some skydomes that you can buy also come with this kinda feature, so make sure you read the manual or product description

What viewer are you on? Have you tried using another viewer? There's also a possibility that your laptop decides to use your laptop cpu's integrated graphics instead of your GTX660M since SL might have not been detected as a game by your laptop, try right clicking on the executable of the viewer you're using and see if there's an option to run it with your GTX660M

You can be your avatar form on Facebook as a Page. A Page can pretty much do anything a normal Profile can anyway

I get on SL to live just like how I live in the physical world c= I realized the countless possibilities of SL and the reasons me and many other people get on SL for essentially make our (or at least my) existence on SL no different to the definition of living

A short tutorial on how to change your default camera preset in Second Life c= Found out about this years ago in a blog somewhere, and thought about sharing it with you guys because it HELPS a lot in increasing immersion or making your camera better in general if you don't want to keep using Second Life's default camera position I hope it's useful! Enjoy!

If you're on Firestorm you should go to your quick preferences button (it looks like the Firestorm logo) then uncheck "show color under cursor", if you're on other viewers you can look the same or similar setting in the preferences menu

You can't upload your own 3D models, textures, animations, sound, make your own scripts and have them be parts of a persistent shared online virtual world on GTA V. Many mesh heads and mesh bodies on SL are much more high-quality compared to GTA V's character models (hence they are laggier, but still, they are of higher quality) Of course GTA V is better in things like physical simulation and shooting mechanics, but those aren't what SL is about, and the performance on GTA V is good because it's one of the most optimized games out there and doesn't have user-created content in it. Most buildings on GTA V / Online is empty and doesn't have an interior model, while most buildings on SL are occupied and owned by people, with their furnitures and personal belongings in them I have over 500 hours in GTA V / GTA Online but as much as I like having fun with my friends playing GTA, it's no comparison to the depth of SL, what it represents and what it means for the users who use Second Life

Enable Advanced Lightings in your preferences menu, turn on Shadows and Water Reflections. SL is very capable of looking good if you have a good enough hardware. Also most places and stuff on SL are user-created, so if you see a place that "looks bad" as in having not-so-detailed-looking objects in them, it's because the owner of that place chose to have those objects there which they are entitled to because it's their place SL is technically not a game and SL is updated more frequently than most games, there have been tons of improvements made over the years And since you brought up number of users, if SL were to be compared with video games in that regard, it would consistently be on the top 10 most played games according to Steam chart with its average of 30-50k concurrent users

Whoops, my last post was posted before I finished typing the content somehow. In addition to the areas I mentioned in my previous post, I was about to mention the old teen grid (I think it's called Meiji) which is like a miniature, Sansara, and Zindra, the adult continent Also if you're gonna cross sims with vehicles a lot, make sure you disable "predict position during region crossing" or something along that line in the Firestorm viewer preferences / settings, it kinda solves the "vehicles flying around everywhere" issue with laggy vehicles!

`1The SL mainland is divided into 5 main continents or conglomeration of continents - 1. Sansara the original continent with its roads, lakes and varying biomes, which is connected to the swampy Heterocera continent with its pa through water 2. Jeogeot with its long countryside roads and rez-enabled gulf where people like to do war games 3. Satori with its long roads just like Jeogeot, but with a different biome, which is connected with Nautilus City Island where people get 2x prims for their lands, Nautilus Continent which also has roads but has many bodies of inland waters, Blake Sea which is a privately owned collection of regions where most airports, yacht club and related activities are centered at

SL is stagnating but it isn't in decline, but yeah, I agree with you that first user experience or impression can be better.

I'm aware this has been suggested a few times in the past, and has been done on a 3rd party viewer which is Black Dragon, and can be done on most viewers too through the debug settings. But still, I think there should be an easy-to-access solution for anyone who wants to have this camera preset that they can do with the click of a button (through toolbar button or a setting in preference, for example) I'm not suggesting changing the default SL camera of course, as most of us are used to it already and I'm sure it's the way it is for good reasons. But it would be neat for both old users who want to swap between camera presets easily and new users who might find this camera preset more preferable. It does increase immersion by quite a lot, and probably much more suitable for people who prefer it to be that way. I have personally seen new users and people reviewing SL saying how "weird" the default SL camera is, so maybe having this option would be beneficial for everyone. What do you guys think? Edit: I think the reason LL hasn't implemented this yet is because many seats' default camera is set for the SL's default camera, which kinda break or changed when the camera preset is changed, but still, if that problem can be overcome (or simply let creators adjust to the new optional preset) it would be a nice addition to the default viewer.

I've tried that countless times when trying to get gamers into SL but it only works for the types of gamers who care for such things (MMO players who are into MMOs for the character customization, housing and the social aspects instead of the combat, for example)

The happiness that comes with virtual existence or virtual embodiment as I explained in this video

The moment I got a realistic trash disposal system https://gyazo.com/faf9386ae7a6683c6587a3191f920096

Made this to help members and would-be members of my SL-based group understand our ideology of virtual embodiment c=

I know those places! I recognize the first and second screenshots, I practice my heli landing a lot on the place in the 2nd screenshot it's near Grunion (SLWS Airport) where I buy a lot of my helis from, so I go there a lot.

Was showing this to my friend on Steam, my countryside house neighbor put on a new sign o -o

Oh I know that place! c= I sail through there a lot whenever I want to sail to Poseidon island ❤️

The name is CLPP (kinda hard to remember, I remembered it as CCPL then didn't find it and had to look it up again) http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Community_Land_Partnership_Program