Adam Spark

It can be used to determine if two accounts are yours, yes (with some level of accuracy. It isn't impossible that two users share a location or PC). But unless you are using alts for reasons that are begging for such karma, so what?

Not really, but I do live with family and like to show off what I'm doing in there.

What I was referring to was shared in RL space

Every website you visit gets that. Your IP is just your computer's web address. It means nothing and really reveals little of importance. The risks involved with somebody having your IP are highly overstated.

VR seems strange to me because I can't see what the headset user is experiencing, because it requires a headset in the first place, and because nobody else can see what I am playing without it. Having to take it off and put it back on while playing and dealing with the real world...Having to wear the thing long enough to enjoy playing anything... both major turnoffs. The phone is different. A person in the room knows I'm on the phone. They hear my end of the conversation. In VR nobody knows what the hell im doing with my hands. Throw speakerphone in the mix and the entire thing can be heard. And gaming is a far more shared experience than telephone conversations, so the analogy doesn't work for me.

Then why are companies either ditching or downsizing their VR efforts or scrapping them and going back to the drawing board? Headset makers like Occulus excluded, I admit. I see a woman wearing an ugly bulky headset on her face and seeing things that only she can see. To anyone else in the room she is just waving her arms in midair. This has got to be a fad.

Well, obviously a blog will be promoted for advertising purposes. Blogs that showcase the world as it is will naturally take precedence over commentary. Would anyone really expect otherwise out of any company, or even of themselves if they were in the Lab's position?

Any time a company officially acknowledges or incorporates a third party into its business, that third party has to adhere to a level of standards. This is no different than the Third Party Viewer Directory, in which resides multiple popular viewers which must adhere to Lab rules or be dismissed from the directory. Linden Lab is selecting these because they are popular, and probably because they already like the content as is. Oh and no company on earth would ever associate itself with critics of its own work. Blogs that get handcuffed by the rules will either stay because the blog author is fine with that, or they will leave the network and continue doing what they do independent of LL. I see no reason to judge a blog merely on its being on this list, but instead will be judging them on the content they submit to LL for publication.

I answer that age-old question in SL pretty simply. "You get to decide". Built-in game mechanics are fine if Horizon wants to be categorized as a game, such as WoW or Fortnite. If it truly wants to be, as the article put it, "Facebook's answer to Second Life", and be a virtual world, built-in game mechanics could be a problem. Ah, simpler graphics or barf city... One more reason to expect that Virtual Reality will be spoken of only in past tense before we know it.

I've submitted 1 abuse report and 1 problem report in the last two years, so my experience is limited. I submitted them online through FB support. In the abuse report I was notified that the offending page was reviewed and taken down. In the second, I was told that my feedback would be used to improve Facebook. Probably a generic response, But Facebook does receive support tickets on their website at least. You may be right about whether they actually do much about it lol

I've not had the greatest experience but they do have support. And either way they are sent feedback/support requests. They will get a ton related to a non-VR version of this. That was all I was trying to say.

Funny. This is their answer to Second Life, yet they are refusing to take lessons from Sansar and have made it VR-centric? Second Life need not worry about anything VR related. I hope Facebook is ready for the onslaught of "desktop mode" feature/support requests.

True, IP addresses have been a concern to the uneducated for a long time. As for the data collection, if some company wants to market based on what they know about me, fine. They're going to market to me anyway. Might as well be in a way I have some interest in. Case in point - I ordered Dominos one night. Ever since, Dominos ads have appeared on Facebook repeatedly on my end. Super easy the next time I ordered. Super easy. I was gonna see ads anyhow, thankful they are Dominos ads cause I love my Dominos lol. Can such data collection put the data in bad hands? Perhaps, but those bad hands were working pretty successfully on their own behalf long before Google.

They know where you are in general. They don't have your street address. Its almost certain that it would be a major headache for any DJ to use that info in any way that would in any way have any negligible impact on you. They'll talk about my weather? I do that freely and daily. Cold night here Newfoundland, Canada. Fall setting in. I just looked up mine and the city it gave was the location of my ISP's head office. I'm 1000 miles away. I've used VPNs. Trust me you'll have a much better experience without worrying about it. I really do not understand the fear of privacy that has taken hold of the internet these last few years.

While that reasoning is probably legit, I would argue that most people sell cheaper in-world as a draw to their store, in order to draw attention to their place and their inventory of items. I don't think it has a lot to do with the discounted item itself in many cases. I actually would consider it very healthy practice for the grid as a whole. Anything that draws Marketplace users into logging in and teleporting to shops can only be a good thing imho. It makes the MP compliment in-world shopping the way it should, rather than the MP simply being an alternative to it.

It is indeed No Match. It is called No Rest

I don't, and the first thing I do whenever I have to fix settings is set complexity to no limit. I have no use for any limitation that hampers the immersion of the world. Unless I'm meeting somebody who complicity decided on choosing a jellydoll avatar to represent themselves, I have no use for seeing one. I will crash every 20 minutes first. The problem that is lag resides with sim owners and to a larger extent Linden Lab. I have been in a sim with 98 people and zero lag. I've been in sims with just me and the sim owner, and barely able to move. I was asked to lower my scripts. I did do so but boy was I laughing behind the keyboard. And before you assume so, no I was not wearing excessive scripts. A 500K ARC lag inducing? Solve that problem, LL. Oh and before I hear how difficult a problem that is - I am sure an idea like SL itself sounded like a monumental task in the late 90s when LL began. By 2003, not so much.

This is me. Normally in blonde hair - well ok I change color frequently. Wearing pink as I am getting an early start on Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

You will likely want to spend a little from time to time in my experience, if you can at all. However, there are ways to earn linden dollars without spending. I caution you however. Some (arguably all) ways will require a lot of patience. Some ways will require a ton of effort. Some will require just dumb luck. Others pay but not well. As a newcomer, check out the previously mentioned groups. Search freebies in the search function. My first suggestion is to enjoy exploring the grid. See what others are doing. Learn from them. Don't expect your dream avatar or anything else tomorrow. Take your time. I learned a lot in my early days, but I do wish I took more time to savor and soak things in. Learn skills and see what might interest you. You'll probably want to know some basics - prim building and taking photos come to mind. You already mentioned the photos, which is encouraging. Take lots of them, if only for the memories! You'll quickly discover that you can apply your skills to ways to earn money! Photography is a business here. You can sell creations. Visit clubs and events to see how you might get hired to host, or to perform as a singer or a DJ should you have the skills and desire. You seem eager to learn and I wish you the best. My partner and I are available to help. You are always welcome to message me in-world to learn more. Welcome to Second Life.

Keeping things because of BoM? Other than a few tattoos at most, nope. Bakes on Mesh is nothing more than putting system layers on mesh bodies. Stuff that looks like it was made in 2008 won't be going on me. I tried it when BoM project viewer came out. I do have a few things with sentimental value I might never delete...but when I used them with BoM, I couldn't tell much difference than when I wore them with a system body. Its a bandaid approach to solving an issue that existed in the early days of mesh only, when everyone was up in arms about not being able to wear their old clothes. We moved on long before the lab did on this one, apparently.

There is a ton of old system clothing still in inventories just waiting to be slapped onto a mesh body and brought back from the dead. Sadly though, it still looks like the junk mesh made it look like. There might be a nice niche for old tattoos. I do agree though, I really see this as a fad, cause non-mesh on mesh will always look like non-mesh on mesh.

Way over the top reaction. Yes its her right. Its our right to say chill, too. I will say this - If I have to leave that quickly, I try to log from SL if I have just TP'd to such a location. Its the quickest way out. I've accidentally TP'd to homes. I leave immediately after apologizing, unless the homeowner could care less about the intrusion and engages in chat. Yes, that does happen. Well it used to before everybody got offended by everything.

I believe Sansar is a pretty good indication of what Linden Lab is realizing about VR - that the hype was highly hyperbole. Its a thing and it has its niche. I respect that. But I really don't see what the hype is about. I for one have no interest in anything that requires wearing headgear that is much more than your typical headset.

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