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Virtual Goods Panel
Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale and Chief Product Officer Tom Hale were joined recently by Second Life residents Harper Beresford and JeanieSing Trilling in a mixed reality panel at the Virtual Goods Conference in San Jose, California. Hale and moderator … Continue reading
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A billion hours in Second Life
Linden Lab announced in a press release last week that Second Life users have logged over a billion – that’s 1,000,000,000 – hours in world. That’s the equivalent of 114,000 years! Users came from over 200 countries – over sixty … Continue reading
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Lawsuit against Second Life
Stroker Serpentine (Kevin Alderman) http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliep/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Can a plumbing company CEO become a millionaire by selling sex toys in a virtual world? Yes, Kevin Alderman has and earlier this month his real world company Eros LLC, along … Continue reading
Mixed Reality
An article on Friday by Des Moines Second Life Music Examiner Jen Harvey raises an important issue: the growing reality of mixed reality. If you don’t know what mixed reality is, don’t feel badly. It’s going to be a huge … Continue reading
Using multiple Second Life viewers simultaneously – part 4
In this picture, multiple avatars logged onto a single computer ponder the problem of using multiple avatars logged onto multiple computers. We discussed these options in Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series.. One thing we haven’t … Continue reading
Using multiple Second Life viewers simultaneously – part 3
In Part 1, we discussed using multiple computers to use multiple Second Life avatars and viewers simultaneously. It has the advantage of having a much lower impact on computer performance than using a single computer, but also has two major … Continue reading
Using multiple Second Life viewers simultaneously – part 2
In Part 1, you learned several ways to log several avatars onto Second Life simultaneously on a single computer. Now, in Part 2, you’ll learn how to set the target so you can run multiple instances of the viewer simultaneously, … Continue reading
Using multiple Second Life viewers simultaneously – part 1
It’s common for Second Life members to have multiple avatars, but many don’t know that they can easily have several of their avatars logged on simultaneously. When you try to log on with a second avatar, you get an error … Continue reading
University of Texas’ major move into Second Life
Colleges and universities are experimenting with ways to use Second Life to enhance their educational offerings and recently this column featured the program at Texas State Technical College that allows students to earn an AA degree with classes taken entirely … Continue reading
Debugging Second Life performance problems
Your avatar tries to walk, but goes nowhere, then after finally making some progress suddenly gets whipped backward. If it continues happening, what should you do? Problems like this are examples of lag, and can be caused by either the … Continue reading
