Look for this sign in Second Life for contest rules Don’t forget, tomorrow (March 12, 2009) is the last day to enter Second Life’s Sci-Fi & Fantasy Snapshot Contest! You can learn about rules and prizes at the rezlibris website or in Second Life to can teleport to slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/205/114/33 and look for the sign in this…
Making better Second Life snapshots using the environment editor, part two
Spaceport Alpha’s GLSV rockets at noon The GLSV rocket, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for putting satellites into orbit, will be our subject in using Second Life’s Environment Editor. These rockets are at Second Life’s Spaceport Alpha – International Spaceflight Museum. You can visit this exact spot and stand next to these…
Making better Second Life snapshots using the environment editor, part one
Czechoslovakia sim at noon In ancient times, only the greatest of prophets could blot out the sun, but today any lowly mouse or trackball can accomplish it, at least in Second Life. This is a key element in making great Second Life snapshots. High noon may be a fine time for an Old West shootout,…
Review of seven Second Life language translators
Recently I met a beautiful woman in Second Life. Ok, she was someone’s avatar, but still beautiful. When I tried talking with her, however, I learned she was Romanian and knew little English. I had similar experiences with two other avatars the same morning. One was Swiss and the other Brazilian, but none of us knew enough of the…
Sci-fi & fantasy snapshot contest
The Alliance Virtual Library has announced a sci-fi and fantasy snapshot contest. The deadline for entering is March 12. You can read more about it at my Examiner.com column You can read the complete contest rules here, or you can read them on a notecard in Second Life next to the Talis Sci-fi & Fantasy…
Ursula Le Guin’s Feb 28th appearance in Second Life
Yesterday’s Ursula Le Guin event in Second Life was an overwhelming success. You can read more about it on my examiner.com blog. Here are three pictures from Friday’s rehearsal and from the actual event (click to see each one in full):
Ursula LeGuin will be beamed into Second Life Feb 28th
Famed author Ursula LeGuin will be beamed into Second Life tomorrow, Saturday February 28. She will be at the Potlatch 18 Conference in Sunnyvale, California, reading from her novel and taking questions. Second Life members will be able to watch her in real time video from the amphitheater on Info Island. It will be a…
A New Blog Is Born
OK, I guess a new blog isn’t something the world desperately needs, but I’ll do it anyway. I am Apollo Manga, one of the avatars of Erik Gordon Bainbridge, who’s been a Second Life member since 2004, when Second Life was a much smaller and much more primitive world than it is now. Back then,…
Will Virtual Worlds Rescue TV (or vice-versa)?
As online audiences continue to ignore TV and vanilla/social virtual worlds suffer from a lack of direction, will the marriage of the two will save both from irrelevancy?. (Gary Hayes, PersonalizeMedia.com, Feb 1, 2009) Read
ScienceSim, a Step on the Way to a 3D Internet?
ScienceSim, using OpenSim open source technology, is a collaborative virtual world for scientific researchers. (John A. Hengeveld, Intel Blogs, Jan 29, 2009) Read