/by Claus Uriza
While attending Metanomics weekly show yesterday a friend forwarded me an IM from a Linden worker asking for help in the translation for a coming Danish SL viewer. About an hour later Ms. Linden TP’d and I hooked up with another Dane Tue Torok who has done 80% of the translation already. So all we need for now is finishing the last 20%, adjust, test and try to find the right Danish words for every little single detail. This morning I started testing the viewer and actually I don’t think I will ever use it hehe. I’m too stuck in the English but surely this will be very helpfull for the Danish SL community.
What the Lindens also told me was a coming German and French viewer on its way – that’s cool!
It looks like SL will hit the European market once again very soon.
I can’t wait hehe…
/ by Sky Light
Here is another, interesting example of an interfacing between real-life and second-life.
In this instance, Raymond Weil Geneve is promoting its Nabucco range of fine wrist-watches on an island of the same name, Nabucco Island. This is not a garish hard-sell. This is an artistic creation in 3-D, nicely done. To see this with full effects, follow the (current) link about Second Life from the Raymond Weil Geneve home-page.
We have a private island for sale in Second Life (65,536 sq.m, 15,000 prims) – contact Heidi for further informations (e-mail Heidi)
/by Heidi Ballinger
My dear friend Bevan Whitfield just posted this enjoyable picture of the future Second-Life-Keyboard, hehe.
A picture from Flickr (made by Prad Prathivi)
And I love the “Fix script errors-button”, hehe
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/by Speedmaster Bing
Not a real problem in virtual worlds yet, but like other media it’s only a matter of time.
And with content creators control expanding in virtual worlds, it will be even harder to control what kind of info, you will receive and get exposed to.
At the Web 2.0 Expo last week, Technologist Clay Shirky argues that information overload isn’t a new problem: it’s really a failure of information filters. Clay argues it has been like that for 500 years, so not news to most of us.
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/by Heidi Ballinger
I just noticed this video, posted by Malburns.
“This Viewer uses the graphics engine used also for PS3, and works by the ActiveX technology on IE”
/by Heidi Ballinger
Torley have made these awesome tutorials about the new functions in windlight in Second Life (watch these 4 videos). Read the rest of this entry »
/by Heidi Ballinger
Now you can create Omni-3D imagery with Micoy technology!
I truly love Sci-Fictions, and not to mention “HOLODECK” (which I have been using a lot in Second Life for my buildings and designs).
At TechCrunch50 I talked with the guys from Micoy. They had placed a huge dome on the floor, and inside this dome they have created a 3D technology that lets you walk around and interact in a 3D virtual environment.
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/by Heidi Ballinger
Ustream.tv was one of the service partners at TechCrunch50 – and I was very impressed about their services.
We have lately invested in a streaming server at the University, but even through you cost hundred of thousand of dollars in your own server I don’t think you will get the same quality like you do with Ustream.tv
With this system you are not limited to 30-100 people – this will give you the opportunity to stream out to thousands (millions) of people.
Ustream.tv was launched in March 2007 and they have grown to nearly 500.000 registered users broadcasting over 8.000-10.000 live shows a day.
And it’s able to embed the personalized Ustream-channel into any website.
So, in a short way, Ustream.tv is a interactive broadcasting tool that enables anyone with a camera and an internet connection to easily broadcast to a global audience of any size at any places.
/by Heidi Ballinger
At TechCrunch50 I talked with David Strakhovsky from the company Websketch!
Websketchs beta had a booth in the demo-pit, and I had a good talk with David.
The past 15 years we have seen many attempts to create an intelligent webpage-tool to create your own webpage’s with, and Websketch is some of the most interesting tools I have seen so far.
Websketch is where you express yourself in ways possible today only with web designers or engineers. Freely create a webpage that’s totally you – pics, videos etc.
The only thing I miss about this tool is the opportunity to create a blogfunction on the different pages on your site, but David told me that this was an application they have planned to launch in the near future.
- and when this function is available I will re-design my page with this tool – without any doubt.
/by Heidi Ballinger
Prof. Robert Bloomfield – in Second Life: Beyers Sellers – from Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management is invited guest in the research project “Sense-making strategies and the user-driven innovations of virtual worlds”.
/by Claus Uriza
Pop Art Lab are almost through its weekend opening and what a thrill. We opened Friday eve and within short time the dancefloor was filled and 50-60 avis partied wildly. Two hours later Led Zeppelin concert kicked off and about 70-100 avis saw an awesome high quality performance with superior music and lightshow settings.
Let’s take a short break and look at the statics. Well PAL went in a timely fashion when Linden luckily picked up PAL in its showcase. Suddenly friday afternoon PAL was on front page of music showcases and people kept coming in. During first 24 hours PAL had appr. 300 visitors! The total amount although from start of PAL months ago is up at almost 5000 now. We increased the PAL group from 100 till 200 members during the opening so far.
/ by Sky Light
The Photo Institute is entering it’s fourth semester of teaching in Second Life. Classes run from beginners’ courses about the basics of the SL camera functions and capabilities — to advanced courses in composition, lighting and other technical issues, as well as intensive workshops in subjects such as portrait, landscape, and nude photography.
The class schedule is available for Autumn 2008.
/by Heidi Ballinger
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Can’t wait!!!
/by Claus Uriza
I finally thought its about time to celebrate ½ years of work of gettin Pop Art Lab up runnin stable.
I earlier blogged about setting all this up but here’s a little reminder.
Pop Art Lab presents all new and best cds released on market through 4 streams into 4 musicrooms. All cds are streamed full length in 128 Kbs normally 2-3 days 24/7.
My mentor recently joined the Cutting Edge Productions which is a company hosting some of the most spectacular concerts in world at the moment. So why not get some kick ass rock from my all time faves Led Zeppelin! Ofcos’ it’s a tribute band but handpicked by some of the best musicians in SL. Usually concerts like these crash sims so we set up a giant bridge from PAL and made a PAL Sea stage in the center of 4 sims so hopefully we can host 100-200 avis.
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