A Virtual Conversation Overheard

I love the deadpan voice-over in the context of this discussion (video below):

Sending Info to WordPress using SLurlBlogger

Bristol Bay 180,105,25 – SLurlBlogger is a HUD made available from Ordinal Malprop that captures your coordinates in SL (SLurl) and allows you to post text to your blog or email address. This could be used for taking notes on a class, conference, or even minutes from in-world meetings. Even copy/pasting conversation from chat is [...]

Script Me, Baby

Building in Second Life. Looking for an LSL script that can give an object, change a texture, play a sound, or similarly simple action? It seems easy enough to look these things up in the LSL wiki, even for those of us who are not programmers… but why do all that work? Hilary Mason has [...]

Future Virtual Worlds

The concepts for the building tools in the virtual world featured in this film short are quite ingenious.

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

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Insight Into SL Prims

Avi Bar-Zeev from Reality Prime has written an insightful summary of how and why primatives work the way they do in Second Life. The explanations are from the developer’s perspective and include backfill on early decisions made when SL was still young. If you’ve ever wondered “Why?” while you were trying to build something, you’ll get something from the article.

Philip Rosedale at TED

Philip Rosedale speaks at TED about virtual worlds, creativity, and possibility. Video below:

One Step Toward Interoperable Virtual Worlds

Linden Labs has successfully moved an SL avatar to OpenSim according to a post made earlier this month by Zha Ewery. Although the news was kept pretty low key, I can’t help but think this is the equivalent of what the first steps on the moon are for virtual worlds… being able to move from [...]

Introduction to Second Life for GEO 493

Below are the presentation and links mentioned in my visit to John Bailey’s GEO 493 class…

A Virtual World Metblog

There’s a lot of buzz right now about Metblogs, a collection of city-centric blogs from around the world, running off of the WordPress Multi-user platform. It is a great looking site, but more than that I like that they have included a blog about Azeroth, a place in WoW. I almost missed the link, but [...]

Presentation about Second Life Using Stixy

Yesterday I gave a couple of small presentations about Second Life to small groups using Stixy instead of PowerPoint.There wasn’t a lot of time to prepare for these, so I collected images, some were mine and some I found on Flickr, included the proper attribution to the photos and was finished. Unfortunately, for both presentations [...]