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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.

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 […]

Lip Sync Voice Chat for Your SL Avatar?

If possible, this is something that would make SL a little less creepy. Links to more info at:
The SL Wiki
The SL Beta bug tracker wiki

Streaming Video from a Nokia N800

There is an interesting write up on how to stream video taken on a Nokia N800 into Second Life here. It would be an odd circumstance that I would need to do this, but it is certainly good to know it is possible.

MMO for Kids Teaches Environmental Strategies?

Leigh Alexander of Worlds in Motion writes about an MMO IBM is launching the first quarter of this year, which will have kids staving off planetary ecological disaster by employing wind, solar, and water power strategies.

New Theme, More Posts?

We’ll see if the correlation holds true. Kinda like when you were little and got new sneakers - because they made you run faster, right? My intent is to start posting more here again.

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