Yes, there is a paying audience for great Second Life art, and yes, they are willing to pay quite a lot to keep it thriving. That’s my take to some pretty impressive news: Last night, the Toronto-based artist known as…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion Shortly after I posted my five point checklist for flawless and Photoshop-free SL snapshots last week, someone on Plurk shared a Linden snapshot done to advertise the company’s « New Year,…
Written 19 January, 2012 Politic Against SOPA and PIPA The Stop Online Piracy and Protect Intellectual Property Acts, now wending their ways through, respectively, the US House of Representatives and the US Senate, while designed to stop copyright theft from websites outside the Unites States, present grave threats to free expression and the Internet. As you no doubt know, a number of high profile websites, including Wikipedia, shut down yesterday in protest. Others, like Google, changed their home pages for the day to register their concern.
OpenSim, the open source spinoff of Second Life, is gaining many new regions and grids, according to HyperGrid Business, but that only tells part of the story. As this happens, actual users of OpenSim seem to be shrinking. In 2009,…
Coliloquy, a digital publisher of interactive fiction, just launched its app for Kindle with four novels this week, and since it’s a new platform for online, user-collaborated content, I thought it worth noting here. A friend is working on the…
Thank you to all the residents who participated in the contest. If you submitted an entry or just browsed and voted on other people’s entries – it was great to see all the work and pride everyone made and took in this Second Life Forum first! Congratulations to our winners and runner-ups! You will be hearing from us shortly!
Man on a Mission is a new documentary about Richard « Lord British » Garriott, the game and virtual world innovator whose Ultima Online from the late 90s is still online today, and who invested his millions to make a voyage toward…
Today if you’re to look up the user-generated service Second Life on Wikipedia, another user-generated service, you’ll get the result above. That’s because today, Wikipedia leads the protest against PIPA and SOPA, two bills which unduly threaten both Wikipedia and…
Two great news items for supporters of SL art: Peter Greenaway, the acclaimed British director of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover with Helen Mirren, and The Pillow Book with Ewan McGregor, has donated 6 months worth…
I talked with some SL insiders on background about the recent controversy over the alignment code from ex-Linden Karl « Qarl » Stiefvater, which Karl donated to the official SL viewer, but implementation of which has been delayed, provoking accusations of personal…
Minecraft, a sandbox game with prim-based creation tools, now has nearly 20.2 million registered users, of which almost 4.7 million have bought the game.
« Inside Tetris Battle, Facebook’s top multiplayer arcade game » is my latest report for Inside Social Games on the rising popularity of Tetris Battle, a re-imagined version of the arcade classic created by Tetris Online, a game company based in Honolulu….
The Obama Administration came out against SOPA, the « Stop Online Piracy Act » House bill which threatens Second Life and its users, and it now seems to be dead. However, PIPA (« Protect IP Act ») a companion bill in the Senate, is…
Written 16 January, 2012 Blogger Maintenance If I’ve not been posting much lately it’s because I just spent a good month going back through my posts on Blogger and editing them for consistency. Since there are more than 1800 posts, it took a while. Blogger is bad for throwing in all sorts of div and span tags
Karl « Qarl » Stiefvater has declined to work any further with Linden Lab on incorporating the code to his useful alignment tool into the official SL viewer. This comes last week after the Linden vet donated the code; since then, Linden…
Aurasma is an augmented reality app for iOS and Android that integrates 3D virtual experiences into everyday objects which show up on your smartphone’s camera, and it looks pretty cool. Watch: Hat tip Douglas Story. Just as cool, the app…
EFF Confirms: SOPA & PIPA, If Passed, Would Jeopardize Second Life and Its Users Iris’ 5 Point Checklist for Flawless, Foolproof, & Photoshop-Free Second Life Snapshots Second Life Lost 879 Private Sims and $500K to $2M in Revenue in ’11…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion The Secondlife.com homepage image (pictured on the right) gave me a sharp case of déjà vu recently. About one month ago I wrote about how LL could improve their Marketplace…
So I asked the venerable Electronic Frontier Foundation if the SOPA bill, as I feared, would jeopardize Second Life and its users. Short answer: Yes. Also, another bill, PROTECT IP Act (or PIPA), is just as concerning
Second Life lost 879 private sims in 2011, according to Tyche Shepherd’s indispensable Second Life economic analyses. I double-checked this data with her, and this amounts to a drop in total land revenue for Linden Lab from about $62 million…
My colleague Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat has an exhaustive post on what went wrong with Multiverse, which recently announced its shuttering and continuation as an open source project. The article attributes the underlying problem to development timing and declining revenue…
Immersiva, the landmark art space created by a Toronto artist known in SL as Bryn Oh, has lost its former patron, and may be close to leaving Second Life entirely. A last-minute bid to win patronage from Linden Lab has…
SOPA, the « Stop Online Piracy Act » currently being debated in Congress, to massive opposition by much of the Internet industry, would probably be a grave threat to Second Life, if passed. Since SOPA seems mainly aimed at website-based copyright « piracy »,…
This year, Linden Lab will launch « some completely different products » from Second Life, some of which « will be very experimental, but all will fit within our company’s proud history of enabling creativity ». But what
According to Google’s Ad Planner stats, the majority of people now visiting Second Life’s homepage are under 34, with 46% of them 24 and younger, and 33% of them 17 and and younger. This is interesting for at least a…
« Game Company Addresses Epic PR Failure on Reddit » is my latest article for The CMO Site edited by my pal Mitch Wagner, and as the title suggests, it’s about the PR disaster recently experienced by videogame company N-Control (you know,…
An Image is Worth a thousand words – and sometimes it can be worth L$5000, too! Out with the old and in with the new – show off your dramatic Second Life makeovers with a before-and-after picture that highlights a new look you will be rocking this year in Second Life. There will be one grand prize winner (L$5000) and three runners-up (L$1000 each). Think of all the shopping you can do with that kind of allowance! For all the details on prizes and how to enter, please read the « New Year, New You! » Picture Contest
The growth of mesh across the Second Life grid has reached an adoption rate of 22%, according to Linden Lab.
If you’re on Google+ (and judging by the Circles I keep getting encircled in, many of you are) you might be interested to know that Second Life has an official page on the search engine’s social network, here. So far…
Game development veteran Raph Koster has some very sage tips for making low budget games: Stop rewriting code. Engine reuse, library reuse, etc
One day about 10 years ago, an engineer named Philip Rosedale walked into the vast Nevada desert and saw something like this: Note: Mildly NSFW. It became the basis of Second Life as it was first conceived: The idea that…
Remember that supremely useful alignment tool for SL building created by ex-Linden Karl « Qarl Fizz » Stiefvater, which I wrote about in 2010? (See his demo above.) As you may have read, Karl recently contributed the code to Linden Lab, in…
Second Life’s Reddit sub-community is among the top 10% largest among the site’s many communities. In a recent blog post, Reddit’s General Manager reported there are now 100,000+ subreddits, but only 8,400+ subreddits with over 100 subscribers. The Second Life…
The Written World is a very interesting game concept seeking Kickstarter funds.
Skyrim is still my current favorite digital world vacation spot when I’m not writing about digital worlds, but after killing my sixth dragon with hardly any effort, this is pretty much my reaction: Seriously, it took a few arrows and…
Ex-Linden Karl Stiefvater Explains How His Crowdfunded Code Improves SL Mesh – Get the Alpha, Give Him Feedback! Tipodean Converts Second Life & OpenSim Content to Web Using Latest Version of Flash & Unity In NWN Survey on Improving Second…
In recent weeks, there’s been a scandal around an SL fundraising drive for a real world medical non-profit. Short version: After a number of SLers made fairly substantial donations, questions arose whether the drive’s organizer had actually donated the money….
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion In the spirit of all this year-end summarizing, I’ve gone through every post I’ve written since this time last year to single out the 5 most viewed/shared/commented on. Some of…
Written 6 January, 2012 Erratum I received an instant message from Ample Clarity, the creator of the one-prim piano I blogged about night-before last. Ample thanked me for mentioning the piano and let me know the piano isn’t mesh after all– it’s a well-done scultped prim. So maybe complex one-prim mesh objects have a high cost after all.
Two of Lilith Heart’s Three-Prim Strelitzia on the Volcano Pele Two of Lilith Heart’s One-Prim Sculpted Strelitzia on the Volcano Pele Since the Photos Don’t Quite Show the Difference, Here is: One-Prim Sculpted Strelitzia at Left, Three-Prim Strelitzia at Right Written 6 January, 2012 The Lindens are Stingy With Resources Second Life is ever so much more rich and complex than it was when I first came here in 2006. There are all sorts of new features: Windlight skies, new physics and scripting engines, sculpted prims, voice, and now mesh– many of which require more computing horsepower than did the 2006 version of Second Life
Click here to see something pretty cool (as depicted above, in a screencap from my own browser): SL content converted to run directly on the web, using Flash and Unity 3D. No, no Unity plug-in required, you just need the…
Only in Second Life would an interactive art installation vie for popularity alongside an entire island devoted to bukkake. Courtesy Louis Platini’s Metaverse Business, a Second Life/OpenSim analytics company that gathers publicly accessible in-world data for its clients, here’s the…
Multiverse, the MMO/virtual world platform launched in 2004 by a number of Netscape veterans, has ceased operations, which is unfortunate news for many reasons. However, here’s one good and interesting upshot: The platform has gone open source, and community members…
When I first saw the trailer to The Adventures of Tintin, Tintin and friends seemed so creepy and artificial, I wrote on my Facebook wall, « Steven Spielberg just spent $200 million dollars to illustrate the Uncanny Valley. » I haven’t seen…
Written 4 January, 2012 A New Way to Count Prims I’m not sure how I missed it, but with the advent of mesh content in Second Life there’s a new way to count prims on one’s land: Prim Equivalents. In short, this means there’s no longer a 1:1 ratio for prims/prim count
35% of NWN readers who took my survey on paying to stream Second Life said they’d be interested in doing so, with the most popular rates $10 a month for up to 30 hours, immediately followed by $40 a month…
I noted 2011′s top NWN posts by popularity last week, now here’s a selection of my own personal favorites that I think (hope!) are still worth reading. At the very top is « Sander’s Villa: The Man Who Gave His Father…
This is a very useful performance comparison of eight popular Second Life viewers ably and laboriously created by Inara Pey of Modem World, who deserves props for the heavy lifting.
Last month I asked readers to vote on a simple feature or feature tweak that would greatly improve the Second Life experience overall, and here’s the striking results: By a pretty wide margin, the plurality (almost 31%) called for making…
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- Who’s Your Most Valuable Twitter Follower?
- Where Was I?
- Chey Gets Distracted
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- FB Users Spent $1.85 BILLION on Virtual Goods in 2011!
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- How Reddit’s Virtual Community Helped a Real Community
- Chey Goes to coldLogic
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- Last Names for SLers Return Soon — Plus News & Updates
- Uncanny Valley Theory: The Effect Occurs When We’re Passive Viewers, Not Interactive Participants
- Epic Second Life Clockwork Orange Outfit is Epic
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- SL Estate Revenue Falls Below $5M/Mo, Lowest Since 10/09
- Why Reddit Rules Over Facebook and Twitter: It’s the Pseudonymity, Stupid
- New World Notes Highlights from Last Week: Kinect and SL, Google+ and SL, Avatars vs. Hollywood, and Much More
- Why Lindens in Second Life Seem Arrogant & Out of Touch
- Iris Rants: Don’t Let Fear of SL Content Theft Cause Paranoia Over Alternate Designer Identities!
- OpenSim Study on Virtual Treatment for Phobia Needs Cars!
- Sim Deathwatch: SL’s Hardcore Hard Alley Hits Hard Times
- NWN in Japanese: Bryn OhのSLアートがクラウドファンディングを通じて、1日でUS$6000の寄付を獲得!
- Explore OpenSim & SL Regions on the Web & Convert Others for Web Use With Avatars Via the ArchTech Engine
- Google Reportedly Allows Second Life User to Keep Google+ Account Named For His SL Avatar
- Ask Miss Metaverse Manners About Dealing With SL Content Theft Accusations!
- Tokyo University Developing Real Time, Open Source Kinect-to-Second Life Software
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- Have Furries Fairly Fled Second Life for Furry Forums?
- How to List Your Avatar Name Next to Your Real Name on Google+ (Which I Generally Recommend)
- How to List Your Avatar Name Next to Your Real Name on Google+ (Which I Generally Recommend)
- How to Photograph Photoshop-Free SL Water Reflections
- Google Now Allows Fully Pseudonymous Google+ Profiles — But Only Those Known by a "Meaningful Number" of People
- Do Hollywood Actors Fear the Rise of Avatar-Based Acting?
- A Klein Bottle Comes to Second Life (Again)!
- OpenSim Active Users: Now About 15,000 (Same as in 2009)
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- Top Five New World Notes News From Last Week
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- Bryn Oh’s SL Art Crowdfunder Raises USD$6K in One Day!
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- Politic Against SOPA and PIPA
- OpenSim Gaining Regions… But Not Gaining Many Users
- Coliloquy Launches Dynamic Interactive Fiction E-book App
- New Year, New You! Contest Winners
- Richard Garriott Built Virtual Worlds to Leave the Real One
- Protest Today Against SOPA & PIPA, Which Threaten SL
- Stop SOPA!
- Peter Greenaway Acclaims SL Artist Bryn Oh, Donates to Crowdfunder to Re-Open Immersiva — and So Can You!
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- Prim-Based Game Minecraft Exceeds 20 Million Registered Users, Almost 5 Million Paying Customers
- Made in Hawaii: Tetris Battle, One of Facebook’s Top Games
- SOPA Seems Dead, But PIPA Still Threatens Second Life
- Blogger Maintenance
- Claiming Staff Bias, Ex-Linden Karl Stiefvater No Longer Helping Linden Integrate Alignment Tool into SL Viewer
- Aurasma: Virtual & Real Augmented Reality for Smartphones
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- EFF Confirms: SOPA & PIPA, If Passed, Would Jeopardize Second Life and Its Users (And Here’s How to Take Action)
- Second Life Lost 879 Private Sims and $500K to $2M in Revenue in ’11 — I.E., Why Tier Costs Won’t Likely Lower
- What Went Wrong With Multiverse: VentureBeat’s Take
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- Could SOPA Strangle Second Life? Sadly, Seems So.
- What "Other Products" Will Linden Lab Launch in 2012?
- Youthful Opportunity: Most Who Visit SL’s Site Are Under 34
- How to Handle PR Crises on the Virtual Community of Reddit
- Announcing the New Year, New You! Image Contest
- Second Life Mesh Stats, January 2012: 22% Sims Have Some Mesh From 240 Daily Uploaders for 140K+ Total Objects
- Second Life Has an Official (If So Far Unused) Google+ Page
- Raph Koster’s Tip for Low Budget Game Development
- Lovely Tribute to Burning Man, Which Once Inspired SL
- Want Qarl’s Alignment Tool for SL Building in the Official SL Viewer? Then Vote On It!
- Reddit’s SL Community Among the Top 10% Largest (But Could Be a Lot Larger)
- Want to Play a Massively Multiplayer Storytelling Game?
- Skyrim Dragonslaying: Such an Anti-Climax (So Far)
- Top 8 Posts from New World Notes Last Week
- SL Fundraising Scandal Strongly Suggests Need to Work Directly With Real World Non-Profit Organizations
- Iris Ophelia’s Top 5 Talked-About Posts in 2011: Gender Bending, Avatar Race, Virtual Fur & Other Touchy Topics
- Erratum
- The Lindens are Stingy With Resources
- Tipodean Converts Second Life & OpenSim Content to Web Using Latest Version of Flash & Unity
- Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims for December 2011
- Multiverse Becomes Open Source MMO Platform After Closing
- Does Tintin Take Us Past the Uncanny Valley into a Future of Hyperreal 3D Graphics?
- A New Way to Count Prims
- Survey Suggests Substantial Market for Cloud Streaming Second Life — Which an Expert Says is Feasible at $99/Year!
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