Welcome to 2012, lovely NWNers. Let’s start this year with an open forum that comes with a very open-ended question: What are Your Predictions & Resolutions for Virtual Worlds, Gaming, and Technology in 2012? Of course these can be about…
Second Life Saved My Sanity Second Life was the surprise rescue to a part of my soul I didn’t realize was so traumatic it was locked away for 30 years. Prior to May 1978, I was a dancer (nine years), a gymnast, (six years) and a springboard diver, (three years, through school. Though my activities were varied, in my heart, I am a dancer.
The Monastery: A Dream Comes True My name is Arria Perreault. I am a citizen of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, a democracy in the virtual world of Second Life
It’s December, the end of the year where the days are getting a a little shorter (well, at least in the Northern Hemisphere – daytime is always three hours long in Second Life). And, it’s a time to think about those things that have been best in life for the last year. What still makes me happy is the Second Life community that I’ve been with for the past five years: UUtopia
Dimensions, the augmented audio reality game from Robert « Dizzy Banjo » Thomas that I wrote about last month, is now available in the iOS app store. The game integrates sounds from your real world environment into the virtual reality « multiverse » of…
Written 2 December, 2011 And They’re Off! The PG Den of Iniquity wouldn’t be a den of iniquity at all without horse racing, now, wouldn’t it? I mean, ya gotta bet on the ponies! So I bought this great horse race game from Mechanical Toy Factory and Sweetie, I, and our friend Elysienne settled in for a night of PG debauchery. And They’re Off! Elysienne Uses Her Steampunk Goggles to Send Her Rider Secret Signals The Rider from Virtual Uzbekistan Is Pulling Long Odds Isn’t This The Very Picture of PG Virtual Debauchery?
We’re Making Premium Better — Starting with Exclusive Gifts & Sandboxes We’ve been working to bring more value and features to our Second Life Premium Members. Effective immediately, we’re adding new exclusive benefits: Premium-only Gifts and Premium-only Sandboxes — and that’s just the beginning! Keep an eye out for even more surprises in the future as we continue to enhance and expand our Premium Membership offering. Here’s the scoop on what’s new right now: Exclusive Virtual Gifts Premium members will regularly receive exclusive virtual items that you won’t find anywhere else
Articles récents
- NWN Comment of the Week: Steampunk Land Baron Desmond Shang on Why Losing SL Land is Healthy for SL
- Since Avatars Can Be Perfect, Flawed Hair Seems Stylish
- SL Bloggers Group Back in Business in SL and Social Media
- New Novel About a Man Who Falls in Love With Siri
- Who’s Your Most Valuable Twitter Follower?
- Where Was I?
- Chey Gets Distracted
- Miss Ophelia’s Metaverse Manners: The SL Etiquette of Copycats, Copyright, and Crying Wolf
- FB Users Spent $1.85 BILLION on Virtual Goods in 2011!
- Badass SL Avatar Inspired by Hellboy Movies is Badass
- How Reddit’s Virtual Community Helped a Real Community
- Chey Goes to coldLogic
- Give a Warm Reception to coldLogic’s New SL Mesh Fashions
- The Short But Friend-Filled Life of a Hot Facebook Bot
- Love Me Notes – Love in Less than 50 Words
- Be a Rat in the New Second Life RPG by Grendel’s Children
- Indie Game: The Movie, Documentary on Indie Developers of Fez and Super Meat Boy
- 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
- SL Estate Revenue Falls Below $5M/Mo, Lowest Since 10/09
- 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
- Have Furries Fairly Fled Second Life for Furry Forums?
- 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)
- Second Life Redditors Wonder WTF is Up With Linden Lab’s SL Poor Ads — Please Tell Them, Lindens!
- Newt Gingrich, SL Fan, Likely to Be GOP’s 2012 Candidate
- Top Five New World Notes News From Last Week
- How to Stylishly Celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year in SL
- Here’s the Vampire That Should Be On SL’s Homepage
- Sim Deathwatch: Cartoonimals Leaving SL on the 14th
- Good Marketing Tips for SL Fashion Bloggers
- World of Skyrim Actually Much Smaller Than San Francisco
- Bryn Oh’s SL Art Crowdfunder Raises USD$6K in One Day!
- How to Shoot Spectacular Second Life Screenshots: Iris Ophelia’s Way… Versus Linden Lab’s Way
- 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!
- SL Insiders on Alignment Code Controversy: No Personal Animus, Karl’s Code Will Be Integrated into the SL Viewer
- 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
- Top 7 New World Notes Posts Last Week
- Iris’ 5 Point Checklist for Flawless, Foolproof, & Photoshop-Free Second Life Snapshots
- 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
- Sim Deathwatch: Without Funding, Bryn Oh’s Landmark Immersiva Art Space to Close Soon
- 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!
- Best of New World Notes 2011: My Favorite 10 Posts
- SL Viewer Performance Comparison: Linden’s Still Best, Exodus & Mikshake Best of Third Party Viewers
- In NWN Survey on Improving Second Life, Plurality Call for Making Mesh-Capable Viewers Mandatory for All Users
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