Category: Economics of SL

Now in Sinespace: Adjust Clothing Tint in Real Time With Color Wheel Feature — Plus Creator Tips from Gaby of PrettyDeceased

June 12, 2020

The Eris Bodycon is a new strapless leather dress in the shop of Sinespace (an NWN media partner) which includes a new-ish feature — the ability to adjust the tint of a clothing item in real time to a near infinite degree, using a color wheel user interface. (See above.) Created by Gaby, owner of…
Racist Slurs Being Used as Search Tags by Some SL Marketplace Vendors; Linden Lab Investigating

June 2, 2020

New World Notes contributor Cajsa Lilliehook just pointed me to this Second Life forum thread of users complaining that the SL Marketplace allows racist slurs to be used as product tags — and that some vendors are taking advantage of that to advertise virtual world content promoting racial stereotypes. I've been able to confirm this…
Second Life’s Virtual World Unable to Grow Further, For Now — Pandemic & Cloud Migration to Blame, Says Linden Lab

May 18, 2020

SL land grid circa 2018, photo by Daniel Voyager There once was a virtual world that kept growing and growing (and often shrinking along the way), with dozens of new islands and continents suddenly emerging, seemingly from the digital ocean, every month. But then in the real world, a global pandemic caused many to seriously…

Now in Sinespace: Adjust Clothing Tint in Real Time With Color Wheel Feature — Plus Creator Tips from Gaby of PrettyDeceased