Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Open Source/Reverse Engineer
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Click here to join the Discord server for Crystal Frost, the Second Life viewer on Unity project I blogged last week and the brainchild of longtime dev Berry Bunny (Kallisti#2038 on Discord). Starting today at Noon PT, Bunny's going to livestream her development of Crystal Frost there, an eventually announce the release of a usable…
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Above: "Vastly more realistic lighting. This is a sunset in Crystal Frost." SLer Berry Bunny (Kallisti#2038 on Discord) is a longtime developer who's been working on various Second Life projects for well over 15 years. Along with some impressive in-world games, she's done mixed reality projects for Italia Telecom and a nursing school experimenting with…
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In case you missed it (and I sure did during the Thanksgiving run-up) Second Life's source code is finally and officially on GitHub here. I'm surprised this wasn't the case before, but hopefully it gives the viewer codebase much more visibility to GitHub's huge and highly creative developer community. Who knows, maybe someone will finally…
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We know that many seniors like the late Fran Serenade (above) have found great value in using Second Life, both as a social/creative platform and (as in Fran's case) even finding therapeutic value in them. However, many seniors have difficulty learning or using the SL viewer for Mac/PC. But what if the virtual world was…
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Emphasizing that his upcoming departure from Linden Lab "has nothing at all to do with the change in ownership of the Lab" (the long-running startup was recently sold to the Waterford Group holding company), the veteran technologist Scott Lawrence, known by tens of thousands of SL users by his avatar name, "Oz Linden", just posted…
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There's a new update to Black Dragon, the SL viewer with a cult following for making Second Life look like a AAA game and for giving users great features for virtual photography and machinima. Speaking of which, here's a new Black Dragon photography tutorial from SL YouTuber and apparent Fleabag cast member Boston Blaisdale. It…
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