I've been quiet the past two months, which is mainly attributed to a much-needed holiday vacation and subsequent stressful getting-back-into-work period. All this is complicated by the fact that El's currently staying in the hospital, but hopefully will be out again sometime this week. Anyway, as you can imagine, there wasn't much time to do anything productive, so I don't ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arblVyxn0qQ[/youtube]   Links: Interview with Justin Clark-Casey Hypergrid Business - The Hypergrid is a social web Chuck Prophet on Archive.org Douglas Coupland and William Gibson on the KWLS William Gibson in Second Life (Part 1 | Part 2) Jeremy Bailenson on Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life and New Worlds Aloha

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNWidQrgf8[/youtube] Links: Open Simulator Overte Foundation Justin Clark-Casey's Master's Dissertation on Internet-Scale Virtual Environment Architectures Hypergrid Unity 3D Second Life Experimental teleport between Second Life and OpenSim Diva Distro Kitely OpenSim Creations Topics: 1:30 How do you become an OpenSim core developer? 8:00 Can OpenSim become the "3D web"? 14:00 Does OpenSim need asset security? 24:00 Does OpenSim need feature parity with Second Life? 31:30 How do you decide which features are in OpenSim core? 37:30 The state ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/JnUPx0dF5h8[/youtube] Links: Archive 3D Blenderswap Pathfinder's Virtual World Presentation Lag in Second Life and OpenSim and how to deal with it

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I don't know how to put this without sounding lame, because I'm actually really excited. I've been looking for a solution to a social network for myself for - literally - years now, and for OpenSim (any maybe Second Life) users as well since I launched OSC. And you might remember I started TAOS.name last year (and screwed it up ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/m39ca4qEPEs[/youtube] Kinda in response to the latest episode of Metareality Podcast, but actually more of a general comment on the show. Get your free Cactuar here.

In the 4 months since I last posted an update on the Loom, nothing much has happened. Recently, though, I finally got around to do a little more work on our metaverse home, so that finally the towers are back in place and connected again. Current snapshot: And while I was at it, I finally played a little more with Viewer ...

For now, this is just the recording of yesterday's event. All in all, I was happy to hear that SpotOn is indeed committed not to use its patents in an anti-competitive manner, and we have a few more information about what the patents are there for. I don't know if I'll write any further follow-up about this issue, or the ...

Hi everyone, I just got home from work, and wanted to get this out asap: Without much fanfare, but this time with a little more advance notice, SpotOn announced to hold a discussion on "SpotON3D ‘s Patent Pending Plug-in: Is it a threat or a benefit?" tomorrow, Friday, August 19th at 5pm SLT on their expo in Second Life (at http://slurl.com/secondlife/SpotON3D%20Biz%20Solutions/128/126/53/). As ...