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Selina Green (co-owner of Publishing & Book Islands) hosted an event about Second Life Love at the recent SL Book Fair. I, along with the 40 or so other avatars who attended, enjoyed a very interesting debate regarding Second Life Love.
So what of Second Life Love (Slove)? What does it mean? How do you fall in love with an avatar? Do SL relationships affect RL? <more>
“We’re pleased to announce First Look: Dazzle, a “refresh” for the Second Life viewer’s appearance which makes the UI (User Interface) more accessible and pleasing.” – Second Life Blog
Hailed by some as the new friendly user experience that Second Life desperately needs, Dazzle is a new brighter User Interface. It uses new buttons and symbols and has many ‘under the hood’ changes to ease customisation in the future. With a barrage of complaints however, is Dazzle all it’s cracked up to be? <more>
Space Navigating your way through Second Life
Always striving to improve your Second Life experience, we at Rez, like to look into all areas of the virtual experience. From changes of Trademark usage, to WindLight content creation, we try our best to leave no stone unturned.
Today I will hopefully uncover a little gem being realised by more and more people i.e. the 3Dconnexion Space Navigator. In the past, to use the Space Navigator you had to tweak the hidden Joystick Flycam options under the ‘Advanced’ menu of the Second Life client. The Wiki page did offer some insight and a well documented user, Tenebrous Pau offers his settings for the device which he has been using for a year now. However 3Dconnexion, a Logitech company, have been working with Linden Lab to bring support for their popular Space Navigator product to Second Life. This support has been implemented in the 1.20 Release Candidate. <more>
Nearly a year ago now, our favorite watermelon-loving Linden, Torley, announced to us the plans for a very shiny addition to the Second Life Client. This would be codenamed ‘WindLight’ and would contain new atmospheric rendering capabilities. <more>
What a difference a name makes
For any resident of Second Life, the official Second Life blog at http://www.secondlife.com/ is a must read site (almost as much as this one). It is there that you can find out the latest happenings at Linden Labs, the holders of our virtual destiny, the rulers of our metaverse, and sometimes, the cause of our annoyances (transactions unreliable two days in a row, at precisely the same time after a new simulator roll out, you say? Oh joy!). The big story this past two weeks was that Linden Labs, in a stance of defiance against a perceived threat to their corporate image, set out new rules about what you can and cannot do with the words "Second Life" "Linden" "SL" and "InSL". <more>