Re: OpenSim grids still adapting to mesh
If I understand your point correctly, you're looking at building-with-prims as a certain art form which requires a certain skill set (beyond lots of talents), and this art form might become as defunct...
View ArticleRe: Architecture’s virtual reality
Jon,Fascinating and well-illustrated. I am an M.Arch student in the process of incubating a thesis proposal at the UPenn, thinking it is falling somewhere in the field of augmented...
View ArticleRe: AviWorlds moves to self-hosting
Sure.aviworlds.com:8002:welcomeAlso we will be doing an oar placement of all the stores one by one later on...not now.Unfortunately we could not re use our old data base. So now we have all this work...
View ArticleRe: 3rd Rock looks to real world music fans for new users
I love 3rg for it's music scene. This is a cool addition. I wish them all the best. [and now I need to make some time to go see this]-))
View ArticleRe: BitCoin revisited: beware the bubble
Fiat currencies and stock prices don't have a minimum landing value, the unit price goes to zero if people lose faith. Even for gold the intrinsic value is much less than it's "faith" value. There's...
View ArticleRe: Virtual Highway currency now traded on Podex
I am wondering how Podex can be allowed to exchanges the virtual and real currency since no one else than the 5 company listed on the seondlife's wiki are in the authorized resellers program...
View ArticleRe: White House studying use of video games in education
"Back in 2010, the Obama administration asked Microsoft to build a federal budget flash game, which they hoped would give average citizens an idea of how difficult balancing the federal budget actually...
View ArticleRe: S. Carolina considers virtual world charter school
I've been watching the Noble development for awhile now. I knew they were doing some classes with OpenSim in Cumming Georgia. I didn’t know that they had made a standalone school out of it. I can't...
View ArticleRe: Grid outages hurt traffic, slow growth
This is an interesting article. As some of you may know I have been evolving my own Grid into now what it is as Project COSIE. I think the hypergrid itself is seeing a metamorphasis from what had been...
View ArticleRe: S. Carolina considers virtual world charter school
NOBLE Virtual is applying for charters in several states. The charter process takes two years in most states and each state is slightly different. We are on the 4th step of a 5-step process in South...
View ArticleRe: Grid outages hurt traffic, slow growth
Metropolis has been back up, and running even better, for a few days now...maybe a week, I can't keep track of time as well as I used to be able to...lolThe politics issues is not Metropolis's and you...
View ArticleRe: S. Carolina considers virtual world charter school
Thanks for the info Steve, I'm rooting for this project. I potentially had a high-school relative (in North GA) that would enjoy the school and get a lot out of it -if it was starting this fall, but...
View ArticleRe: Grid outages hurt traffic, slow growth
OH I agree that Free Grids are needed - I was just commenting that many open effort grids have gone the way of McGrid's. I can also agree that many newcoming grids are springing up as a result.This is...
View ArticleRe: Grid outages hurt traffic, slow growth
-)) yes, and lots of work is being doing in free grids. I think it is wonderful. I do a photo blog for Metropolis here:http://minethere.blogspot.com/...just to showcase some of what is done in the free...
View ArticleRe: New registration requirements may apply to Second Life, BitCoin miners
Sorry a bit late to your article, but, if were Second Life, I'd drop the direct monies and just open a BTC exchange and let the BTC people handle the fincen legal tender issue, translating virtual to...
View ArticleRe: Linden Lab allows third-party currency sales
"We’ve heard from some users outside of the US who are concerned that it may now be more difficult for them to purchase L$ to use in Second Life,” This sounds so much like LL spin. Why would it be more...
View ArticleRe: Second Life is a killer app for Oculus Rift
Thanks for including one of my Pics in this article. I too see great potential with SL and OR. However the seasick / carsick symptoms as reported my others with similar VR glasses in the past would be...
View ArticleRe: Can we help each other get in shape?
See also this Kickstarter project which keeps you movinghttp://www.kickstarter.com/pro...
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