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Kate Miranda
Music Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sea%20Turtle%20Island/60/23/26
Interests: Second Life, classical music, roleplay, art, design
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I am part of the "minority of hardcore "Second Life is not a game!" users" and am concerned about the gamification of SL. What assurances do we have that this game element is not going to impinge on business, event and educational uses of SL?
Linden Lab Announces Massive Update to Second Life Including Cloud Deployment, Improved Windlight & Animation, Grid-Wide Game Experience
If anyone in the tech and VR industry (not to mention the Second Life userbase) had any impression that Linden Lab was mainly walking away from SL to focus on Sansar, CEO Ebbe Altberg just sent out a mass e-mail announcing major updates to the 14 year old metaverse. Key points: We are hard at...
"There is a huge learning curve for mesh and much different than prim modeling. I look around today and there are so many amazing artists in SL creating beautiful things in mesh.”
And it was in the same years that, with the introduction of mesh and the loss of non-profit pricing (later flip-flopped) that we saw numbers fall and the community change radically. Rather than the inclusive world of do-it-yourselfers 2006-2009 or thereabouts, there was a shift towards a world of consumers and sellers. I don't recognize the place anymore and it no longer feels like "home". I have almost no interest in Sansar, and they clearly have no interest in a community music series host that has been coordinating live music in SL for 11 years as I was turned down as a beta tester.
Guardians of the Loz: Why a Hollywood Artist Creates Virtual Art in Second Life & Sansar
While some 3D artists are now taking their talent and brands from platforms like Second Life to Sansar, at least one is emigrating from a slightly larger platform: Hollywood. Nicholas Loizides, featured in the Sansar preview video above, has been working as a visual effects artist and modeler i...
I'm wondering about the invasion of tip jar con artists I am seeing lately. They seem to position themselves harmlessly in front of tip jars, dancing or running about like hapless noobs but are really trying to intercept tips. They never show up at the start of a concert, only in the middle. They don't answer IM's and in fact often poof if they are asked to sit down.
Flatterbot Owner Makes USD$160 a Day Begging SL Users Via a Network of Scripted Bots, According to Interview
Late last year you read our report about the invasion of flatterbots in Second Life - automated avatars programmed to beg SL users for Linden Dollars with a scripted dialog of flirtation and panhandling; now, it seems, we have an interview with the flatterbot owner. Blaise Joshua of Every Seco...
I'm not going to switch from Phoenix (which works for me) for something that people keep giving me various horror story reports on until I see any reason to do so. Mesh? Sheesh...do we need it? Is anyone working on it at Linden Lab anymore?
I'm not getting the Glitch comparisons here. It's a fun little game but very 2 dimensional. It's not much evolved over the look of IMVU. Cute, though. But far from the sophisticated build and scripting capacities of SL.
New SL Viewer 3 User Interface: Not Glorious Yet!
Inara Pey of Modem World and Daniel Voyager have a first look at the new SL Viewer 3 user interface, which was added as a user-accessible Beta candidate on the 18th, and which Linden CEO Rod Humble promises to be "glorious". Gone is the much-hated, behemoth right sidebar; instead there are ele...
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Dates of 2011 Federal Virtual Worlds Conference Announced
Paulette Robinson, co-leader of the vGov project and winner of the 2010 Association of Virtual Worlds Person of the Year award, sent out an announcement of the dates of the next Federal Consortium for Virtual World Conference. The 2011 FCVW will take place from May 12-13, 2011 with pre-confere...
Every application cannot inhabit the territory of Facebook and Twitter, serving the lowest common-denominator of social media. I wish Linden Lab would understand that they have positioned Second Life to serve a niche market of virtual world enthusiasts who are motivated to learn and use a fairly sophisticated array of tools to create, share and play within a virtual world that has no real competing product on the market today. They have a golden "bird in hand" and are giving it up for the two "birds in the bush" they hope to capture by dumbing down the experience and interface.
Second Life is nothing without the lively content created by individuals, non-profits, and educators within Second Life. Since this news has come out, every content creator I have spoken to has indicated some plans to explore other platforms.
Linden Lab Confirms: We're Developing a Second Life Viewer Accessible FROM the Web (Not a Second Life ON the Web)
No, Second Life is not being turned into a web-based virtual world like YoVille or Habbo. At least that's according to Linden Lab, which mentioned in the press release announcing a 30% workforce cutback that the company was now developing "a browser-based virtual world experience, eliminating t...
I hope you'll be covering classical music as well!
Music Island will be presenting the Second Life debut of Operatic Tenor Kain Scalia in concert this Saturday, Jan. 23 @ 1:30 pm. The program of favorite tenor arias and leider is available on the Music Island site at: http://musicisland.ning.com/events/kain-scalia-tenor
On Sunday Jan. 24, Violinist Izabela Jaworower takes the stage in a program featuring the sonata form http://musicisland.ning.com/events/izabela-jaworower-winter
Weekend Open Forum: What Second Life Musicians Should Be On Willow's Playlist?
Willow Caldera and machinimist Toxic Menges have been doing a great job with "Willow's Playlist", a weekly series covering Second Life's live music scene for New World Notes, but they've only just started. They're looking for many more musicians to cover in coming months, and they're taking sug...
I think that the idea that relationships that exist in meatspace are more important than those that exist online has to be challenged directly.
I know happily married couples that met online and earlier than that I knew one couple that met as school pen pals and corresponded for decades before finding a way to meet.
You don't have to be disabled to have a need to connect online. It is often difficult for us to find people who share our interests and with whom we find connections. Some of us are more at ease in text than speech. Why is a love letter on paper more important than the creation of a lovely romantic simulation in Second Life?
I'm sorry but if RL relationships are destroyed by Second Life relationships, I am quite sure that the RL relationship was in deep trouble to begin with.
Are Virtual Worlds Sabotaging Interpersonal Relationships?
Somewhere in the past few years, perhaps with the success of the Nintendo Wii, a paradigm shifted in how the general public viewed online game enthusiasts. No longer are they the love handled basement dwellers of Dungeons and Dragon lore. No, the pendulum now decrees that gamers are a h...
It's a neat video but it's too bad to hear that so much post production was needed.
Weekend Machinima: Classic Tales Re-Created in Second Life
Second Life has been called a "Story Box", and this gorgeously produced machinima from Willow Caldera and her team at Soundr gives that notion literal form, in a montage of scenes suggesting classic stories like Land Before Time, Hiawatha, Alice in Wonderland, Dracula, Emma, Around the World ...
Innovation InfoIsland is opening on Saturday October 3 and Music Island concerts has arranged for 3 wonderful hours of music as part of the festivities. Young Zeid, violin @ 12 pm, AldoManutio Abruzzo @ 1 pm and in the evening Cindy Ecksol with bring some down home fiddling, songs and autoharp to the jazz stage at 7 pm. Throughout the day there will be tours and talks about the various projects selected to be part of the project.
Sunday Open Forum: What's Happening In Your Second Life This Week?
The metaverse microphone is on: Talk about projects, events, places, people, and topics related to Second Life that you're involved with this coming week.
So often in discussions about Second Life Music, the several active classical music venues are forgotten. My own Music Island project is more than 2 years old. Benton Wandelich's Music Academy includes classical Music as part of his offerings, Early Music is alive on Renaissance Island, thanks to Thom Dowd, and Clarissima Schumann has launched a new beautiful venue and series this year on her personal island. While most popular venues offer many hours of recorded music for every hour of live music, our series, at Music Island is dedicated to the presentation on one live event each week.
Mixed Reality Komuso On The Future of Music Online
Music from YIS IT Department on Vimeo This is an extremely interesting and incisive talk on the future of music online from someone uniquely qualified to speak on it: the man behind metaverse blues master Komuso Tokugawa, the voodoo-flavored avatar who fronted some of Second Life's most inno...
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