Openlife dumps Second Life viewer support
I haven’t logged into Openlife for a few weeks, so I was unaware that support for the standard Second Life viewer has ceased. The proprietary viewer is now standard fare. Release 1.6.2 is the current build, and the Mac version runs like a dream for me. I’d argue its performance is zippier than the Second [...]
Openlife currency on the way
In another evolutionary move for Second Life alternative OpenLife, a virtual currency is on the way for the platform. February 2009 is the tentative timeline, and any Openlife resident can purchase what will be called ‘credits’ via PayPal or credit card. Only region land owners will be able to cash out credits which may concern [...]
Migration to Openlife: one story
Aussie Second Life resident, Shai Khalifa, has posted an interesting piece on our discussion forums. As Shai writes, she had been a Second Life resident since September 2006. Technical problems, the lowering of sim pricing and the Openspaces issue led to her making a full migration to Openlife. Shai goes on to put the case [...]
Virtual Worlds and Australia 2008 Part 2
Look for Part 1 of our roundup here. Onto the second half of 2008: July 2008 – The first issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research launched – We started a two-part series looking at virtual world addiction – The first successful teleport between the Second life grid and an OpenSim grid was announced [...]
Virtual Worlds and Australia 2008 Part 1
It’s that retrospective time of the year again – last year’s look back was a popular feature so here we go again: January 2008 – Linden Lab issued a warning on currency trading scams – community-driven politics related to the US presidential election was observed in World of Warcraft – we made a personal comparison [...]
Linden Lab: standalone servers soon
AVWW 2008 continues (a wrap-up of Day 1 will appear soon), with some superb presentations and discussion. This morning I attended the presentation by Linden Lab’s Chris Collins, who gave an interesting overview of Linden Lab’s approach and future plans. Two standouts for me were: 1. The 2009 beta of a standalone Second Life grid [...]
Openlife sees benefit of Linden Lab price rise
The past 48 hours have been fascinating to observe. Since the announcement by Linden Lab of price rises for OpenSpaces sims in Second Life, there have been protests, petitions and the odd paragraph of doom-saying. It’s been one of the larger resident backlashes since the gambling and banking bans, and some are voting with their [...]
