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Second Life’s 13th birthday celebrations may well have ended in terms of performances and music, but the regions are still open for exploration and as it’s a lot less busy this week, it’s far easier to navigate your way around.
The regions will be open until Sunday July 3rd and there’s still plenty to do, such as touring on pods, grabbing free gifts, enjoying the exhibits, hitting the Linden prize gives or enjoying the big hunt.
Music Fest in Second Life, a three day live music festival event that is part of Second Life’s 13th birthday celebrations started today at 11:00am SLT with a performance from JuelL Resistance. The full schedule for Friday June 24th is :
All times are in SLT or PDT if you prefer and all performances for Music Fest take place on Stage Left.
Xiola Linden was at the front of the audience, leading attendees in dance.
The crowds are mixed, there’s no dress code, other than be decent and PG rated as it’s an official event. The music is, as I’ve said, live.
Today I was reading an article over at the Inquisitr by Cal Jeffrey : No Man’s Sky’ Spoilers: Indie Developer To Revolutionize Gaming After Settling Lawsuit. The article is, as you would expect, about the hotly anticipated No Man’s Sky, which I am very interested in.
The article starts by pointing out that No Man’s Sky will still be called No Man’s Sky after settling a trademark dispute with SKY broadcasting group. This seems to be an absurd claim by the way, I am not sure how SKY had a leg to stand on, but apparently they did. The Sky was here long before the broadcaster, but I digress.
Another part of the article caught my eye :
No Man’s Sky has no plot or storyline. This aspect may be its only drawback, but the move is intentional. Hello Games wants a game where players create a story of their own. In that sense, the game is a bit like the now defunct Second Life. Second Life had no story. Players just logged in and lived their second life. The difference with No Man’s Sky is that there will be things to do in this game and there will be lore to uncover and somehow the Atlas ties into that lore.
I’m used to people saying “Second Life, is that still around?” but defunct? Nothing to do? This in the same week as Second Life is celebrating its 13th birthday!
Today’s event schedule can be found here and again we see a mixture of events including DJ’s, live music, discussion, poetry, dance performances and more. There’s pretty much 24 hours worth of events scheduled.
The Second Life Community Celebrations to mark Second Life’s official 13th birthday are in full swing and there’s a lot going on, so much going on that for a visitor it may be a tad daunting, but fear not, there are ways of finding out what’s going on.
Your first port of call should be the Second Life Community Celebration Website because this will contain detailed information.
The website contains blogs, event information, region information and much more. Now an important thing to note here is that there’s a hell of a lot going on and this is useful to know because it means that if you find a region is full and you can’t get in, there’s a very good chance something else will be going on at the same time and you may very well be able to get into that event.
As an example, Monday’s schedule for 4pm SLT (16:00 SLT) offers :
So there’s a mix of DJ’s, live music and storytelling at the same time, so plenty of choice.
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Time machine time, back to the annals of history, all the way back to June 23rd 2003 :
Residents and prospective residents,
Welcome to Second Life!
I am pleased to announce that today, Monday June 23rd, we are releasing Second Life version 1.0, and opening the service for general availability.
We’ve been able to reach this milestone through a combination of very hard work in creating a unique new technology and product, and the amazing efforts and engagement of our Early Creators and beta residents.
A ‘ball-drop’ ceremony was held in-world last night to celebrate the release.
Along with the many early residents of Second Life, let me salute our entire team of ‘Lindens’ for bringing this amazing experience to life. It has been a tremendous effort and, well worth it.
Philip Rosedale
aka Philip Linden
With that, Second Life was officially born. This Sunday, June 19th at noon SLT (12:00 PDT I think!) the doors will open for the Second Life Community Celebrations to mark Second Life’s 13th birthday! Hurrah!
The brief version of the schedule is :
However that’s a very brief version of a celebration that will involve DJ’s, Live Music, Panels, Entertainment, Interviews and much much more.
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