Tag: Third Party Viewers

Now you may get a sense of deja vu when you hear that Jessica Lyon is organising a discussion on the future of Second Life event. However fear not, there’s a future of Second Life event from the past and there’s one set for the future, although if you read this post after the date of the future event it will have happened in the past!

Inara Pey also reports on the new event and points out that the discussion is about the future of Second Life, not the future of Linden Lab’s planned new world. Personally I think they will have difficulty avoiding discussion about the new world but it would be better all round if those attending stayed on topic.

The full details of the event are :

A very special Question and Answer meeting is planned for Wednesday July 2nd at 7AM SLT in the Firestorm Auditorium with Oz Linden (Technical Director of Second Life) and possibly Pete Linden (Director of communications at Second Life (AKA Gray of The Lab from San Francisco)).

The discussion will ONLY be about the future of our current beloved platform ‘Second Life’ and will not venture into the new platform currently under development. Lets hear what LL has planned for Second Life as there is plenty of time for questions about the new platform at a later date.

• Seating is limited, come early.
• The event will be recorded and posted here once rendered, as well as transcribed and summarized by Inara Pey.
• The event will be live streamed http://www.livestream.com/metaworld2 Questions will be monitored from the stream.
• If you have questions to ask please leave them in a comment on the Firestorm blog post and Jessica will try to get through as many as she can during the show.
• All questions must be on topic about Second Life and not the new platform.

Location And Time :

Wednesday, July 2nd at 7am SLT

SLURL : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Phoenix%20Firestorm%20Support/171/128/4002

 

Obviously a lot of people won’t be able to attend the meeting at that time but that’s an issue no matter what time a meeting is held. However an interesting meeting has already been held on this subject, with Jessica Lyon leading the conversation.

Continue reading “The Future Of SL Events Past And Future”

Changes to the Third Party Viewer Policy have been announced and they are contentious. Crap Mariner has a post with links to other blogs with good discussion on the issue. The most startling issue for me is whether this will hit innovation, as @SecondLife so well puts it:

“BREAKING NEWS: Linden Lab changes Third Party Viewer Policy to ensure that all viewers suck as much as their own.”

The part of the policy that leads to these concerns is :

2.k : You must not provide any feature that alters the shared experience of the virtual world in any way not provided by or accessible to users of the latest released Linden Lab viewer.

Exactly what this means is where matters get vague, however in the recorded meeting, which is long but you can listen to here, Oz suggested that Parcel Windlight settings and avatar physics, which were initially exclusive to third party viewers, would be forbidden under the new policy.

Continue reading “New TPV Policy Raises Innovation Concerns”