Virtual Worlds – Page 280

July 5, 2011July 5, 2011

DRTSIM-65 – Silencing Sounds, Hiding Avatars

I’ve mentioned before how it’s worthwhile keeping an eye on what they’re discussing on the Mesh forums and user groups, another group worth keeping an eye on is the Server Beta User Group. Now, you should bear in mind the name of this group and therefore be prepared for what’s discussed there never to reach the light of day on the main grid, some projects will prove not to be feasible, others will be superceded, but others will arrive on the main grid and one catches my eye, codenamed DRTSIM-65 and with a name of “Parcel Sounds” this has potential.

Basically the aim is for land owners to be able to restrict sounds from gestures and attachments, so when you’re hosting an event nobody can throw down the train … wait that’s World of Warcraft! Basically nobody will be able to do the woohoo’s and make them audible if you restrict sounds on your parcel, music streams and voice will be fine but those sometimes distractng gestures won’t be.

The other part of this is named Hidden Avatars and this will mean if you have this setting set, you will only see other avatars on your parcel and other avatars will only see you, if they are on your parcel, or to quote Simon Linden: “what happens on your parcel, stays on your parcel“. The good thing about this is that you can test this out on the beta grid right now, I’ll discuss that later in the post and with pics to prove it!

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July 2, 2011July 2, 2011

Linden Lab Do An Age Verification U-Turn

One thing that is driving me nuts about Linden Lab is that I get more information on what’s happening from Cristiano Midnight’s SLUniverse than I do from the official site. Now in some cases there are mitigating circumstances, such as the rumoured new profiles issue, they aren’t ready for an announcement or they never will be I guess. However for things like the new age verification policy? Why on earth am I finding out about this via a thread on SLUniverse?

Tateru Nino has also covered the new age verification process, rather than seeing an announcement from Linden Lab. Linden Lab are also not the best at marketing, they never have been but to improve matters on these fronts Linden Lab should just bloody well go and make Robin Harper an offer she can’t refuse (and I don’t mean a horse’s head in her bed) and drag Catherine Linden back kicking and screaming too! Communication is key.

Anyway back to the point of this blog post, the new age verification process and it couldn’t be much easier, you simply enter your date of birth and promise to be telling the truth.

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June 28, 2011June 28, 2011

Adult Content User Group Still Treading Water

There was a point at yesterday’s Adult Content User Group Meeting where Viale Linden pleaded for no more private IM’s, claiming “I am not a bot” … however questions are still abound whether or not Viale is a bot because he seems to come out with phrases that are straight out of a management course book, take a look at the agenda:

1. Facilitate sustainable, productive communities by partnering with key groups and residents. (different from executing on a community wishlist).

2. Bring the value forward .

3. Focus on sustainable movements, not discrete campaigns. Source the community for naturally sustaining, organic initiatives that scale and utilize trusted community resources while still aligning with corporate goals. Move away from LL-driven events and start spotting movements with natural momentum.

4. Embrace community content as an untapped, invaluable resource.

Hmmmm.

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