Virtual Worlds – Page 9

March 15, 2018March 15, 2018

Philip Rosedale Wants His Old Second Life Avatar Back

When Second Life turned three, Torley took the above photo, it shows Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Lab, in his iconic avatar.

Moving on far more years than most of us want to admit, Philip Rosedale can be found in High Fidelity, looking much more like Philip Rosedale does outside the virtual world. In the below image, Philip is on the left side of the stage talking to Kent Bye of Voices of VR Podcast.

The video of that chat can be found here by the way, it was a fascinating and very interesting discussion, if you have time I definitely recommend that you watch it.

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March 14, 2018

Second Life Mainland Tier Prices Cut and Added Free Tier Bonus Increase

Linden Lab have announced changes to tier prices for Second Life mainland which result in a cut in tier prices, a new pricing point in the tier table and an increase in the amount of mainland you can own as part of your premium member free tier allowance. They’ve made this announcement on Pi Day too.

Here’s an overview of the pricing changes :

Old land allowance (m²)	Old Price	New land allowance (m²)	New Price
512	Free with Premium account	1,024	Free with Premium account
1,024	$5.00	1,536	$4.00
1,536	$8.00	2,048	$7.00
2,560	$15.00	3,072	$13.00
4,608	$25.00	5,120	$22.00
8,704	$40.00	9,216	$35.00
16,896	$75.00	17,408	$67.00
33,280	$125.00	33,792	$112.00
Not available	Not available	49,152	$150.00
66,048	$195.00	66,560	$175.00

Official details can be found here, and that’s an important link to go to because there’s an additional point regarding the tier table :

Above the maximum shown on this table, tier allotment increases in quarter-Region increments at $44.00 each.

That suggests that owning a full second region worth of tier would cost you an extra $166.00 a month, but I also thought that you could only go up in half region increments before, maybe that had already changed.

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March 2, 2018March 2, 2018

Kent Bye of Voices of VR Podcast Visits High Fidelity

Here in the UK we’ve been dealing with the Beast from the East meeting Storm Emma and all too predictably, chaos has ensued. … wait wait wait, I’ve done that!

Ah yes, you may want to stop me if you’ve heard this one before but after visiting Sansar Kent Bye of the voices of VR Podcast moved on to another virtual reality world in the shape and form of High Fidelity where Kent and Philip Rosedale enagaged in some extremely interesting fireside chat before a pretty decent sized audience.

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March 2, 2018March 2, 2018

Kent Bye of Voices of VR Visits Sansar

Here in the UK we’ve been dealing with the Beast from the East meeting Storm Emma and all too predictably, chaos has ensued. We don’t do snow in the UK.

Meanwhile, in the far less chaotic virtual world of Linden Lab’s Sansar, the Beast from Bavaria; Draxtor Despres met a storming VR enthusiast in the shape and form of Kent Bye, of the excellent Voices of VR Podcast.

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January 31, 2018January 31, 2018

SpaceX Govsat-1 Mission Viewed Live In Sansar

The NASA Appollo Museum in Linden Lab’s Sansar was the setting for a virtual world / virtual reality gathering to watch the launch of Falcon 9 as part of the SpaceX Govesat-1 mission.

The blurb from the SpaceX website informed us :

SpaceX is now targeting launch of the GovSat-1 satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Wednesday, January 31, at 4:25 p.m. EST, or 21:25 UTC. The satellite will deploy approximately 32 minutes after launch.

Falcon 9’s first stage for the GovSat-1 mission previously supported the NROL-76 mission from LC-39A in May 2017. SpaceX will not attempt to recover Falcon 9’s first stage after launch.

A fairly healthy sized crowd gathered to watch the liftoff, with the live webcast playing on a screen inside the museum and we got some pretty good views of the action.

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