Meet The Lindens At SL14B Worked Very Well

Dee, Patch and Saffia

Meet The Lindens at SL14B saw Saffia Widdershins of Prim Perfect fame conducting four interviews with Lindens.

Saffia interviewed Patch and Dee Linden on Monday, Landon (not from London) Linden on Tuesday, Xiola Linden on Wednesday and Oz and Grumpity Linden on Thursday.

Saffia battled technical glitches and a cold to conduct these interviews and these interviews worked very well.

Landon and Saffia

Now if you want to know what was said, this isn’t really the post for you, although I will embed the videos near the bottom of the post.

Inara Pey has been on the case though and currently has extensive transcripts of the interviews with Patch and Dee, Landon and Oz and Grumpity.

Xiola and Saffia Talk

Part of the beauty of these interviews is that they give us an insight into the person behind the Linden and we learn some new things, in many cases, about the Lindens.

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SL14B Time To Enjoy The Exhibits

Dirty Grind

The partying might be over in terms of performances at SL14B but the show goes on and this second week is a great opportunity to explore the exhibits.

1920s Berlin Project SL14B

There are a lot of exhibitors at SL14B and they bring to fore the vast array of different interests and use cases for Second Life.

Watermill Cottage

Art, roleplaying, Linden Lab governance, Bay City, London City, Virtual Railways, carnivals, entertainment, discussion and much much more are on display.

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SL14B Music Fest Features Live Music On Three Days This Weekend

Steps to Stage Left

SL14B Music Fest, featuring live musicians in Second Life as part of SL14B kicks off at 11am SLT Today. The music fest will see four hours of live music on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Stage Left.

The start and finish times are different each day, which gives people all around the world the opportunity to see some of music fest at a suitable time.

The schedule is (all times SLT) :

Friday June 23rd

  • 11 a.m – Tempio Breil
  • Noon – Evely Lane
  • 1 p.m. – Mar Biddle
  • 2 p.m. – Zak Claxton

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Get Your Free Sananok Avatar and Mysterious Egg

Vending Machine

There’s something mysterious going on with Linden Lab and this year’s SL14B celebrations, something very mysterious indeed, which we can see by way of a Linden Lab blog post :  Second Life is Turning 14 !

Well you may think there’s nothing mysterious about Second Life turning 14, but pay attention, there’s something mysterious about this year’s gift of a free Sananok avatar and a mysterious egg.

Sananok Avatar and egg

The first mysterious thing is that even Linden Lab are sure of what a Sananok is :

We’re not entirely sure what a Sananok is, but the Moles assure us they are friendly creatures that tend to keep to themselves and need a good home. Each Sananok avatar comes with a mysterious egg, which is in fact so mysterious, not even the Moles know what it will hatch into.

Furthermore, The Moles aren’t quite sure what that egg will hatch into.

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Sansar, Sustainability and Suspicion

A couple of unrelated articles about virtual worlds have caught my attention. One is by Cecilia D’Anastasio for Kotaku : Hands-On With Sansar, The New Second Life.

The second is regarding a greener future by Julia Rosen for Nature, International weekly journal of science : Sustainability: A greener culture.

Whereas the articles are unrelated, I’m going to link them because the latter article covers a subject that Sansar could help with.

First Cecilia D’Anastasio’s article for Kotaku, this as the headline suggests, takes a hands on look at Linden Lab’s Sansar and has some very positive commentary about the platform :

my favorite, an Egyptian tomb. In real-life, this tomb is only accessible with permission from Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities. The level of detail a Lidar-scanned image of it betrayed in Sansar was astounding.

Also impressive were Gholston’s facial movements as we toured around the world. Sansar is developing a new facial recognition software that contorts avatars’ mouths into shapes it knows people’s faces make when they pronounce certain sounds. It’s like vocaloid software, but it blends into the whole Sansar caprice of “immersion,” an empty buzzword that took on sudden meaning inside Sansar today.

This exemplifies how immersive Sansar and other Virtual World / Virtual Reality ventures will get. Whether this makes them more popular remains to be seen because beyond superb technology you will also need communities.

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