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A Wintry Visit To New Babbage And Beyond In Second Life

New Babbage in Second Life is a place ripe for exploration, adventure, roleplay, shopping or just taking snapshots. This is a Steampunk location and it is beautifully created. When people wonder what people do in Second Life, New Babbage is a fine example of creativity, collaboration and fun.

View Of New Babbage

The blurb in New Babbage tells us :

A steampunk city built by fans and enthusiasts of the genre. Pop over to visit other fans in a 100% optional roleplay environment. Better yet, live the Victorian SL life and rent land or place your shop here!

This is a location that feels like a city, there are trams, walkways, alleys and more.

Inside New Babbage

There is also a lot of snow at the moment and if you use the region windlight settings, a lot of fog, but that’s not so good for snapshots.

Babbage Square

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Videos From Steampunk New Babbage And Beyond

I have been visiting Steampunk in Second Life today and getting a very cold and winter feeling wandering through the mean streets of New Babbage and beyond. I will have a more detailed report later, with some pictures, but for now here are some videos I made with the help of Xsplit Broadcaster.

These videos are largely silent and very basic. I did start a video commentary but then got all self conscious and realised I really need a script.

ClockHaven

SLURL To ClockHaven : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Clockhaven/32/90/111

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First UCC SL All Set For Christmas Plus Plenty Of Other Festive Attractions Available

First United Church of Christ

The virtual world offers an escape from the physical world this holiday and after spending time shopping this morning in a supermarket where it looked more like the Zombie Apocalypse was coming this weekend rather than the supermarket being closed for one day, I have to say that a virtual setting has distinct advantages.

I decided to pop along to the First United Church of Christ and Conference Center in Second Life to see how they were getting on with their Christmas preparations and a very festive sight it is.

This region changes with the season, so a change to a snow filled setting was not a surprise, but snow works well in Second Life, rather oddly I find it doesn’t work so well for snapshots from Second Life, you really need to visit the snowy settings to get the full and immersive beauty.

Away in the Manger, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!

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360 Degree Snapshots Coming To Second Life

Lurking in The Trees

Whilst most of us are happy to take virtual world snapshots in traditional snapshot form, some people like to get a tad more artistic and some like to embrace new technology features, such as 360 degree photography.

Linden Lab are on the case as they blog about A New Perspective on Second Life :

If pictures are worth a thousand words, 360 degree images must be worth millions. That’s why we decided to develop a feature called 360 Snapshots that will make it easy to capture and share 360º images from Second Life. Check out some of these samples!

The link is most definitely worth following so you can see a sample of the feature via Callum Linden. The feature isn’t ready for prime time just yet, but you do have the opportunity to play around with it by the way of a project viewer. There are details and instructions about this on the wiki.

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