Archive for January, 2008

Linden Lab Working To Beef Up Second Life

{ January 29, 2008 @ 10:30 am } · { In the News, Is the News }
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Well, I guess it’s official. Havok 4, HTML-on-a-prim and official “Sleek” clients on the way, along with some very interesting voice options, such as phone RL phone numbers and voice mail. Though, I’m more interested in the text-to-speech-to-text idea myself.

Mitch strikes again with that cool, insightful (inside?) knowledge he usually has when he unloads about SL in his columns.

Thanks, dood!

Linden Lab Working To Beef Up Second Life Stability, Usability — Second Life — InformationWeek
The company is rolling out upgrades to Second Life’s s physics engine, developing a Web browser that will work in-world, and putting the finishing touches on a lightweight client for text and voice chat.

RL Cars in SL? Yep.

{ January 29, 2008 @ 9:57 am } · { In the News }
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I’ve never really understood the whole concept of cars in Second Life. Jet paks, starships, even plain old planes I can wrap my mind around. Boats, too. but cars? Well, to each their own, I guess. Regardless of my understanding why they exist (and sell popularly for big bucks,) they are hear to stay.

For real now.

iMagicLab is opening a customer center in Second Life. Now, this means you can connect to a Real Life car dealer in SL locally down the road or across the world. Supposedly, you’ll actually be able to shop for a new RL car in SL.

Okay, when I bought my last truck, I tried to shop for it online through the plain old web. It turned out to be a nightmare. But, that was eight years ago. Things are far better today. And now, from withing SL, you’ll soon enough be able to shop models and perhaps ‘test-drive’ one.

I know, I’m laughing out of my chair, too.

iMagicLab to Open Virtual Customer Center in Second Life
Owings Mills, MD (PRWEB) January 28, 2008 — iMagicLab is pleased to announce that it will launch a new Automobile Dealer Relations Center (ADRC) for the expanding inhabitants of the virtual world “Second Life”. On the iMagicLab island “AutoLand”, Second Life avatars can visit a new multi-brand showroom, experience custom cars and chat with up to fifty nationwide car dealers at a time about pricing, availability and service issues.

Woohoo – T.V. Special about the hazards of SL

{ January 29, 2008 @ 5:00 am } · { Is the News }
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Yes, Second Life can really screw with your First Life.

Watch out or you’ll find yourself in faerie-tale land where everything is dream-perfet, until you open your Real Life eyes. I don’t live in the U.K. – but this is a television programme I’d sure like to see. Take a peek at the excerpt here (it’s funny,in a tragic sort of way…)

The Land Of Make Believe – The Daily Record
Carolyn fell “virtually”in love with the Avatar of a man living 5000 miles away in the UK. Now, she is planning a visit to meet him because she wants to find out if she is as in love in the real world as she is in the virtual world.All this sounds perfectly reasonable to Carolyn, but less so to her husband, Lee…

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