Posts Tagged ‘Virtual Worlds’

[Second Life] The Mystery behind SecondLie

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

For a while now I have been living with a secret that is not mine to tell, yet a humble burden to undertake. turn of recent events leads me to reveal some of the mystery behind one of Second Life’s most popular faces in culture. this post is not a joke, or a prank. Although the  content of the post fits very well for the day.

This secret involves the twitter account SecondLie. for the uninitiated, SecondLie is a parody account that makes fun of Second Life. SecondLie is a mystery to many, and very few know the real entity behind it. Today I shall expose what SecondLie really is.

To start out SecondLie is a shared account between many users, Aiken to the basic idea of the Internet group Anonymous, although much more mild and with big contributing names in Second Life community. SecondLie is more of the accumulation of what users feel is wrong with Second Life. Everything is in good humor and fun, but also to let off much accumulated steam.

SecondLie’s account info is spread from user to user, and not from a single source. making it very hard to find the original account holder. There has been no leads for me to even consider who started it.

I am friends with a person who is part of SecondLie, but I will not reveal there name to honor an agreement we had previously made. There are at least 5-10 people part of SecondLie, and the creator is unknown to me and many of the collective. there have been suspicion to believe that several large bloggers & known content creators are part of SecondLie, I will refrain from naming them as I have no real facts to base it on, just strong suspicion.

[EDIT] I will not reveal whomever I find out to be part of SecondLie. I love the humor, and do not want to discourage anyone from doing it. [/edit]

[Update, Virtual World] Cyanblast in Second Life

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Cyanblast in Second Life - In Progress Within Second Life people often have a place they call “Home”, well this is my home.

Sadly there are no big red buttons to push just yet, but I am always working on it. I use this place for meetups and partys. Small yes, but nothing larger is needed in my mind.

The sim that houses this place is a great personal showcase of some of my personal projects (Cyanblast, Kaosome, SOMA – School of Design, PX – 01 art gallery). people can often find me hanging around somewhere in there.

 

 

 

Other News: Cyanblast.com has been updated with live Twitter feed and random pictures from my Picasa. I am working to better intergrate the site with social networks I frequent. Hopefully I will be able to find one of those red buttons to put on the site.

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[Virtual Worlds] 3D Internet? No. Internet made for 3D!

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

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Recently (Edit to read last several years) people have called Second Life the 3D Internet, or call it the Internet of 1995. That statement has of course been said over and over for a very long time, and overly out of context of what Second Life really is, a 3D Virtual World.  

Linden Research is supporting MMOX. this boils down to creating true interoperability for Virtual Worlds. Right now Second Life is a private application that can take any direction it wants, with MMOX it would have to adhere to a certain standard that would allow other virtual worlds to coexist with each other. Of course all of those virtual worlds would need to meet these standards too. So in the end it would create a network that works just like the 2D Internet. This would be a brick and mortar solution.

Saying 3D Internet is a tad overrated. The Internet is not 3D or 2D, it is just information passed back and forth no matter what form it takes. 2D and 3D both have there own strong and weak points. Second Life provides a very rich environment that cannot come close to that of 2D (Extra Dimension makes all the difference). Text is easier to read on a simple 2D webpage, but text in a immersive 3D world can add extra depth and convey emotion better. 

This is all very exciting for uber computer geeks, but means very little to the general public for several years. They are still replacing IPv4 (20 year old Internet protocol) with the new IPv6 (Internet protocol 6) 

[Side Note] I have decided to attempt and keep all blog posts under 300 words, and still carry useful info. Now at 278, wait 280… ugh.