Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 25th, 2006
X3D Community Blog: VRML and X3D don’t suck. If we don’t get that, we suck. “working in the vertex economy is not as productive as working in the scene economy” but, x3d as the sweet spot [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 24th, 2006
San Antonio Current - Game Theory - Second Life escorts Nov 21, 2006 article by Aaron Delwiche on SL escorts (tags: secondlife avatar entreprenuership entertainment)
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2006
sl2flickr : Send postcards from Second Life to Flickr Kisa’s sl pix to flickr tool, yeah! (tags: photos secondlife mashup)
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2006
eightbar » Blog Archive » Innovation Jam results 3d Intranet as one of top 10 ideas coming out of this year’s IBM innovation jam (tags: press business secondlife) [...]
Posted in inworld, programming, secondlife on Nov 21st, 2006
Major progress on the Text-on-a-Prim possibilities. A combination of Junie and Intolerable and Kisa are producing some great new innovations in the quest to get something like web browser functionality in-world.
Why web browser functionality? Because that stuff works for us, and we want to have it within our virtual worlds too. True, there are arguments [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2006
HTML on a Prim, but with a difference… Si08han’s latest text on a prim concept… worth a look! (tags: web2sl)
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2006
Video Card Stability Test - Benchmark Results (tags: video hardware) The Mobile Graphics Card Info Page **READ BEFORE POSTING** - Notebook [...]
Posted in hardware on Nov 18th, 2006
This is a follow-on from the Desktop Hardware for Second Life post. Again, these are only suggestions, and are not meant to be comprehensive. I focus on the two mainstream platforms, Dell and Apple.
Main Options
The primary options are to choose between a laptop and a laptop + external monitor options The question is as to [...]
Posted in hardware, secondlife on Nov 17th, 2006
Many folks will be upgrading their hardware to get a crack at these emerging virtual worlds. Here are some options for further rumination. Laptop suggestions will be posted soon.
Desktop
Dell XPS 410
Select 2gb RAM, and either of the nVidia 7900 cards. Don’t worry too much about the processor differences (not worth price difference in my estimation), [...]
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