As some of you may know, Facebook recently released their standalone game client, Gameroom. With it comes all the games you’ve previously played on Facebook, and more. With a more powerful game client, installed directly on your computer, with access to storage on your computer and a few other perks,…
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Virtual Reality Worlds topped by Rosedale… twice
Philip Rosedale, the founder of Linden Lab (that created Second Life), left his company a few years ago to form High Fidelity. The new company aims at creating a brand new virtual world, using future technologies and truly immersive Virtual Reality. Meanwhile, his former company is creating Sansar, a virtual…
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Skype, Microsoft servers and the issues these brings
Monday of this week (21 sep 2015) the global community saw a strange thing happen. Skype and several other services were acting really weird. On Skype, all your contacts would be listed as offline, but you could still message them or even call them. You would not be able to…
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Second Life Residents petition Zuckerberg over Facebook pages
Change.org hosts a Second Life petition aimed at the Facebook Creator Mark Zuckerberg, asking Facebook to allow Second Life avatars to have a page on the popular social networking website. The Petition named ‘Allow Second Life Avatars to have a Facebook Page’ states with the growing business within Second Life,…
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Virtual Reality: Around the corner or is it already here?
According to Wired, an online technology magazine, virtual reality is just around the corner. Young entrepreneur Mike Rothenberg urges the development of Virtual Spaces, with a strong belief that virtual worlds can benefit us on a much larger scale that they already has. Virtual Worlds like Second Life has already…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – CHEF
WARNING: FOR YOUR OWN GOOD DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT GO AND SEE CHEF ON AN EMPTY STOMACH! Jon Favreau is easily one of the most likeable guys working in Hollywood today. When it comes to filmmaking, he is a man that is often seen involved just as much behind the camera…
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Inspiring You ~ Part I
There are two things in-world that are most famous. One is fashion and the other is photography. Both can come either free or with a fee. Either ways, these both are loved by every resident in-world even if he or she denies it. Recently, I have developed a taste of…
Read MoreThe Torch Top 5 (Jan 6th 2014)
1) We Will Miss You Uncle Phil Actor James Avery, known for his role as Uncle Philip Banks on the show ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,’ passed away on January 1st 2014. He died from complications during open heart surgery in a Los Angeles Hospital. Avery was known for…
Read MoreThoughts from the Cyberverse: Jumping on the bandwagon
So… social media and nifty things you can do with it… I saw a friend of mine, who is an artist, starting to publishing his own cartoon series on Facebook. He had a fairly good depiction of himself in different weird or everyday situations, basically like a status update, but…
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Linden Lab Introduces Facebook SLShare.
Second Life creators Linden Lab have announced a new feature available to SL Residents. Second Life Share also known as SLShare gives you the ability to share pictures, locations and updates via Facebook without having to leave the virtual world. According to Linden Lab’s Post on the Community blog: “SLShare…
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