In what Linden Lab calls 15 updates for the 15th Birthday, they announced many things we oldies find familiar. Among the new things like real-world adjustments to the Day-&-Night Cycle and better filters for the Marketplace you’ll find things like themed Tutorial Islands that new players will start at. For…
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Project Sansar recruits clothiers from Second Life with free trial offer of popular 3D creation software
Linden Lab released a public version of Project Sansar some time ago and now they’ve teamed up with Marvelous Designer to try and recruit talented content creators from Second Life. Project Sansar works a lot like Second Life and Linden Lab has made sure that from a designer standpoint, there…
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Kultivate Spring 2017 Fashion Event – Second Life – Press Release
Kultivate Spring 2017 Fashion Event Dates: February 11 to 26, 2017 Slurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Water%20Haven/63/131/2802 Kultivate Magazine is pleased to announce it’s very first Spring Fashion Event! The Kultivate Spring 2017 Fashion Event will take place February 11 to 26, 2017. This event will feature over 50…
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Net Neutrality is at risk. Why is that bad? – Thoughts from the Cyberverse
Net Neutrality is a term that has been met with bored looks and shrugs for the past few years. It is a boring subject, but one that is extremely important for all users of the Internet, all over the world. The world’s most popular Internet highway is about to lose…
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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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Second Life News – Project Bento is now live
The long awaited update to the Second Life avatar skeleton, nicknamed Project Bento, has been in beta for over a year now. On the 5th of December this year, the project was finally pushed to the live version of the Second Life viewer. Project Bento offers additional bones to the…
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Third Party Viewers for Second Life – An updated look
It has been a while since we wrote about third party viewers here on The Torch. A lot of old ones have been updated and a few new ones have popped up. Here’s what’s on the menu at the moment. Alchemy Alchemy viewer has been around for about 2 years…
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Second Life, Second Chances – Bringing fun back to SL
Griffin and Justin McElroy co-star in the series Monster Factory, where they look at the character customization in different games and see how they can create the most monstrous of creatures the world has ever seen. One episode they found themselves in Second Life… That episode was titled “The Boy-Mayor of…
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CREATIONS FOR PARKINSON’S RED, WHITE, AND BLUE – Press Release
Creations For Parkinson’s, an official charity of The Michael J. Fox Foundation, is pleased to announce it’s very first annual Red, White, and Blue event! This event will take place from May 27, 2016 to June 6, 2016 and will include live djs, live performers, tribute concerts, an art…
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Second Life Residents Begin Prep for the Virtual World’s Anniversary
Many virtual spaces have anniversaries, but none have more user input and contributions than Second Life. The Linden Lab created Virtual World will have it’s 13th Anniversary in June 2016 and its residents have begun their preparations for the big celebrations. On their website they called for contributors such as sim builders,…
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