Originally intended to replace the built-in browser in the viewer, the Shared Media Texture soon became so much more. Shared Media Textures, dubbed by users as Media Prims, allows a user to add a web page directly onto the face of a prim. It was introduced along with the Viewer2,…
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Intellectual Property laws and Virtual Worlds
Welcome to the Future of Virtual Worlds article series. In these articles, I will try to analyze all the things that speaks for and against the success of massive virtual worlds, such as Second Life and its future iteration, Project Sansar. Keep in mind as you read, that I am…
Read MoreHarbor Guide pt. 2 – Welcome to Freedom Harbor
You’re done with your starter area quests and you’ll finally get to explore the world. You visit the teleporter and gets sent to the hub where you’ll spend the majority of your downtime for the duration of the game. Welcome to Freedom Harbor! Freedom Harbor is your main hub for…
Read MoreMan Week – Jimi Lanley Experience
As one of the few REAL live bands in SL, The Jimi Lanley Experience blends live preformances in RL with the visual experience only SL can offer. Jimi wanted to bring his RL experience as a professional musician into Second Life and went on a hunt for an all-female backing…
Read MoreOther Worlds – Cloud Party
Since 2000, only a year after Second Life was first released, it’s main contender has been IMVU, another virtual 3D world that has been used mainly as a chat program with some added features. What if I told you there’s a world that mixes the social aspect of IMVU and…
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