A Virtual Conversation Overheard

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

MyHeritage: Celebrity Collage – Roots – Ancestors

The Guild – Do You Wanna Date My Avatar

A video for virtual world people by The Guild.

Tarsha – Second Life (Music Video)

Blue LInden posted a link to this video in Facebook. It’s not precisely my cup of tea but it mentions Second Life so I’m reposting it.

DLP® Interactive ProjectorTechnology…Coming to a Classroom Near You

This looks quite neat to me. I’d like to see what use it could be put to with virtual worlds and other 3D interactive applications.

Second Life Answers crashes my brower

I am sick and tired of trying to use the Second Life Answers site.  Sometimes it fails with a “Connection interrupted” message, other times it fails by crashing the browser.  It’s crashed my browser several times tonight.

Second Life Answers crashes browsers

It appears that LL is going to increase the amount of secondlife.com that uses the Jive software that produces this failure.  The various forms of failure that have happened to me and others at Second Life Answers are also occurring in the new dasheboard pages located at secondlife.com/my/account/

I am not pleased.

Yes Virginia, there are still Second Life Mentors

In response to a question in the Second Life forums, this is let the world know that there is indeed still a Linden Lab operated group called “Second Life Mentor” and there are still mentors. When an official mentor is “on duty” they should have their group title displayed as shown in the accompanying picture.

Hipihi next version preview video

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There’s a preview of some of the features of the next version of Hiphi at http://www.vimeo.com/4057576

The next version appears to have cars you can ride in and doors that move, among other nice things.

There are dark spells in the video, presumably the result of Hipihi’s rigid day-night cycle, which I’ve felt all along is a serious mistake, both for average users who want to see the world around them, but also for making videos. Machinimatography without control of the lights – yuch, bad decision, Hipihi.

It appears that land editing allows for making caves or something similar; either that or you can deform a prim’s mesh.

There are fluttering flags as well.

There’s rain – I hope, though I don’t know, that if there has to be rain, it won’t be rain that goes through objects. Better no rain than rain that goes through objects.

The video shows a nice shiny effect, I don’t know if that’s new or just not something I can see in the current version very well owing to my lousy video card.

I don’t have an ETA for this next version.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

オオカミとブタ。Stop motion with wolf, pig and 1300 pics.

I really like this video, so much in fact that I’ve promoted it on YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, orkut, and bebo, in addition to this blog post.

Novoking crash with d3dref9.dll message

I can now run the disco part of Novoking fine, but when I try to run the regular virtual world part of Novoking, the application hangs, around 10 per cent on the progress bar, and after a lengthy pause, I may get the error message shown in the picture below.

Novoking has worked properly up till the last week or so. I’ve not changed the computer hardware.

“d3dref9.dll” is a directx dll that is supposed to provide a software emulation of a 3D graphics processor for use in debugging.

I can’t read the error message, aside from the d3dref9.dll, and I can’t copy and paste the text to translate it.

I’ve spent hours now reading about d3dref9, and I can’t figure out why I should get this message or what to do about it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.