SL5B: Philip & M's Opening Keynote

To the Moon and Back

Visiting the Warrior

Well it is amazing what you can find in SL. So today I visited Mars... seriously :D

These places make SL worthwhile visiting for the creative experience and to see what can be done if the heart and not the wallet is involved.

Explorer Island makes you feel like a little Dora flying around, through the phantom landscape and of course snapshotting with your tiny virtual Kodak.

What you see here is the 1/3 scale of the Victoria crater, 3/3 would need 9 sims to build!?
It's done with sculpted prims, a friend explained me how they did it but yes indeed it was too much tech talk for little old me ;)

Nevertheless it's wonderful and these projects are one of the most valuable reasons of the virtual worlds' existence... at least something to think about and be inspired by.

No More Gambling

Second Life has decided to ban all gambling activities from its world. So now all casino's, sploders, etc. are no longer part of SL.

I went back for a minute to the Amsterdam Poker Palace where I used to host for a while, as you can see nothing is left there except some exchange machines, a board and the notice "land for rent".

It's totally silly, all those RL issues in SL, but I can understand their reasoning. On the other hand it's a big cut out of SL visitors, numbers have dropped and it can't be a good thing for the internal economy.