Panorama made with Hugin from 8 SL Screenshots,

Javascript renders one 2000×300 image into a 360 degree scrolling view

Crossing borders between different Virtual Worlds is the next big thing. (I tell ya!^^) While there will probably never be an archetyp Avatar, that bears all possible features of any imaginable VW, taking your N identity into the M world is increasingly important.

In their Blog, Linden Lab announced one more kludge to make that happen: Now with every Slurl you create, there comes a button to create an avatar on the fly, if you don’t have one yet. So, the route from any medium with http links (Websites or a Skype chat as in Torley’s example video) to Second Life is a known passage now.

While I seemed to be one of the first (mortal) users to have Second Lifeŧ Voice running on Linux, I usually don’t use it, and with the recent updates, it didn’t work anymore. Now here come 2 kludges to fix your Linux Voice with the current Clients:

1. Install a pulseaudio enabled libopenal. This may or may not be nessecary, depending on how recent your system is, it’s described here.
2. On systems that don’t have a power management enabled CPU, libvivox seems to bail out (Jira Entry). The fix is funny, you create your own “/proc/cpuinfo” in your secondlife-directory/lib, and change the lines starting with “power management:” to “power management: “. Note the gap.^^ Now you just “patch” the libvivox (with good old sed) to read from there, instead of the /proc interface.
3. Voila, I have a white dot over my head, and can see other people in the chatbox. Now I’ll run get some batteries for my Mic.

Cool findings, thanx to Peace Howlett and Xaden Kjeller!

That’s so cool. The last video I saw of this guy was making a head/vision tracking system, so you always see the right pseudo 3D vision of a virtual scene, no matter where you move your head.

And now this sooperkool multi finger tracking, as seen on Minority Report (which is maybe one of the very few movies where you can watch Mr. Zap-Oprah-Non-Anonymous without puking).

Aw-fscking-mazing!!1! (You can see all my youtube favourites here.)