Review of the relatively new, LL “approved” SINGULARITY viewer for Second Life (and Open Sim). Singularity looks a lot like the old familiar LL viewers, but has TONS of features from other viewers. Welcome back, pie wheel, and hello new cool stuff!

often i get all laggy when anyone visits us in Enclave harbour. i chalked it up to OpenSim being alpha. who knows, it could be a number of factors – me, my broadband connection, the moon and the stars. i often crash and then have a hard time getting back to the sim i was [...]

i nearly dropped my teeth (where the heck did that expression ever come from?) when i saw this article and photo this looks exactly like the solar arrays DreamWalker and i built in our OpenSim Enclave Harbour! this has to be a standard looking solar dealio because i must have seen one and forgot about it when [...]

as you may know, my move from Second Life to OpenSim was more than just going to another world. it was also a shift in what i am doing in virtual worlds that’s an important consideration if you are also looking for additional worlds, or an alternative, to Second Life. with the ability to export [...]

Ener has always loved Zeppelin’s and airships and with Second Life it was possible to create them (even though Ener’s personal zepellin was a slow beast to fly, it was a lot of fun especially when you’d get stuck against a building). Airships of all types are widespread in Second Life and, until now, have been relegated [...]

Ener asked me to write a bit about what we are doing with Enclave Harbour in Reaction Grid. In thinking about this, I wanted to say that Second Life is still the best choice for many people and you can see that by number of active users and concurrency levels. OpenSim-based worlds are growing quickly [...]

just a build for a classroom space to seat 18. easy access by flying or have fun with the uber tight, nearly-impossible-to-cam spiral ramp (mouselook works well) since Enclave Harbour is all about environmental science (with plenty of earth, physical, and life science sprinkled in) why not have an  ”Organic” classroom? six neutrons, six protons, [...]

subQuark is busy writing an environmental science programme that will use virtual world content as educational activities. think of it like a field trip and inexpensive way for students to explore environmental issues. i say inexpensive because the latest craze in secondary education is all about 3D projectors and 3D content. 3D projectors are very expensive, [...]

a full day in 30 minute increments as a flickr slideshow – imprudence viewer in Enclave Harbour alpha of parasol (and evidently my body too!) and of the tree branches and even shadows on the parasol itself

hmm, we have always used blip.tv but youtube seems fine too (both are pretty compressed looking) it’s the same video, but now you have a choice! =) have fun in-world!

when i came across a beautifully done mangrove swamp on the iliveisl estate a year ago i was honestly stopped in my tracks (or, i should say, in my flying) the sense of proportion and balance just awed me. it reminded me of south florida and gave me a sense of calm as i became [...]

leaving second life was a huge change for me. from worrying about 60-100 residents, converting Lindens to dollars, and always having stuff to fuss with. i was in-world anywhere from 10 to 30 hours a week on top of a 40+ hour a week job and my blackberry constantly blinked with IMs forwarded from in-world issues “so and so [...]

woohoo! we hit 9000 flickr pics and 700 blog posts with our hydro-electric project so? well, that and a canadian quarter will let you play bar games for beers (but not buy the beers) =D while 9000 flickr pics of nothing but second life and reaction grid is a buttload of pics, Torley has 22,577 [...]

Enclave Harbour a a long way from being done and changes will happen (like deleting the conference centre) as subQuark gets deeper into writing his virtual world environmental science field trip activity books (oh Lord, that’s a mouthful!) =p but in the meantime, it is open to anyone wanting to explore and there are a [...]