The SLENZ Update – No 114, July 15, 2009

SECOND LIFE BUILDING OPTION
Import builds from easy-to-create
Google Sketchup  3D models
… at a (very) small cost

A demonstration in real time (9 minutes without preparation) of
how a 70 metre square can be created in SketchUp (using the
Sketchlife extension) from 10 metre square tiles, textured
using a single texture image spreading over all
the 49 tiles, [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 105, June 29, 2009

ANOTHER TABLOID BLOG FRENZY
Hysteria over Australian SL-block
rumours:  fear-mongering or worse …
Looks like bulldust to me …
I haven’t commented on the latest round of histrionics and hysteria fomented by “tabloid” bloggers about the Australia moves … but as one of the most authoritative writers on virtual worlds,  James Wagner Au (pictured), has pointed out in [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 95, June 8, 2009

Teleporting between  Virtual Worlds
‘Seamless, intuitive and immediate’
travel  between OpenSims
The future  is here:  a seamless virtual world environment where one can teleport  transparently between any OpenSim virtual world  – no not SL yet but wait for it -  no matter what the OpenSim virtual world is and where in the real world it is mounted.
If it [...]

The SLENZ Update – No 21, November 02, 2008

How ‘real’ are VWs?
A research team, led by North Carolina State University’s Zelnak Professor of Marketing and Innovation, Dr Mitzi M. Montoya, has developed a new way of measuring how “real” online virtual worlds are – an important advance for the emerging technology that can be used to foster development of new training and collaboration [...]