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Dear friends of SL'ang Life magazine ! ! !

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:12 +0000

Dear friends of SL'ang Life magazine,

We're very sad to announce that our investor resigned from financing the magazine. In these circumstances we are forced to suspend magazine activity until we find a new investor.

We would like to warmly thank all of you for being with us for the last 6 months, both as our readers and the community visiting our island. Working for you was a great pleasure and an amazing adventure.

We would like to bid good-bye with you properly. That's why we invite you for the last concert on SLang Life island - 10 July 2008 at 10 AM (SLT).

Thank you once again,
SL'ang Life team

Historic teleportation: One small step for Ruth

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:35 +0000

According to Zha Ewry, at 11AM SLT (US Pacific time), Zha Ewry, Layla Linden and Tess Linden completed a successful cross domain teleport from the Second Life Aditi (preview) grid to an OpenSim simulator, essentially a teleport of the agents from one virtual world to another, and the first demonstrable step in cross-virtual-world interoperability.

No avatars or assets were transferred, so everyone arrived as Ruth (the generic, default avatar). Only the agents made the cross-grid jump as there is no current support for transferring anything else, but this is a huge step forward in the Agent Domain login prototypes. In a sense, it's the virtual world equivalent of the first Moon landing.

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Sources:
http://www.massively.com/2008/06/06/historic-teleportation-one-small-step-for-ruth/
http://zhaewry.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/happy-jumpy-ruths-interop-takes-a-step/

New default avatars!

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:44 +0000

How often do you check your Library folder for new items? If you do it regularly, you probably have noticed by now there are new default avatars available.

As Torley Linden says, Linden Lab is going to refresh the default avatar selection.

You can show which of the new avatars you like the best by completing the unofficial survey run by Torley, available here: http://secondlife.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_aWpZv5qOoKUbbow&SVID=Prod

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Source: http://torley.com/do-these-avatars-rock-suck-other-you-be-the-judge

Second Life 5th Birthday Celebration

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05 +0000

Each year, on the date that Second Life came out of beta (June 23rd 2003), Residents and Lindens have gathered to celebrate the amazing world we’ve been creating. This June 23rd, SL community marks its Fifth Birthday, and the volunteer Birthday Team (who has been planning this party since last year) picked a theme that will be hard to resist – "Celebrating the cultural diversity of Second Life".

If you're interested in having an exhibit at this year's event, go to slbirthday.info/signup - registration ends on Sunday 25th of May.

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Sources:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/05/20/calling-all-cultures-to-the-second-life-5th-birthday-celebration/
http://sl5b.blip.tv/file/915709/
http://slbirthday.info/

Basic voice lipsync in SL

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:55 +0000

The ability for an avatar’s mouth / lips to sync with their speech has been something sought for years and there’s some light on the horizon on the Second Life front. Massively’s Tateru Nino has discovered lip sync is on the way.

Bridie Linden has updated the development roadmap for upcoming releases. The map is a bit tangled, with a commingling of server-side and viewer-side changes kind of munged together, but there's a new feature in the long, long list of bugfixes and bughunting tweaks: New feature: VWR-4794: Basic voice lipsync for voice visualization. Now that's going to be interesting.

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Sources:
http://www.metaversejournal.com/2008/05/15/virtual-lips-and-law-enforcement/
http://www.massively.com/2008/05/14/viewer-1-20rc7-simulator-1-22-expected-to-see-light-next-week/