Tag: Lab Gab

Friday, May 6th saw the third in the Lab Chat series take place in-world, featuring guests Oz Linden, the Director of Second Life Engineering, Troy Linden, a Senior Producer of Second Life and of course, Linden Lab CEO, Ebbe Altberg, in his alter-ego of Ebbe Linden.

The session focused on a mix of questions submitted to an official forum thread ahead of the event, and questions taken directly from the audience, and this transcripts offers a breakdown of the questions asked and answers given.

Please note that in places the audio presented has been edited to remove asides, repetition or removed inaudible elements, and so may differ in length and content to the official recordings made of the session. However, no attempt has been made to alter the content or context of the answers supplied by Ebbe, Oz and Troy.

For ease of reference, the session has been split into two parts, and the following Quick links will take readers to any specific topics of interest to them, and further topics can be navigated to by either returning to this page, or using the Quick Links summaries provided within the Bento / Second Life and Project Sansar pages.

• Project Bento
  • Poses and Animations with Bento
    • In-world Tools for Pose and Animation Creation
    • Will Bento Allow Independent Joint Animation / Posing?
  • Incorporating Bento Facial Capabilities into the System Avatar
  • Animated Mesh
  • Scripting Bento Bones
  • Bento Meeting Times
• Second Life
  • Tools for Managing Inventory
  • New Social Islands
  • Second Life Gift Cards
  • Viewer Photography Tools
  • Sound File Length and Animation File Size
  • Texureable Object Faces
  • Region Buy-down And Mainland Incentives
  • Vehicles, Bandwidth and Throttling
  • RLV and the Official Viewer
  • Second Life Experiences
  • Search – Experiences, Marketplace & In-world
  • Marketplace Listing Enhancement Issues
  • Allowing More Estate Managers
  • Reporting Group Spamners
  • Lab Staff Using SL
  • Vulkan Graphics Support for SL
  • Linden Realms Updates
• Project Sansar
  • How Many Avatars Will a Single Instance of Sansar Support?
  • Graphics Requirements
  • NPCs in Sansar
  • Functionality and Capabilities in Sansar
  • Sansar Terms of Service
  • Names and Identity in Sansar
    • Reserving Second Life Names in Sansar
    • Real Names and Pseudonyms
    • Roles and Personas
    • Facebook Log-in
  • Acceptance into Creator Preview
  • Sansar Payment Options
  • Cost of Owning Space in Sansar
  • Mac Users and Sansar

 

 

Update Wednesday, January 27th: The official Lab Chat #2 video is now on-line, and is embedded at the end of this article.

Thursday, January 21st saw the  second in a series of discussions called Lab Chat, billed as “an opportunity for you to ask Lindens your questions during a live taping that will be recorded and archived for everyone to view.”

As with the first show, the session featured the Lab’s CEO, Ebbe Altberg in his alter ego of Ebbe Linden. In preparation for the recording, Second Life users were invited to ask questions about the Lab, Second Life, “Project Sansar”, etc on a forum thread.

Over 80 questions were asked, all of which were reviewed by the Lab Chat production team, and from which the list of question to put to Ebbe was drawn. The questions select were those the production team thought would be of most interest to the attending audience, or represented those questions which were asked multiple times by different people.

The following pages offer a transcript of the show’s recording session, which has been split into three parts:

• Those questions and answers those related to Second Life
• Those focused more on Project Sansar
• Additional questions & audience Q&A.

The first two sections are presented in chronological order – as the questions were asked during the recording of the show. The additional questions have been grouped together (where possible) by subject matter, for ease of reference.

The Quick Links below will take you directly to each of these three sections, or to any of the individual discussion points within them. Each question / answer includes an audio extract of that question and response for those who wish to listen rather than read.

Quick Links

Concerning Second Life

• Project Bento
• In-world Grid Status Notifications
• Credit Processing

Concerning Sansar

• Sansar: Live or visit?
• The Sansar Avatar
  • Avatar Appearance
  • Avatar Inventory
• Content Building
  • In-world Tools
  • Terrain (Land) Editing Tools
  • Sansar Workflows
• Approximate Sansar Time Frames

Additional Questions

• Sansar Maps and Web Pages and Second Life Surls
  • More on Sansar Web Pages
• Education and Business in Second Life and Sansar
  • Attracting Businesses into Sansar
• Sansar and Art
• Aviation, Sailing and Racing in Sansar
• Databases, Permissions and Experience Creation
• Sansar, Oculus Rift and VR
  • Other VR Integration with Sansar
• Sansar on Linux
• Sansar Accessibility for the Impaired
• Sansar Scripting API Support
• Sansar and Griefing and Trolling
• Sansar Alpha / Beta Testing Requests

Closing Comments

Note: this is not a transcript of the entire recording session. The focus is on the questions asked and responses given. Also, the audio extracts are from a recording which was cleaned-up following the show to remove repetitions, pauses, trailing comments which otherwise break the flow / context of replies. However, no attempt has been made to editorialise or in any way alter the context of any response given to questions.

Thursday, November 19th saw the launch of what is hoped will become a new series of monthly discussions. Lab Chat is billed as “an opportunity for you to ask Lindens your questions during a live taping that will be recorded and archived for everyone to view.”

The first show featured the Lab’s CEO, Ebbe Altberg in his alter ego of Ebbe Linden. In preparation for the recording, Second Life users were invited to ask questions about the Lab, Second Life, “Project Sansar”, etc on a forum thread.

Over 40 questions were asked, and members of the production crew selected seven questions they thought would be of most interest to the attending audience, to be asked during the show, whist also leaving time for further questions from the audience itself.  Discussions are under way with the Lab to try to ensure those questions from the forum thread which weren’t asked as a part of the recording do get addressed in some manner.

The following pages present a transcript of Ebbe Altberg’s replies to both the seven core questions selected by the Lab Chat team, together with any additional follow-ups or observations from show hosts Saffia Widdershins (SW) and Jo Yardley (JY), and the answers given to those questions raised during the open Q&A session.

Note that this is not a full transcript of the entire recording, the focus is very much on the answers given to questions and any relevant comments. For ease of reference, the transcript is split into three parts, each with its own navigation and links, and links to all of the questions:

• Those questions and answers those related to Second Life
• Those focused more on Project Sansar
• The general Q&A session.

Each question / answer includes an audio extract of that question and answer for those who wish to listen rather than read, or in addition to reading, the transcript text.

The Quick Links section below will take you directly to each of these three sections, or to any of the individual discussion points within them.

Those wishing to watch the official video, can see the three parts here, here, and here.

Quick Links

• Concerning Second Life
  • Second Life land and tier
  • Bringing users into Second Life
  • The Gateway Programme
  • The Marketplace and Marketplace Beta
  • Mainland Abandoned Land
• Concerning Project Sansar
  • Project Sansar and Second Life
  • Keeping people informed about Project Sansar
  • Project Sansar, Hypergriding and Maps
  • Project Sansar, Metaphors and “Experience”
  • The Approach to Content Creation
• General Q&A
  • Advertising and marketing Second Life and Sansar
  • Naming Project Sansar
  • Sansar Scripting Language and Tools to Promote Experiences
  • Why can’t we have mirrors in Second Life, and will Sansar have mirrors?
  • How will IP and copyright infringements be handled in Sansar, and will the Lab get tougher on infringers in SL?
  • Encouraging Sl content creators to engage in Project Sansar
  • Will it be possible to do voice and text chat simultaneously in Sansar
  • Building Communities in Project Sansar
  • Project Sansar Personas
  • Using VR headsets