Inara Pey | Living in a Modem World – Second Life, virtual worlds and virtual reality
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As Inara Pey, I’ve been blogging about my SL times since the end of 2007. You’ll find a mix of news, reviews, commentary and opinions.
Inara Pey | Living in a Modem World – Second Life, virtual worlds and virtual reality
10h ago
Kerupa Flow returns to Nitroglobus Roof Gallery through April and early May 2024 with a new 2D and 3D art exhibition entitled Cage. I’ve followed Kerupa since 2015, and have always been fascinated by her art, incorporating as it just multiple techniques and approaches, with her work with a digital tablet and pen being particularly striking ..read more
Inara Pey | Living in a Modem World – Second Life, virtual worlds and virtual reality
1d ago
The following notes were taken from the Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 Simulator User Group (SUG) meeting. They form a summary of the items discussed, and are not intended to be a full transcript, and were taken from my chat log and the video by Pantera – my thanks to her as always for providing it ..read more
Inara Pey | Living in a Modem World – Second Life, virtual worlds and virtual reality
3d ago
Updates from the week through to Sunday, April 14th, 2024 This summary is generally published every Monday, and is a list of SL viewer / client releases (official and TPV) made during the previous week. When reading it, please note: It is based on my Current Viewer Releases Page, a list of all Second Life ..read more
Inara Pey | Living in a Modem World – Second Life, virtual worlds and virtual reality
3d ago
Jim Garand never fails to intrigue / please with his periodic re-designs of Grauland, his Homestead region. Since 2019 he has consistently offered environments for people to visit which have mixed themes and ideas in multiple ways – landscapes, art, architecture, history, mystery, science fiction, and so on. As such, it is always a pleasure ..read more
Inara Pey | Living in a Modem World – Second Life, virtual worlds and virtual reality
5d ago
The following notes were taken from my audio recording and chat log transcript of the Third-Party Viewer Developer (TPVD) meeting held on Friday, April 12th, 2024. My thanks as always to Pantera for recording the TPVD meeting and providing the video, which is embedded at the end of this article. The TPV Developer meeting provides ..read more
Inara Pey | Living in a Modem World – Second Life, virtual worlds and virtual reality
5d ago
It has been a couple of years since I had the opportunity to visit and write about an installation by Gem Preiz in Second Life – the last time being in 2022, when I reviewed Exoplanet: One Step Further. So it was with a degree of expectation that I dropped into Selen’s Gallery to visit Gem’s Do ..read more
Inara Pey | Living in a Modem World – Second Life, virtual worlds and virtual reality
6d ago
The following notes were taken from the Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 Combat User Group meeting (also referred to as the Combat Committee User Group or CCUG, an abbreviation also used by the Content Creation User Group, and which I’ll not be using in these summaries to reduce the risk of confusion between the two). They ..read more
Inara Pey | Living in a Modem World – Second Life, virtual worlds and virtual reality
6d ago
It had not been my intention to write about two locations designed by Yxes (Yxes Evergreen) practically back-to-back; however serendipity played a hand when, after writing about Memories of Dreams (see here for more), I was bimbling around south-western Heterocera (specifically along Mock Heather Road and trying to work out if it was part of ..read more
Inara Pey | Living in a Modem World – Second Life, virtual worlds and virtual reality
1w ago
Currently open through most of April 2024 at the Annex of Dido Haas’ Nitroglobus Roof Gallery is Event Horizons, a series of abstract art pieces by Kirjat Umarov. The title of the exhibition draws directly on the astrophysical phenomenon defining a boundary beyond which events cannot affect an observer. Coined in 1950 by the Austrian ..read more
Inara Pey | Living in a Modem World – Second Life, virtual worlds and virtual reality
1w ago
The following notes were taken from the Tuesday, April 9th, 2024 Simulator User Group (SUG) meeting. They form a summary of the items discussed, and are not intended to be a full transcript, and were taken from my chat log and the video by Pantera – my thanks to her as always for providing it ..read more