Thinking Outside of the Prim
Even as we gear up for the launch I just had my mind blown by something new in Second Life.
Koz Farina of blogHUD! fame sent me to this page. It’s live streaming video from Second Life. He’s doing it on his home computer and this is early alpha phase so it might go up or down at any moment.
This is the kind of thinking we need more of to bring SL forward. To innovate and improve and make the cross over easier for everyone to get involved.
And thank you to Koz for the phrase “thinking outside the prim.” I don’t know if he was the first *wink* to come up with it, but I love it.
October 27th, 2006 at 11:59 am |
lol I should continue playing my role of historian
Many moons ago, Linden Lab had a Video Linden avatar that would go around SL and the live video would be streamed to the secondlife.com homepage. It was neat, and tended to be a bit ridiculous as folks really aped it up for the camera in both funny and sometimes not so funny ways.
You’ll also dig one of our sheeplabs (our tech experimentation group for alpha-state projects) sites where you can not only get a flickr or video stream out of SL but move the avatar through a web interface.
http://www.destroytv.com
I don’t know whether the movement stuff is fully debugged yet. I’m trying to operate the website from the columbus airport and the movement buttons aren’t working for me right now, so I have a feeling there are kinks to be solved (hence it’s alpha-state sheeplabs lol).
October 27th, 2006 at 1:28 pm |
Giff, thanks for sharing that. I can’t wait to play with it and cool to know that this has been tried before. With such a huge world it’s hard to see everything
Looks like you have a new title!
October 30th, 2006 at 12:44 pm |
I am an uncomfortable historian, because I don’t like raining on people’s parades. That said, historical context can often be useful! I firmly believe that just because something isn’t brand spanking new doesn’t mean it should not be done, and improved upon! That’s the nature of innovation — some of the most powerful innovation is either competitive or incremental.
It’s also kind of funny because even two years ago people would announce — hey check this out! and Eggy Lippman (avatar name) would write: “good stuff — FYI so-and-so tried that back in beta.” The cry “everything was done in beta” became a running joke. It’s not terribly surprising — Second Life is such a creative engine, so many cool things are being tried all the time. It’s fantastic.