Alive in Baghdad – videoblog you must see

http://www.aliveinbaghdad.org/In their own words:

Alive in Baghdad employs Iraqi journalists to produce video packages each week about a variety of topics on daily life in Iraq. Through the work of a team of Americans and Iraqi correspondents on the ground, Alive in Baghdad shows the conflict through the voices of Iraqis. Alive in Baghdad brings testimonies from individual Iraqis, footage of daily life in Iraq, and short news segments from Iraq to you. 

 

This is cool…

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

 

 Every day we get a little closer to the mythic fully immersive 3D multiverse…

A better SL client?

http://viewer.onrez.com/

Made by the Electric Sheep Company (hopefully not the people that just got laid off…).  It was originally done to integrate with their CSI build, but has now gone non-themed.   

I’ve used it for a few hours now.  The UI is cleaned up a lot, but also a little more Fisher-Price (not in colors, but in that “bigger than it needs to be” way).  Most if not all the keyboard commands are the same, so that’s nice.

The biggest step forward is probably the integrated web-browser.  This strikes me as a big move to the future, where the 2D and 3D webs start to blend. And you can launch your link from the OnRez browser out to your standard desk-top browser if you want to or need to (the integrated browser is very lightweight at this time).

The only thing I don’t like is the lack of an integrated Communication pallet.  That was the single biggest improvement Linden has made to their viewer since I started using it.  The OnRez parts are better–they just need to be put together.

I also get more time out of my battery using OnRez vs. the official Linden client, indicating it is probably more tuned as well.  Lag, however, seems the same.

Any way, for those of you that spend any time in SL, I recommend at least checking it out.

Separation of Video Games and State

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