Second Life - Outside in
A few of us have been exploring second life. I have a humble plot of land in the ‘metaverse’.
Being more techie than arty I have been exploring how to make the XMLRPC elements work, and seeing what potential there is in the scripting language that lives behind all these weird and wonderful objects.
The plan was to make a glowing orb respond to events outside second life. There seemed to be very few examples and lots of comments about things that did not work. However…… the orb on a stick in the right hand side of the picture is controlled by a form on a web page and some PHP.
So its state can be controlled by anyone accessing the page, rather than being actually in second life.
There is also some floating text (not shown) that hovers over the orb, the contents of this also comes from the standard HTML form.
The orb also emails a task ID I have elsewhere to tell me what the current message and state of the light is.
I believe that Linden Labs are looking at better ways for the objects to talk out of the ‘metaverse’ but for now it seems to work pretty well once you know the ID of the object you need to talk to.
April 9th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
[...] A lot of people at the little blue computer company I work for have gotten into Second Life in a big way over the last few weeks. Ian has been blogging about what he’s found, so I was feeling a little behind and I thought I’d try it out this weekend. [...]
January 7th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I was born on 5/11/06 and have been exploring the SL metaverse and been playing around with my appearance. I’ll be posting updates as I explore at my blog.
Areas of interest are
1. How could SL or similar metverse improve communication across Global Companies
2. How could SL or similar increase business value
3. Enjoy the whole experienc and meet the global community.
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:24 pm
[...] The article with Raph from Areae talking to Aleks Krotoski at Guardian Unlimited which I saw referenced over on 3pointd makes for interesting reading. Though we do not know what Areae will actually turn out as we know that its creators have quite a track record in MMO’s. Mark Wallace at 3pointd highlights the need for these various metaverses, as they appear, to be able to network with one another in the same way we have seen the rise of the web 2.0 api for people to mash into their own creations. The interconnected nature of the web can no longer sustain overly insular applications. The attraction into Second Life was pretty much cemented by the ability to get data in an out of the environment which then got a lot better with the implementation of http in LSL This is certainly of interest to us eightbar members here in Hursley which is the home of messaging. Also with Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) being a key design decision implemented throughout many new systems there is not reason to not apply this pattern to metaverses and creations within them. Even many of our buildings are using the SOA hub template that is populated with much more information on SOA over on our IBM islands in SL. Image from snapzilla [...]
November 26th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Good day
Have a look to a interesting video I made to show off the dervishs dance from the Guild Wars Nightfall party.
The dance the Dervish does is the same one that Christoper Walken did in the clip for Fatboy Slims’ - Weapon of choice music video (hence the music used)
What do you think about it?
Mine
youtube.com/watch?v=j_aONMdkzxU
Original for those that may not have seen it
youtube.com/watch?v=0WW8flwpH-Q
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