The High Fidelity website has a bunch of updates and new content in the wake of Philip Rosedale's new virtual world/VR platform launching in open Alpha a couple weeks ago -- including an introduction video featuring a fairly spooky-looking avatar:
Oculus Rift set-up is covered too:
Right now, the marketplace simply allows you to upload assets for a general audience that you want to freely share with everyone. Obviously, you need to fully own the rights to anything you upload to us. Also, assets need to be of good quality and generally useable by others. We’ll review submitted content as it is put up, and try to keep it a high-quality list. Long term, we see the marketplace as one of the key services that we can offer to be useful to creators of shared VR spaces. We will help make it easy to move digital goods safely and securely from one place or person to another, with a payment system when appropriate, and with features like tagging items to make it easy to see where something was bought, and systems for derivative payments to make it easy for people with different skills to re-mix and re-sell each other’s work.
Much more to watch on their YouTube channel and on the site.
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Unabashed fangrrrl. Yay! There is a vibrant, pioneering community here in HiFi. There may even be a solution to the "scaling problem" that hampered the growth of SL.
I remember when Nissan came in; I still have the car they gave me. They left once they realized that only 20 avatars on their sim created sludge lag.
Also, localized sound, and lifelike club sound environments for music, and it's still alpha.
Posted by: DrFran | Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 02:21 AM
Well i did sign in and will hope to check this weekend:)
Posted by: zz bottom | Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 05:55 AM
The male avie looks like a Michael 4 from Daz 3d
Posted by: jay | Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 03:55 PM
On alpha stage i do not expect much in terms of avatar customization, is still so early.
Posted by: zz bottom | Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 05:18 AM