Second Life, Linden Lab & OpenSim News
Check out these historical cool maps of BURN2 and Burning Life in Second Life so far. It’s amazing how much its changed over the years inworld. 😀
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View my snapshots of BURN2 Press & Bloggers Day 2011
Today is BURN2 Press and Blogger Day 2011 where invited guests in Second Life can get a sneak preview of the sims before the official opening on 1st October 2011. The Burning Man regions will open today from 8:30am SLT to 8pm SLT. I applied for this press day for BURN2 earlier in September and I will be looking forward to the event later on today.
Scheduled Events
9:00 to 10:00 SLT Welcome Coffee: Center Camp
Meet BURN2 Core Team Leads, Builders, and Artists10:00 – 11:00 SLT Art Tours
Jump on an Art Tour bus!12:00 – 1:00 SLT Department of Mutant Vehicles tour
See DMV’s latest rides along with those of past years.1:00-4:00 SLT Roam the Playa
Many builds to see.4:00 – 5:00 SLT Art Tours
Jump on an Art Tour bus!5:00 – 6:00 SLT Party Center Camp, Hosted by the BURN2 Art Department
Meet Artists and BURN2 Builders6:30 – 7:00 SLT Lamplighters Procession
Drum with the LampLightersPlaya closes at 8:00pm slt
Welcome Gate Area
The Temple
The Man
The BURN2 calendar 2011 has been updated with the days and times for the burns this year. The Man and Temple will be set on fire to burn and it will be watched by a lot of avatars inworld. The burns are truly amazing!
Scheduled Days and Times
DAYS:
Sat, Oct 8,
Sun, Oct 9,
Mon, Oct 10,
BURNING OF THE MAN
Man Burn 1: Europe Burn
Gather: SLT, Sat, Oct 8, 11:00am
Burn: SLT, Sat, Oct 8, 11:30am
Man Burn 2: USA Burn
Gather: SLT, Sat, Oct 8, 7:00pm
Burn: SLT, Sat, Oct 8, 7:30pm
Man Burn 3: Aust/Asia Burn
Gather: SLT, Sun, Oct 9, 3:00am
Burn: SLT, Sun, Oct 9, 3:30am
BURNING OF THE TEMPLE
Temple Burn 1: Europe Burn
Gather: SLT, Sun, Oct 9, 11:00am
Burn: SLT, Sun, Oct 9, 11:30am
Temple Burn 2: USA Burn
Gather: SLT, Sun, Oct 9, 7:00pm
Burn: SLT, Sun, Oct 9, 7:30pm
Temple Burn 3: Aust/Asia Burn
Gather: SLT, Mon, Oct 10, 3:00am
Burn: SLT, Mon, Oct 10, 3:30am
My SL evolution has changed alot over the years and here are my favourite SL avatars from October 2006 (bottom) to 2011 (top) of the tower pile. I do love to change my avatar frequently and I’m sure many know that already. I love wearing cute and amazing avatars in Second Life than staying with a human form. This is a great project set up by Harper Beresford just recently.
Join Your SL Evolution group on Flickr and send snapshots of how you’ve changed over the years in SL.
My constant SL revolution is shown below and this trend will continue into the future I think…
Great news this week that ReactionGrid is now available on the Android Marketplace as a demo version. Search for “Jibe 3D MultiUser VirtualWorld” and try it out if you using a Android device. ReactionGrid is one of the OpenSim grids that “develops and hosts 3D virtual world platforms for metaverse events, corporate training, education and entertainment”.
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Today ReactionGrid hit a milestone in virtual world development. The first true mobile virtual world platform is available on the Android Marketplace in demo form. After we get feedback and refine the interface we will be scheduling some live concerts, brainstorming sessions and more. While it is a demo it is the full Jibe kit minus voice (for now).
We are also launching a publishing division of RG this month which can take your standard Jibe project kit and publish an Android and soon iOS version. We can also guide you through the process if you buy the Unity3D publishing application for Android and soon iOS.
This demo is a work in progress but running nicely enough to get some expanded feedback beyond our staff of testers. Some icons need to be enlarged for smaller screens along with numerous other tweaks we can already see. Please comment here or email us at create@reactiongrid.com with your feedback and ideas.
There are many great videos on YouTube highlighting the Burning Man festival in Second Life over the years. These are my favourite ones I have picked out to share with you. 🙂
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4 days and counting left until the grand opening of BURN2 (Burning Life) starts in Second Life. Events kick off at 12pm SLT on 1st October 2011 which I’m looking forward to. The sims will remain open until midnight (SLT) on 9th October 2011..so don’t forget to visit all the BURN2 builds this year.
Burn2 is community supported
BURN2 is an extension of the Burning Man festival and community into the world of Second Life. It is an officially sanctioned Burning Man regional event, and the only virtual world event out of more than 100 real world Regional groups, and the only Regional to burn the Man!
Burning Man regions snapshot taken at 1:48pm SLT today.
Check out my new BURN2 outfit look for 2011. I’m looking forward to greeting at the gates of BURN2 and making sure everyone is welcome. If you see me around feel free to give me a shout. 🙂
I’m really excited about BURN2 and you will probably have noticed my blog appearance has changed because of BURN2. I hope you like the new background and header images. I will be blogging about BURN2 along the way and you can expect many great snapshots from the event on my Flickr stream. Wooot – stay tuned!
BURN2 2011 Timeline
After 5pm SLT today the Help People Island owners stopped teleports to the region. There was a special tearful farewell party where many celebrated HPI achievements etc. I would say there was more than 30 avatars in the sim during the party until the end when everyone crashed. Sad day!
09.23.11
Hello all HPI Fans,
Sadly HPI closes today after many years of service in Second Life. With that in mind, we want all of you to have a place to reach out for help and to keep in touch, so we have created a new Group. Its called Helping Haven Fans, you can find this in search and join there or you can contact one of us to be added.
We would like to thank you for your support and hope to see you again and that you have a wonderful Second Life.
Aullere Ocello and Lily Swindlehurst.
Region map below: Today at 5:50pm SLT
This is a sad day for the Second Life community after having a presence in Second Life for six years. This is a big loss for the new resident experience and its a shame.
Today marks one week to go until the official BURN2 event opens in Second Life for 2011 and details have been released for the BURN2 press day this year which will be held on Thursday 29th September 2011 at 8:30am – 8pm SLT.
I have been to previous press days for many big events in Second Life and I have to say its great fun viewing the eye-catching builds. I strongly recommend you this event. 🙂
Press Release Full
Burn2, an officially recognized regional Burning Man event, opens to the public on October 1st
The Playa will be open to press and bloggers on September 29 from 8:30 am slt to 8:00pm SLT
You may view all the fantastic builds, take photos, try out the cars and bikes and hot air balloons and other interactive pieces.
How do you get to the Playa?
Apply for a press pass at http://burn2.org/presspass
Scheduled Events
9:00 to 10:00 SLT Welcome Coffee: Center Camp
Meet BURN2 Core Team Leads, Builders, and Artists10:00 – 11:00 SLT Art Tours
Jump on an Art Tour bus!12:00 – 1:00 SLT Department of Mutant Vehicles tour
See DMV’s latest rides along with those of past years.1:00-4:00 SLT Roam the Playa
Many builds to see.4:00 – 5:00 SLT Art Tours
Jump on an Art Tour bus!5:00 – 6:00 SLT Party Center Camp, Hosted by the BURN2 Art Department
Meet Artists and BURN2 Builders6:30 – 7:00 SLT Lamplighters Procession
Drum with the LampLightersPlaya closes at 8:00pm slt
We’d like to encourage you to use the following labels and hashtags when you write about the event: Burn2, #burn2 . We will promote those tags to make it easier for people to find your content
We hope to see you all on the playa that day and during the festival from October 1-9.
Landing SLURL/LM: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Burning%20Man-%20Deep%20Hole/113/84/24
Center Camp SLURL/LM http://slurl.com/secondlife/Burning%20Man-%20Silver%20Seed/38/5/24Want more information? Check out these resources
– Website: http://burn2.org
– Media Relations: http://burn2.org/media_relations
– Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/burn2/
– Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/BURN_two
– Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/burn2/
(must have Facebook account)Contact people:
Emcee Widget
Ronon Carver
Budster Bashley
Ladyslipper Constantine
Diana Renoir
Dmom2k DarwinMore information will be passed through the Burn2 Press Pass group
Daniel Voyager 
