At 2pm SLT today on Monday 6th October 2014 the recorded interview went live featuring Ebbe Altberg talking to Saffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin about Second Life/the new platform.
You can watch the full interview here and for some highlights see below on the things that I found most interesting during the 250th episode of Designing Worlds. This show runs for 1 hour/38 minutes/14 seconds!
Introductions
- Ebbe talks about his experiences since joining the Lab 9 months ago
- Ebbe joined the lab in February 2014
- The energy at the lab has gone up
- Wow factors: The communities, the variety, the interactions and user generated content
Updates
- Linden Lab are working improvements to avatars, clothing issues and solving bugs
- Second Life will be around for a very long time
- Feedback for Second Life will be made easier soon
- SL JIRA is back and it’s being monitored
- Linden Lab are working on Group Chat lag
- New projects rolling out within a month or so
- Second Names is high up on the list and no details on time-frame
- Linden Lab working on improving the meeting experience
New planned platform
- Progress is good, technologies starting to come together, working in a different way, about 4 months in
- 3 or so weeks away from reaching a milestone – 1st milestone will be the ability to import content
- Next milestone will be before the end of the year
- Alpha phrase will around mid 2015
- Ebbe is happy with the Test World – early stages
- It’s going to be a fun ride
SL Go
- Ebbe has played with SL Go and thinks its a good experience
- It’s a great solution
Daniel Voyager 