March 27, 2020 – Daniel Voyager

For anyone that missed that yesterday’s VWBPE 2020 Above the Book: What’s up at the Lab session here is the full video. Mal Burns interviews Ebbe Linden and Patch Linden. The session runs for one hour and 15 minutes.

Everyone should give it a watch and spread the word about this special session at VWBPE 2020.

Summary

Linden Lab have now introduced a limited time offer for education and non-profit organisations to get full regions. Reducing full region tier to US $99.00 per month
Linden Lab focus is transitioning the Second Life infrastructure to the cloud
Second Life is seeing a rise in concurrency and engagement
Last Changes is just a few weeks away from launching
IOS Mobile Companion is very close to Alpha status. Work has started for the Android version
Ebbe Altberg is 100% devoted to Second Life and Tilia

VWBPE 2020 runs until 28th March 2020.

According to the Second Life Grid Survey the maximum daily concurrency in #SecondLife reached 56, 148 on 22nd March 2020. The median daily concurrency average at the moment is around 42, 000. It’s getting a little higher every week but no huge peaks in the max daily concurrency yet due to the current Coronavirus crisis.

If things get worse in the next few weeks and months then I think the Second Life daily concurrency levels will go up due to the strict lockdowns across the world. If any new huge peak occurs soon then I will blog about it.