Archive for August, 2007

“Print” your avatar

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

As presented at this year’s Games Convention:

A company called Reality Service enables you to 3D-print your avatar. A special 3D-printer mixes plastic powders with up to 16 million colors and forms a multi-layered object.

The figure will be 20-25 cm high and also feature your SL name (if you wish). Sounds cool, doesn’t it?

Number of total residents breaks 9 Mio barrier

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Expected in September. Done in August: The total number of active resident accounts in Second Life breaks the 9 Mio barrier.
Interested in the latest stats? Take a closer look here.

Win the SL book

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

All readers have now the chance to win a copy of the recently pubished Second Life book by German Stern-Magazine’s editor Sven Stillich. All you habe to do is answer 3 questions.

Voice for everyone!

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Since August 2, everone can experience the beauty of the new SL voice funcionality within the standard client. The function is optional, yet lots of fun! Landlords can also decide wether or not they’ll allow voice chat on their islands (or in German: Inseln).

Download the open source code here. The voice FAQ can be found here.

second life faq