It is amazing.

It is amazing.

I have not had that much time to work on this thing. But now I pulled myself together and got it ready for some testing.

I have been using it myself for almost a year so I know that it works, The question is can others work with it as well.

Well we have to see. It is always difficult to get your baby´s out there.

Visited Fantasy fair and really thrown of the very good builds. Everything is very well done and imaginative. If you take away the shops it could be the backdrop of any game story. Of course the graphics are not optimized so frame rate in my Oculus could be low sometimes but the beauty of it all makes me live with the bad  frame rate. Here you can see what 10 years of developing can do when you get a good platform for creating stuff and a audience that follow what happens.

As I am back in the VR creation business after trying to retire this really made my day and looking good for the future.

Visited Cica´s new exhibition. I have to say she is productive and have developed a style of her own.

Moonlight is new at

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lost%20Isle/164/80/43

Well worth a visit but very crowded. Have no idea why people run in to me and do not chat. Maybe they are five years old.

But the island looks nice in a dreamy kind of way.

Landed and unloading at Odense. Nice weather and another flight for Sky Aurora. I like these short hops from Copenhagen. The BE20 works great in Virtual reality and is easwy to startup not taking forever to go thru checklist.

But i really need a way to get the checklist in to the Oculus. Havent found a way for that yet. So small planes it is.

After trying to get my grid to work. Most done but cant walk between regions. Teleport works.Strange.

Anyway did some hypergrid jumping this late Friday. Really like i can go from my own grid to any hypergid i want. Saves time no need for these logins everywhere.

Great Canadian grid been around for a while. http://login.greatcanadiangrid.ca:8002/. I often meet some nice people but not today. Very empty only a few bots.I was hunting for some nice builds.Checked out Misery.

Some kind of role-play sex thing but very nice built. There are many nice builds now in Opensim and i think there will be more as SL gets smaller.

Dystopic and very big build. Could be nice to visit. Was a little bit afraid i should meet anyone. But that is a thing with us Starfleet explorers. We do what we have to.

Simulator flying have been somewhat low during the winter due to work and stuff. But now spring is here and i am visiting the virtual skies all the time. Focus these days are on the virtual pilot flying. Trying to get to Privat pilot at IVAO. Sorry to say i did not make the theoretical exam. Have to read more the next time. Been lazy.

The big simulator have been sitting in the old stable all winter and it is to cold to build.

But now it is getting warm and it is time to start to build again. Because the simulator have been down there have not been much flying big planes in Scandinavian VA.

But i have found a new virtual airline.

Short flights in Denmark with my Beechcraft 200. It is perfect for real virtual flight in the Oculus rift. I now start to get the difficulties in Oculus flying and the new update on Flyinside is really great. Feel like a pilot.

Today I did a test on Euro truck 2 Multiplayer. Lots of fun driving and many people online. But I can tell you people are not nice. Well a few guys when driving on the highways with a trailer did some friendly honking. Looks like there are two types of people online. The ones that are there for some serious transporting and a lot of a..holes that just grief. Well what else is new.

I will go back. I liked it and I only have to understand how voice works and I can call people idiots. Want a finger animation too.

To be honest I have not been around Second life much the last year. My 2worlds2go virtual company have been doing other stuff and I have a art and design company in RL that takes up my time.

I try to get inworld and check out some new place everyday but it is often only for fifteen minutes and then I have to do other stuff again. So today I decided to read and look at video and try to get updated on the world again.

So I went inworld to play some games and see if things have changed. After a few hours and stuck in a maze I think Second life is really well and will be around for a long time. More stable and a lot of new functions to build new experiences. I have done some driving and it is soon at the same level as it was when I first came to SL. Strange nothing can be done about this.

I have been testing a lot of new software the last months and I think I know why Second life will be around.

1: Content. There are some many talented creators and the new places are really good. When you see them thru the Oculus Rift you are amazed. No place have so much content as Second life. You can buy almost anything your avatar needs. No other world comes even close. Does Linden lab really think people will start all over again.

2: The tools are easy to use. Anybody can get in to creating. I was wrong about mesh. It looks great but make less people get in to virtual designs.

3: Standardization. You have a basic avatar that can be modified as you like. This makes it so much easier for content creators to do add-ons and clothes. Yes you can look like anything but people tend to look pretty much the same with a few personal alterations. If i buy a mesh avatar there will be others that look the same. We do not like that.

4: It is a world. You can walk on the continents. There are city's and beaches but it have the feel of a complete world. Yes you can fly, I think that’s overrated by the way, and teleport but the world is a place you understand. The most successful games and worlds looks close to RL. In WOW there is magic and monsters but the world is much like ours. It have also been around for a long time. Look at Active worlds, Blue Mars and Cloud party. Nice ideas but not worlds I want to spend a lot of time in.

5: People wants to have fun not be sys admins and run servers. This is why I think that Opensim and High fidelity got it wrong. I will pay to not run servers on my spare time I just want to go inworld and not care about the tech. There is money here.

If Linden lab is going to have any success with the new world they have to do some pretty amazing stuff. High Fidelity is far away from creating a world that is a contender. Opensim needs a central company to bind all the grids together. Unfortunately hypergrid is not enough.

No Second life is in good shape and that’s good news.

Got the server up and made some stuff and uploaded it to the my 2worlds2go place. Works fine. What I really like is the possibility to use several servers for the content. That’s a great idea. Makes thing scalable.

Also got sound to work after some searching on the forums and the Oculus works right out of the box.

What High Fidelity is creating is a platform as I see it. And the other developers will come in and make it in to something new. It is far from as ready as Opensim and there are a lot of work to do. I think maybe there will be many spin off effects that will find its way in to Opensim and the new Second life. Because there are so many good ideas.

But this is a developer platform not something ready for users so Second life and Opensim will live on for a long time yet.

I love to go by train. Not only simulated ones. I just had to try out the Caledon run. Caledon Kittiwickshire to Caledon Tamrannoch. It runs every hour and takes around 20 minutes.

A blimp in Caledon.

The servers really startup nice now so the train ride went very well and it is slow enough to let you see a lot of the beautiful Caledon landscape. The train does not go in a straight line. Nice that is possible. So it is very scenic.

I liked the tunnels and the big station in Victoria city.

I wish I had a Oculus Rift and some wind in my hair and it would have been perfect.

Nice to see that you can do some fun stuff in SL. Next thing is to fix the physics engine the ride resembles a Commodore 64, no you could actually do better rides on that one.

But I think maybe SL is on the right track. (Some train humor).

Ride starts here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Kittiwickshire/56/213/24

Finally I have had some time to get the devgrid up and running again. I have had a lot of art related work to do the last months and I have also been exploring new community's like the Flight simulator guys. I suppose they do thousands of flights every day and are a great example on how virtual life really can expand your mind and life.

I do some flying for Scandinavian VA. (virtual airline).

The Fly guys have made me believe in the future of virtual worlds now when Second life getting smaller and smaller. I have also been to There world and it is nothing like it used to be but more and more people find the way in to it.

The big thing is of course Facebook buying Oculus. I am not so sure this is such a great idea. I feel like the developers on Oculus know something I do not. Maybe the thing is not usable. But I have to buy a Rift devkit sooner or later just to find out.

I have been very busy but know I find that it have been a good thing to take a break from Opensim and SL. I have a lot of new ideas and as I am a virtual pilot I do not have to focus on finding scripts to my SL vehicles anymore.

My gallery and devgrid needs me. Nice to be back.

It is a lot of fun to fly on Vatsim as Virtual pilot. You get to do flights that you never would thought of. I take a look in the timetable and find new places to go. On the six flights I have made until now, three of them have been to totally new airports I never been to before. And the software records my landing statistics and I find that my passengers have a rough ride. Not dangerous, just a little bit unpleasant.

I have to work on my approach. Landings are ok.

I love these very dark and very well made pictures. SL really have it´s own type of art and photographers.

It is just great work.

Visit the gallery.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tabula%20rasa/129/77/27

The Flickr stream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessica-sl/

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Why have a mag if you cant promote stuff.

Textures as art at the Nilsart gallery.

And you can get more info on the homepage.

http://www.nilsart.net/index.php/122-textures-as-art-exhibition

You also find a link to the exhibition here.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ars%20Lunga/44/7/32

It just started out with me wanting here to slowly look in to the camera and I wanted a face that was different and not to symmetric. Really a simple job but when you get hooked on something you really just keep on going.

I think that’s what creativity is. Continue to work until you find some kind of hook or something to work on. Now I have a lot of material. Develop it further or stop?

Move on to something else or this could be the thing.

It is funny how a very small thing can lead in new directions. It is what gets me up in the morning. Not knowing what's next.

It just started out with me wanting here to slowly look in to the camera and I wanted a face that was different and not to symmetric. Really a simple job but when you get hooked on something you really just keep on going.

I think that’s what creativity is. Continue to work until you find some kind of hook or something to work on. Now I have a lot of material. Develop it further or stop?

Move on to something else or this could be the thing.

It is funny how a very small thing can lead in new directions. It is what gets me up in the morning. Not knowing what's next.

The portal to ghost town and the road are finished. Need to do a prim count. I do not think I can get everything in to the sim as I want but I have my own kingdom.

Lendonia is a tribute to my mother. It comes from here name Lena. God I am bright. LOL

The big wall is finished and now I have to build the city behind it. Work,,,,

More about the exhibition coming later right now it is TGIF.