CEO Rodvik Humble Shares What's New in Second Life
by Rodvik Linden on 10-03-2011 04:18 PM - last edited on 10-04-2011 03:54 PM by Linden Lab
Hello Everyone,
It’s been a little while since I last updated folks on Second Life.
Earlier this year, I noted several areas we would be focusing on. Let me update you on each area and share with you our plans for the remainder of the year.
But first, we’d like to give a warm welcome to our newbies! August was the biggest growth month for Second Life in nearly four years! I hope you all take the time to try out the many different activities in Second Life — there’s everything from clubbing to boating. You might even to want to try your hand at making something new. As a side note, one of the easiest ways to find new things is to check out the Destination Guide in the log-in screen of the viewer.
Now, back to our areas of focus at Linden Lab:
Usability
With the Basic mode, which we rapidly deployed, new users can now more easily find things, move around the world and manipulate the camera. This has really helped people walk and talk, as well as getting newbies up and running. But it has its limits — particularly when it comes to participating in the economy and creating things. Soon you will see us merge the Basic and Advanced modes, which will eliminate the need to switch. All functionality will be in one mode with easier-to-use controls. After these modes are merged and deployed, you can expect us to release an improved UI into the viewer. This should be a lot more flexible for user flow for all users.
Deploy Mesh
Thankfully, this massive feature got deployed on time. Many new creators joined Second Life so they can use their Mesh skills, and some of the creations I’ve seen are truly spectacular.
Improved Service
Although our response times have improved, we realize that we still have a ways to go. You can expect continued investment and focus in this area to include expanded support staffing, as well new features (similar to the estate tools we rolled out earlier this year) and revised policies to make the Second Life experience much better for customers.
Better Customer Value
Last month, we added exclusive Premium areas such as sandboxes (places where you can go and create), as well as free items. You can expect more exclusive areas, items and features in the months ahead. We have been really pleased by the positive response to Premium by our residents. In fact, last week we reached the highest number of Linden Homes ever. We hope these new Linden Home owners will enjoy their newfound land ownership and check out other ways that Land is available on the Second Life Land Store and through private estate purchases and rentals found through Second Life Search.
You can sign up for Premium right here!
Shiny New Things
Because worlds feel most vibrant when they are full of life, our next project for Second Life is the ability to make “life” within it. Second Life has more than a million real people in it every month, as well as many artificial creatures and people – however, our creation tools have not made it particularly easy for the content creators to build high-quality entities.
Over the next few months (with testing most likely starting in December), we will be rolling out a series of more advanced features. These will make the creation of artificial life and artificial people much smoother. For starters, we'll unveil a new, robust pathfinding system that will allow objects to intelligently navigate around the world avoiding obstacles. Imagine being able to create advanced pets, creatures or even a living town where non-player characters are walking about. Combined with the experience tools I mentioned above, it should soon be possible to create more advanced MMORPG’s or interactive experiences which use AI right within Second Life.
I will touch base again in a few months when we have delivered a few more things. Thank you again for being a customer! I hope you enjoy your time in Second Life, whether that has been for years or you have only just joined.
Rodvik
Quelle:
CEO Rodvik Humble Shares What's New in Second Life - Second Life
Kurz zusammengefasst in Deutsch:
Hier soll kurz berichtet werden was in letzter Zeit passiert ist, gleichzeitig sollen wir erfahren, was für den Rest des Jahres geplant ist.
Es werden die neuen User begrüsst und wir erfahren, dass im August das grösste Wachstum der letzten vier Jahre in SL stattfand.
Gebrauchsfähigkeit:
Hier wird der Basic Mode erwähnt, der eingeführt wurde und neuen Usern den Einstieg erleichtert haben soll. In Kürze sollen der Basic und der Advanced Mode zusammengeführt werden, was es dann unnötig machen soll zwischen den Viewern zu wechseln. Danach soll dann noch eine verbesserte UI für den Viewer erscheinen.
Einführung von Mesh:
Hier wird die Einführung von Mesh gelobt, welche viele neue User nach SL gebracht haben soll.
Verbesserter Service:
Es wird auf die Verbesserungen der Vergangenheit hingewiesen, gleichzeitig wird versprochen den Service weiter zu verbessern und das Personal aufzustocken. Weiter werden neue Tools versprochen, ähnlich denen der Estate Tools die heuer eingeführt wurden.
Besserer Kundennutzen:
Hier wird auf die Premium Sandboxen und auf die kostenlosen Artikel hingewiesen, die LL seinen Premium Usern zukommen ließ. Wir können künftig weitere Premium Areas, kostenlose Artikel und exklusive Features für Premium Mitglieder erwarten.
Glänzende neue Dinge:
Hier wird davon gesprochen, dass eines der nächsten Projekte sein wird, Euch die Möglichkeit zu geben "Leben" zu schaffen. In Second Life tummeln sich jeden Monat mehr als eine Million reale Personen denen man mit verbesserten Kreations Tools die Möglichkeiten an die Hand geben will, leichter kunstvolle Kreaturen zu erschaffen.
Über die nächsten Monate(die Tests beginnen vermutlich im Dezember), wird eine Reihe von fortgeschrittenen Features eingeführt. Damit soll es leichter werden, künstliches Leben und künstliche Personen zu erschaffen. Für Newbies soll es ein neues Navigationssystem durch SL geben, das helfen soll Hindernisse zu vermeiden.
In ein paar Monaten, wenn einige weitere neue Dinge erschienen sind will er sich wieder melden und Bericht erstatten. Er bedankt sich bei den Kunden, ob nun jahrelang dabei oder gerade dazu gestoßen.
by Rodvik Linden on 10-03-2011 04:18 PM - last edited on 10-04-2011 03:54 PM by Linden Lab
Hello Everyone,
It’s been a little while since I last updated folks on Second Life.
Earlier this year, I noted several areas we would be focusing on. Let me update you on each area and share with you our plans for the remainder of the year.
But first, we’d like to give a warm welcome to our newbies! August was the biggest growth month for Second Life in nearly four years! I hope you all take the time to try out the many different activities in Second Life — there’s everything from clubbing to boating. You might even to want to try your hand at making something new. As a side note, one of the easiest ways to find new things is to check out the Destination Guide in the log-in screen of the viewer.
Now, back to our areas of focus at Linden Lab:
Usability
With the Basic mode, which we rapidly deployed, new users can now more easily find things, move around the world and manipulate the camera. This has really helped people walk and talk, as well as getting newbies up and running. But it has its limits — particularly when it comes to participating in the economy and creating things. Soon you will see us merge the Basic and Advanced modes, which will eliminate the need to switch. All functionality will be in one mode with easier-to-use controls. After these modes are merged and deployed, you can expect us to release an improved UI into the viewer. This should be a lot more flexible for user flow for all users.
Deploy Mesh
Thankfully, this massive feature got deployed on time. Many new creators joined Second Life so they can use their Mesh skills, and some of the creations I’ve seen are truly spectacular.
Improved Service
Although our response times have improved, we realize that we still have a ways to go. You can expect continued investment and focus in this area to include expanded support staffing, as well new features (similar to the estate tools we rolled out earlier this year) and revised policies to make the Second Life experience much better for customers.
Better Customer Value
Last month, we added exclusive Premium areas such as sandboxes (places where you can go and create), as well as free items. You can expect more exclusive areas, items and features in the months ahead. We have been really pleased by the positive response to Premium by our residents. In fact, last week we reached the highest number of Linden Homes ever. We hope these new Linden Home owners will enjoy their newfound land ownership and check out other ways that Land is available on the Second Life Land Store and through private estate purchases and rentals found through Second Life Search.
You can sign up for Premium right here!
Shiny New Things
Because worlds feel most vibrant when they are full of life, our next project for Second Life is the ability to make “life” within it. Second Life has more than a million real people in it every month, as well as many artificial creatures and people – however, our creation tools have not made it particularly easy for the content creators to build high-quality entities.
Over the next few months (with testing most likely starting in December), we will be rolling out a series of more advanced features. These will make the creation of artificial life and artificial people much smoother. For starters, we'll unveil a new, robust pathfinding system that will allow objects to intelligently navigate around the world avoiding obstacles. Imagine being able to create advanced pets, creatures or even a living town where non-player characters are walking about. Combined with the experience tools I mentioned above, it should soon be possible to create more advanced MMORPG’s or interactive experiences which use AI right within Second Life.
I will touch base again in a few months when we have delivered a few more things. Thank you again for being a customer! I hope you enjoy your time in Second Life, whether that has been for years or you have only just joined.
Rodvik
Quelle:
CEO Rodvik Humble Shares What's New in Second Life - Second Life
Kurz zusammengefasst in Deutsch:
Hier soll kurz berichtet werden was in letzter Zeit passiert ist, gleichzeitig sollen wir erfahren, was für den Rest des Jahres geplant ist.
Es werden die neuen User begrüsst und wir erfahren, dass im August das grösste Wachstum der letzten vier Jahre in SL stattfand.
Gebrauchsfähigkeit:
Hier wird der Basic Mode erwähnt, der eingeführt wurde und neuen Usern den Einstieg erleichtert haben soll. In Kürze sollen der Basic und der Advanced Mode zusammengeführt werden, was es dann unnötig machen soll zwischen den Viewern zu wechseln. Danach soll dann noch eine verbesserte UI für den Viewer erscheinen.
Einführung von Mesh:
Hier wird die Einführung von Mesh gelobt, welche viele neue User nach SL gebracht haben soll.
Verbesserter Service:
Es wird auf die Verbesserungen der Vergangenheit hingewiesen, gleichzeitig wird versprochen den Service weiter zu verbessern und das Personal aufzustocken. Weiter werden neue Tools versprochen, ähnlich denen der Estate Tools die heuer eingeführt wurden.
Besserer Kundennutzen:
Hier wird auf die Premium Sandboxen und auf die kostenlosen Artikel hingewiesen, die LL seinen Premium Usern zukommen ließ. Wir können künftig weitere Premium Areas, kostenlose Artikel und exklusive Features für Premium Mitglieder erwarten.
Glänzende neue Dinge:
Hier wird davon gesprochen, dass eines der nächsten Projekte sein wird, Euch die Möglichkeit zu geben "Leben" zu schaffen. In Second Life tummeln sich jeden Monat mehr als eine Million reale Personen denen man mit verbesserten Kreations Tools die Möglichkeiten an die Hand geben will, leichter kunstvolle Kreaturen zu erschaffen.
Über die nächsten Monate(die Tests beginnen vermutlich im Dezember), wird eine Reihe von fortgeschrittenen Features eingeführt. Damit soll es leichter werden, künstliches Leben und künstliche Personen zu erschaffen. Für Newbies soll es ein neues Navigationssystem durch SL geben, das helfen soll Hindernisse zu vermeiden.
In ein paar Monaten, wenn einige weitere neue Dinge erschienen sind will er sich wieder melden und Bericht erstatten. Er bedankt sich bei den Kunden, ob nun jahrelang dabei oder gerade dazu gestoßen.