Second Life rendered in real life

[Via]

Rendering Weather in Second Life

Linden Labs announced they have acquired graphics technology from Windward Mark Interactive which will enable them to better simulate atmospheric conditions in Second Life. From Techcrunch:

WindLight uses algorithms that imitate the ways in which light is affected by real-world atmospheric factors like dust and moisture, enabling the nuances of sunlight, clouds, water and weather to be accurately simulated in real-time. Nimble uses advanced physics models to realistically simulate clouds.

[Link to SL announcement]

SecondLife's Right Wing Welcomes John Edwards With Giant, Obscenity-Spewing Feces

[Via|Link]

SecondLife Releases Source Code Under GPL

Boing Boing writes:

[I]t's not very meaningful to amass in-game wealth if your ability to use it is contingent on your ongoing good relations with a single company. What good is your wonderful Second Life real-estate, architecture, gadgets and wardrobe if Linden Labs can throw you out at any time? It's like amassing Soviet-era rubles -- you could only spend them in Russia.

But by opening up the source code for Second Life, Linden is inviting a competitive marketplace for Second Life hosters. Indeed, they describe a "Second Life grid" of multiple Second Life hosters who interconnect -- the way that today's Web consists of a single Web with millions of servers that are all linked together by their users.

Read all about it from: Boing Boing | the Second Life Blog