Autumn Writers' Exhibition

The Autumn Writers' Exhibition opened in early October. This annual event is organized by Jilly Kidd and her group, Written Word.   Tents, huts and other spaces may still be available.  There's a 5000 Linden prize for the best display, a writing competition with prizes of 5000 Lindens  (see posters at AWE for details) and a week of events at the end of October. 

Policies: Exhibits must be writing-related.  Anything offered for sale must be writing or items that are (genuinely!) helpful to writers.  Authors can offer their own books for sale. However, the exhibit must be primarily a showcase for writing, rather than a commercial shopfront.

The recent unpleasantness about Builder Bot leads me to speculate about the effect of upcoming technical developments on the issue of copying in virtual reality.  OnLive, an impending development that I have been discussing in recent months, may have some implications in this matter. 

My article, VR in the Cloud, gives a summary of the discussion and links to previous articles. 

Overview of how OnLive will work

Connect to OnLive with your TV, PC or Mac and start a game.   The software and hardware you currently have on your powerful gaming computer will be running on a server farm somewhere.  Those are viewer servers, as distinguished from sim servers:

Sim server:  Virtual machine run by a grid operator such as Second Life or Rezzables.  Each server is associated with  a specific region on the grid.

Our previous episodes  described a new player the table, Onlive. 

• Future of SL is beyond e-tech. Now on to s-tech
• Future of SL Beyond e-tech (continued)

Onlive offers the prospect of a major change in the infrastructure used to deliver online games and the virtual reality that they live in.    In this episode, we examine the prospects for this change and some of the futures it may offer.

Recon Report

According to the Onlive website here is how you will use virtual reality (VR) environments in the future:   

Our previous episode described a new player the table, Onlive.  Onlive offers the prospect of a major change in the infrastructure used to deliver online games and the virtual reality that they live in.    This episode examines the prospects for this change and some of the futures it may offer.

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