Second Life for Mac
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Second Life overview
Second Life is a 3D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively, and today is inhabited by a total of 5,145,919 people from around the globe.
From the moment you enter the World you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences, and opportunity. Once you've explored a bit, perhaps you'll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business. You'll also be surrounded by the creations of your fellow residents. Because residents retain the rights to their digital creations, they can buy, sell, and trade with other residents.
The Marketplace currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the in-world unit-of-trade, the Linden dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several thriving online Linden Dollar exchanges.
What’s new in version 7.1.8.9375512768
Resolved Issues
- viewer#679 Add mirrors tickbox to build tools
- viewer#682 Mirrors optimization pass
- viewer#684 Fix pixelation on mirrors when RenderHeroProbeResolution is set to 1024
- viewer#712 PBR Terrain UI second pass
- viewer#711 Terrain graphics feature gating
- viewer#731 [PBR] Environment: Blue Density Input Color Yields Incorrect Sky Color when Set to [0,0,0]
- viewer#732 Alpha blend textures can disappear with certain EEP setting
- viewer#733 Particles become black with certain EEP setting
- viewer#740 Add support for FLAG_MIRROR on reflection probes in the viewer.
- viewer#759 2k texture PBR terrain does not render on the minimap
- viewer#760 2k textures cannot be used as terrain (non-PBR)
- viewer#764 Full Magenta screen after continuous zooming
- viewer#771 Put PBR material swatch behind feature flag
- viewer#773 Fix PBR terrain feature flag
- viewer#782 Regression: grass is visible through a sign
- viewer#886 Crash on teleport to Rumpus Room 2048
- viewer#854 [PBR] EEP Settings not updating correctly when using scripts - missing some parameter
- viewer#860 Verify 16x antialiasing works.
- viewer#965 EEP skies too bright after HDRI local preview merge
- viewer#977 Featurettes viewer does not start on Mac
- viewer#988 Ensure that terrain UI is still usable when the language is not English and the PBR terrain feature flag is unset
- viewer#1027 Transparent PBR terrain has noise on minimap
- viewer#1046 Auto-exposure quality pass
- viewer#1051 Fix UI typos in PBR terrain error messages
- viewer#1059 Mirrors should be disabled when Graphics setting is set to Low
- viewer#1081 Display Proper Pricing for new 2k Texture uploads
- viewer#1163 Terrain textures are not free. Discard them when done.
- viewer#1139 Lighting seems okay until camera is moved then it's complete darkness...
- viewer#1165 Underwater mirror only displays objects and users that touch the surface of the water
- viewer#1184 Cached minimap textures still using extra memory/loading still not reliable
- viewer#1185 Mirror resolution does not change without a restart.
- viewer#1191 Add mirrors settings to Advanced Graphics Settings
- viewer#1220 Bug in XMLPRC to LLSD parsing caused issues with LLSD arrays
- viewer#1267 Material with a Masked alpha texture applied to an object makes it completely transparent
- viewer#1271 Add support for mirrors that don't render avatars.
- viewer#1298 Mirrors are offset on build 7.1.6.8757451456
- viewer#1325 Material overrides are occasionally not loading.
- viewer#1370 Mirrors cause 100% GPU utilization in empty scenes when enabled
- viewer#1382 [Featurettes] Occlusion Channel of ORM Maps Being Dropped on glTF Material Upload
- viewer#1466 Haze is missing from some EEP settings in Featurettes viewer
- viewer#1474 Remove offset at region edge for PBR terrain
- viewer#1494 Mirrors stops updating when the camera is pointed down a little.
- viewer#1531 BugSplat Crash: SecondLifeViewer!LLRender::flush(1634)
- viewer#1501 Crash initializing screenSpaceReflUtil.glsl
- viewer#1568 All avatars using base are sunken in floor
- viewer#1581 Assert failure in featurettes branch on OpenGL 3.2
- viewer#1614 PBR materials exhibit striation/moiré-patterns in specular highlights
- viewer#1628 Sphere mirror reflections should not flicker
- viewer#989 [Featurettes] Terrain is blurry on Mac M1
- viewer-private#41 A no-modify material can block applying a texture to all other faces when applied with shift-drag
- viewer-private#130 [Aditi] FPS is lower than on release when 'PBR Metallic Roughness' Terrain Materials are applied to region terrain
- viewer-private#138 fix advanced graphics preferences UI layout
- viewer-private#141 Disallow alpha from texture terrain where not supported
- viewer-private#145 PBR Terrain UI: "Texture Elevation Ranges" text should be, "Material Elevation Ranges" when terrain is material
- viewer-private#151 Improve PBR terrain loading robustness
- viewer-private#173 Add PBR terrain normal gen feature flag
- viewer-private#177 PBR swatches in build floater should show entire material
- viewer-private#181 Put GLTF terrain behind a debug setting that defaults to off
- viewer-private#227 The moon texture is displayed darker in the world sky
- viewer-private#236 Unable to delete folders from 'Marketplace listings' floater
- jira-archive-internal#71146 [SL-20754] Blue sheen / tint on objects with gLTF materials
- jira-archive-internal#71139 [SL-20748] Materials cannot be previewed on an object from the Library.
- jira-archive-internal#71056 [SL-20675] [PBR] Materials can be copied with full permissions from objects that have limited permissions
- jira-archive-internal#71062 [SL-20680] [PBR] Non-transparent water stops animations and input from working properly
- jira-archive-internal#71089 [SL-20701] Build tool texture tab shows incorrect material parameters in some cases
- jira-archive-internal#71090 [SL-20702] Remove ALM info in About
- jira-archive-internal#71091 [SL-20703] [PBR] Masked alpha gradient textures change with viewing angle.
- jira-archive-internal#71092 [SL-20704] [PBR] Pathfinding view/test modes fail to render
- jira-archive-internal#71106 [SL-20717] Add PBR to Advanced > Rendering Types, so it can be turned off.
- jira-archive-internal#71125 [SL-20734] Uploaded Materials should use the Default Creation Permissions for Uploads.
- jira-archive-internal#71010 [SL-20634] Alpha values cannot be adjusted for alpha blended materials
- jira-archive-internal#71003 [SL-20629] Old sky settings set reflection probe ambiance to zero with HDR scale enabled
- jira-archive-internal#71006 [SL-20630] Probes render black upon high glow focus and size
- jira-archive-internal#70354 [SL-20008] Auto-exposure is quite sensitive.
- jira-archive-internal#69880 [SL-19546] [7.0.0.576966 GLTF/PBR] - "Select Only My Objects" Disables Interaction
- jira-archive-internal#69889 [SL-19555] The new materials without textures aren't set to the object as PBR material
- jira-archive-internal#69552 [SL-19249] PBR: Sheen does not respect roughness map
- jira-archive-internal#69571 [SL-19267] [PBR] Mesh Uploader Preview for Avatar DAE is Scrunched up Cube
- jira-archive-internal#67137 [SL-17005] "Bias" value is forcing textures to downres
- jira-archive-internal#68658 [SL-18429] Colors in SL and Painter do not match with full roughness, full metallic
- jira-archive-internal#71105 [SL-20716] BugSplat Crash: LLPipeline::stateSort(3010)
- jira-archive-internal#70847 [SL-20480] [PBR] Rendering Problem of trees in foreground and shrubs in background
Second Life for Mac
Free
In English
Version 7.1.8.9375512768
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Jul 26 2024
Version: 7.1.8.9375512768
What's astounding is that the Second Life devs can't be bothered to catch up with Apple M-Series processors, aka ARM. This stuff is all Intel x86. M-Series Macs started in 2020. Lazy, lazy, lazy. Considering the amount of 3D coded into SL, this is lunatic on their part. So if you're on an M-Series Mac, you have to run SL in Rosetta 2 EMULATION. 😝
Jul 14 2021
Version: 6.4.19.560171
..... i can't play on ipad but computer i do't no it no workg
Feb 14 2021
Version: 6.4.12.555248
Linden Lab is Aiding and Abetting Criminal Activity:
Millions of real life dollars are siphoned from the Second Life music community yearly....without any royalties paid to rightful copyright owners for use of their material...nor are there any real life taxes imposed....all the while....Linden Lab profits from transfer fees for out-going/laundered money.....and music venues wish to act like hotshots while they harbor entertainers who think they are above the law and avoid paying federal taxes on millions of virtual world (Second Life) income.
Some people believe real life regulations stop at the log in screen entering Second Life
When you speak out against corruption in Second Life....they attempt to flip it around...make you out to be the bad guy...YOU are the criminal.......your name entered into ban list all around the grid.
Second Life has become an evil empire full of corruption, greed and trolls....There are much better things to do than to consolidate yourself with a bunch of a--holes.
Department of the Treasury - Internal Revenue
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f3949a.pdf
Youtube: https://youtu.be/UIIEnmt5ZAM
Robert69 Little - Winner of AVI Choice Award (May 2016)
https://youtu.be/LFd0Kl_MvzE
A lot of real life money revolves around virtual world music venues....hiring of entertainers ($20.00 per hour...sometimes a lot more than that.....plus tips.........some earning up to and well over $400.00 per week in real life income)....dance animations, guitars, pianos, drum sets....etc....venues furniture....blah, blah, blah. It cost money to buy virtual world lindens (money) and then it cost again to transfer lindens (money) back out into the real world.
Linden Lab does NOT publicize "live music" events in Second Life by way of videos. I would assume this is a way to keep their money laundering operation under wraps.
https://secondlife.com/my/community/events/?lang=en-US
BBB- Linden Lab Reviews:
https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/san-francisco/profile/online-gaming/linden-lab-1116-57373/customer-reviews
Tweets to Phillip Rosedale and Ebbe Altbert of Second Life
https://youtu.be/rq9uUKrXFz0
I don't believe I've ever run across a bigger loud mouth, egoistic con-artist in all my life.....truly sickening.....: Seth Regan aka "Mankind Tracer"
http://www.slenquirer.com/2021/01/spotlight-on-seth-regan-aka-mankind.html#comment-form
Linden Lab is Aiding and Abetting Criminal Activity - Part 2
https://youtu.be/dQIfAcfKl7A
Linden Lab - What Part Of Corruption Is Not Visible
https://youtu.be/W3YPaRLa2oQ
Scams are endless in Second Life...: were there is money.....people will do just about anything to get their hands on it.
Linden Lab - What Part Of Corruption Is Not Visible - Part 2
https://youtu.be/34bzgpxuEDU
Linden Lab - What Part Of Corruption Is Not Visible - Part 4
https://youtu.be/uCCoR9j0Xuk
They can't even host for "Feed A Smile" with any sort of integrity.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/website-reviews/second-life/user-reviews/adult?gate=1
Second Life appeals to a lot of hedonistic people with little or no respect for the human race or individual.
https://twitter.com/philiprosedale/status/1356363492136087554?s=20
Linden Lab - What Part Of Corruption Is Not Visible - Part 10
https://youtu.be/WgGAJXBzKxg
It's all fun and games in the Second Life music community as long as entertainers can launder 1000's upon 1000's of real life dollars and venues can also panhandle guest who attend these virtual world shows. Why should Linden Lab complain....they're making a profit off money transfer fees.
Apr 26 2015
Version: 3.7.27.300636
Reminds me of V-World on the Caprica TV series (60 years prior to Battlestar Galactica)! Although it is not half as good. :P
Apr 23 2014
Version: 3.7.6.289164
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/456-what-ever-happened-to-second-life