SLideshow Viewer
Ee’s SLideshow Viewer and Second Life 2.0
April 7, 2010
So, Linden Labs caught everyone by surprise and made the Beta 2.0 viewer the main release for new residents, despite there being numerous bugs that still need to be fixed. Pertinent to Ee’s SLideshow viewer are the new shared media facilities, or more precisely changes to parcel media.
Upgrades to SLideshow Viewer will soon incorporate prim media, allowing interaction with websites loaded in the viewer, but a concern is that until you can be certain that all residents are using viewers that support it you have to ask yourself whether presentations you are setting up are accessible by those who want to continue using the 1.23 viewer. I suspect that before long, and without much warning, Linden Lab will make upgrade to 2.0 mandatory, so getting rid of this worry. In the meantime however there are some annoyances that everyone needs to be aware of using parcel media which is the SLideshow Viewers current mechanism for displaying html and streaming media, I don’t intend to release any upgrades to deal with these yet since most will hopefully be fixed quite quickly (see JIRA links later): (more…)
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Second Life + LaTeX = SLaTeX
May 7, 2009
It has long been a problem that one of the biggest obstacles to doing mathematics in Second Life was the inability to write equations. Of course, there is a counter argument that this forces you to be more imaginative in finding ways to get the same ideas across and there is a huge amount to say about the benefits of being able to create complex 3D objects to get mathematical concepts across. But, there comes a point when you really need to be able to discuss equations to get the full picture.
Well, this is a problem no more with a little gadget I’ve come up with: say hello to SLaTeX! Or $$S\LaTeX$$ if you prefer. It’s still in an experimental stage and has a few small bugs to iron out, but it seems to be quite robust.It currently uses either mathtex or mimetex , depending on how the serverside processing is done as I play around with options… it’s a little rough and ready, but it works!
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SLideshow Viewer 3.0 for Second Life
March 8, 2009
After a few false starts, I have finally released SLideshow Viewer 3.0 into the wild. Why has it taken so long? Well it would seem that people wait until they sense I am just about to release it and then I get an IM asking for a custom feature…
…but eventually you have to say enough is enough, more new features can wait til the next version! Although I must admit some of the “requests” were things that I wanted it to do for some of my projects.
I’m really proud of this version, and it comes with some great features including notecard commentry and video streaming with no complicated set-up configuration notecards. Simply change the names of notecards or slides. I’ve now also finally set up automatic upgrades using Hippo Update. For full description of the features follow this link.
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