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Augmented Object tracking Hud in Secondlife

Many people have seen head up displays (pilots use them in fighter planes) and augmented reality devices like Google Glass which places information in front of your eyes based on your location and the environment around you. Imagine what that would look like on a Secondlife hud, Richardjrn (Geek) Weatherwax was playing around with the idea as an extension to a project we are working on.

In this episode of Research & Friends Shorts, he demo's object tracking with Snapper Desade.

Gravity

Anyone who's ever tried standing in a moving build in secondlife would be used to be thrown around like a rag doll. So GFC's Research Division assistant lead started looking for a solution to maintain gravity for your avatar within moving objects giving you the ability to walk around mostly freely while the object your standing in spins around on any of its axises.

A Research and Friends short video was made to demonstrate this feet of gravity.

Bouncy Station

When GFC builders need a break from creating a new space station they release their tension by testing if the station is bouncy, for research purposes of course :)

GFC Wormholes Caught On Video

With the discovery of wormholes in the GFC Reasearch and Friends decided to investigate in their latest Vlog (video blog) by showing how the wormholes work and how you can use them. Join Richardjrn Weatherwax, Sophie Johnson, snapper Desade, Dr. Jens Johnson and Lynda Johnson the fearless test pilots as they fly in, fly out and crash their way through the anomalies.

Portal like effects in Second life

Over the last few months Linden Labs the creators of  Secondlife® have been busy not just updating their systems but adding features which members have requested to them since the dawn of time. One such feature is the llTeleportAgent command which makes it easier to teleport avatars around the grid when items are clicked or touched. Before you'd have to click  a maps or use RLV forced action options, with the new functions people can be teleported more seamlessly around the sim.

Richardjrn Weatherwax and Snapper Desade in their first Research and Friends vlog (video blog) explains how these functions can be used in their own surreal inimitably style and how Portal types effects could be created in Secondlife.