LabChat Episode 3 Audio and Transcriptions now available!

Lab Chat Episode 3, photographed by Caitlin Tobias

The full audio for LabChat is now available as a series of YouTube videos. In addition, you can read the transcription prepared by Inara Pey, together with sound files, which she has broken down by subject. And Inara has also provided a very helpful summary of the discussion, which you can read here.

Our guests were Ebbe Linden, CEO of Linden Lab, Oz Linden, Ohe Engineering Director of Second Life, and Troy Linden, Senior Producer and they answered a selection of resident questions, chosen by the Lab Chat team, from among a selection submitted to an official forum thread, and also asked during the episode by the live audience.

Lab Chat Episode 3 Part 1:

Lab Chat Episode 3 Part 2:

Lab Chat Episode 3 Part 3:

 

From Inara Pey (links here will take you to her blog, Living in a Modem World):

Please note that in places the audio presented in conjunction with the transcripts has been edited to remove asides, repetition or removed inaudible elements, and so may differ in length and content to the official recordings made of the session. However, no attempt has been made to alter the content or context of the answers supplied by Ebbe, Oz and Troy.

For ease of reference, the session has been split into two parts, and the following Quick links will take readers to any specific topics of interest to them, and further topics can be navigated to by either returning to this page, or using the Quick Links summaries provided within the Bento / Second Life and Project Sansar pages.

• Project Bento
  • Poses and Animations with Bento
    • In-world Tools for Pose and Animation Creation
    • Will Bento Allow Independent Joint Animation / Posing?
  • Incorporating Bento Facial Capabilities into the System Avatar
  • Animated Mesh
  • Scripting Bento Bones
  • Bento Meeting Times
• Second Life
  • Tools for Managing Inventory
  • New Social Islands
  • Second Life Gift Cards
  • Viewer Photography Tools
  • Sound File Length and Animation File Size
  • Texureable Object Faces
  • Region Buy-down And Mainland Incentives
  • Vehicles, Bandwidth and Throttling
  • RLV and the Official Viewer
  • Second Life Experiences
  • Search – Experiences, Marketplace & In-world
  • Marketplace Listing Enhancement Issues
  • Allowing More Estate Managers
  • Reporting Group Spamners
  • Lab Staff Using SL
  • Vulkan Graphics Support for SL
  • Linden Realms Updates
• Project Sansar
  • How Many Avatars Will a Single Instance of Sansar Support?
  • Graphics Requirements
  • NPCs in Sansar
  • Functionality and Capabilities in Sansar
  • Sansar Terms of Service
  • Names and Identity in Sansar
    • Reserving Second Life Names in Sansar
    • Real Names and Pseudonyms
    • Roles and Personas
    • Facebook Log-in
  • Acceptance into Creator Preview
  • Sansar Payment Options
  • Cost of Owning Space in Sansar
  • Mac Users and Sansar

Inara has also provided a very helpful summary of the discussion, which you can read here.

 

 

Don’t miss Lab Chat live!

Lab Chat is live today, Friday, 6th May at 10.30am SLT.

Today, we’ll be asking Ebbe Linden, CEO of Linden Lab, Oz Linden, Ohe Engineering Director of Second Life, and Troy Linden, Senior Producer, a selection of your questions, chosen by the Lab Chat team.

There were over sixty questions asked in the forum, and unfortunately, we won’t have time to ask them all.  But we hope there will be an opportunity for those people who come to the show to ask their questions too.

Lab Chat Episode 2 – photograph by Torley

You can come to the Live recording of the show at the LEA Theater on LEA 2,3, and 4 (the LEA1 part of the theater will be closed as it’s being used to for the set and tech teams that are needed for the recording).

Here are the theater entrances:

LEA2 – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA2/214/214/21
LEA3 – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA3/43/42/21
LEA4 – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA4/40/214/21

We’ll see you there!

If you can’t make it to the live taping, you’ll be pleased to know that Lab Chat will be available as an audio recording and as transcripts. We’ll send you details as all of these become available.

Lab Chat Returns May 6th, 2016 with Ebbe, Oz, & Troy Linden!

(Post from Linden Lab)
It’s nearly time for another session of Lab Chat – an opportunity to have Lindens answer your questions during a recording session taped in front of a live studio audience.

Lab Chat Episode 2 – photograph by Torley

This will be the third Lab Chat – and we have some special guests lined up for you. Joining Ebbe, we will have Oz Linden and Troy Linden available to take your questions about Project Bento and other Second Life development topics!

As Director of Second Life Engineering, and Senior Producer of Second Life respectively, Oz and Troy are two of the best people to ask about the development process, Second Life roadmap, and features for Second Life.

Residents from the Lab Chat production team will select questions to ask Ebbe, Oz, and Troy from this forum thread – so be sure to get your questions into the thread no later than Friday April 29th, 2016.

Lab Chat Episode 2 – photograph by iSkye Silverweb

This time, the Lab Chat recording will be an hour-long audio-only session, but you’re invited to join the studio audience at the Linden Endowment for the Arts Theatre where additional audience questions will be answered.

An audio recording and a transcript of the show will be available shortly after Lab Chat wraps. There will be text transcription available to those unable to listen to Second Life voice in the auditorium.

We’ll see you on Friday May 6th at 10:30am SLT. Don’t forget to add your questions to the forum thread and mark your calendars to join us!

The LabChat 2nd Episode Video is now available!

The full LabChat video is now online.

Shot by Petlove Petshop, Rysan Fall and Emmo Wei (otherwise known as Team Voltron) and edited by Petlove, this is the full video of the most recent show.

Lab Chat Episode 2 – photograph by Torley

You can read a full transcript of the show (with audio) here.

 

Lab Chat #2: Ebbe Altberg – transcript and audio

Lab Chat #2, January 21st, 2016 – Jo Yardley, Ebbe Altberg and Saffia Widdershins

Thursday, January 21st saw the second in a series of discussions called Lab Chat, billed as “an opportunity for you to ask Lindens your questions during a live taping that will be recorded and archived for everyone to view.”

As with the first show, the session featured the Lab’s CEO, Ebbe Altberg in his alter ego of Ebbe Linden. In preparation for the recording, Second Life users were invited to ask questions about the Lab, Second Life, “Project Sansar”, etc on a forum thread.

Over 80 questions were asked, all of which were reviewed by the Lab Chat production team, and from which the list of question to put to Ebbe was drawn. The questions select were those the production team thought would be of most interest to the attending audience, or represented those questions which were asked multiple times by different people.

The following pages offer a transcript of the show’s recording session, which has been split into three parts:

• Those questions and answers those related to Second Life
• Those focused more on Project Sansar
• Additional questions & audience Q&A.

The first two sections are presented in chronological order – as the questions were asked during the recording of the show. The additional questions have been grouped together (where possible) by subject matter, for ease of reference.

The Quick Links below will take you directly to each of these three sections, or to any of the individual discussion points within them. Each question / answer includes an audio extract of that question and response for those who wish to listen rather than read.

Quick Links

Concerning Second Life

• Project Bento
• In-world Grid Status Notifications
• Credit Processing

Concerning Sansar

• Sansar: Live or visit?
• The Sansar Avatar
  • Avatar Appearance
  • Avatar Inventory
• Content Building
  • In-world Tools
  • Terrain (Land) Editing Tools
  • Sansar Workflows
• Approximate Sansar Time Frames

Additional Questions

• Sansar Maps and Web Pages and Second Life Surls
  • More on Sansar Web Pages
• Education and Business in Second Life and Sansar
  • Attracting Businesses into Sansar
• Sansar and Art
• Aviation, Sailing and Racing in Sansar
• Databases, Permissions and Experience Creation
• Sansar, Oculus Rift and VR
  • Other VR Integration with Sansar
• Sansar on Linux
• Sansar Accessibility for the Impaired
• Sansar Scripting API Support
• Sansar and Griefing and Trolling
• Sansar Alpha / Beta Testing Requests

Closing Comments

Note: this is not a transcript of the entire recording session. The focus is on the questions asked and responses given. Also, the audio extracts are from a recording which was cleaned-up following the show to remove repetitions, pauses, trailing comments which otherwise break the flow / context of replies. However, no attempt has been made to editorialise or in any way alter the context of any response given to questions.

With thanks to Inara Pey for the transcript and links.

LabChat audio on the Drax Files – and we need your photos!

Lab Chat Episode 2 – photograph by Secret Rage

We had a great LabChat with Ebbe Linden yesterday!  Over 120 of you attended in person, and filled the three open audience regions throughout the hour and a half show.

Ebbe gave very full answers to questions about Project Bento and, of course, Project Sansar, addressing the wide range of questions that we selected from the Forum – and some asked by our live audience too.

 

Lab Chat Episode 2 – photograph by Torley

You can hear audio of the whole event on the Drax Files: http://draxfiles.com/2016/01/22/show-101-lab-chat-returns/

Video of the show will be out shortly – we’ll let you know when and where you can see it!

Lab Chat Episode 2 – photograph by iSkye Silverweb

Did you come to LabChat at the LEA Theatre yesterday? We’d love to see your photos if you took any!

You can post them to our Flickr group at: https://www.flickr.com/groups/labchatsl/

Lab Chat Episode 2 Security – photograph by Secret Rage

 

Don’t miss Lab Chat live!

Lab Chat is live today, Thursday 21st January at 10.30am SLT.

Once again, we’ll be asking Ebbe Linden, CEO of Linden Lab, a selection of your questions, chosen by the Lab Chat team.

There were eighty questions asked in the forum, and unfortunately, we won’t have time to ask them all.  But we hope there will be an opportunity for those people who come to the show to ask their questions too.

Lab Chat Episode 1, photographed by Torley

You can come to the Live recording of the show at the LEA Theater on LEA 2,3, and 4 (the LEA1 part of the theater will be closed as it’s being used to for the set and tech teams that are needed for the recording).

Lab Chat Episode 1, photographed by Torley

Here are the theater entrances:

LEA2 – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA2/214/214/21
LEA3 – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA3/43/42/21
LEA4 – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA4/40/214/21

We’ll see you there!

If you can’t make it to the live taping, you’ll be pleased to know that Lab Chat will be available as an audio recording, as transcripts and as videos. We’ll send you details as all of these become available.

 

Last Chance to ask your Questions for the next episode of Lab Chat!

Lab Chat Episode 1, photographed by Torley

The next episode of Lab Chat will be on Thursday 21st January, and the forum for posting questions to be asked on the show will be closing at midnight on Friday 15th January, so this is your last chance to get your questions in!

The questions to feature on the show will be chosen by the Lab Chat team (who are all residents). Don’t worry if your question isn’t chosen – as you may have a chance to ask it in the open session at the end (if there is time).

People whose questions are chosen will be invited to appear on the stage. They will be able to put their questions directly to Ebbe, in voice if they wish (or their questions will be read if they don’t use Voice/Skype).

Try to keep your questions brief – longer questions can still be chosen by the team, but they may need to be edited in order to squeeze as many questions as possible into the show!

So don’t miss your chance to ask your questions now! https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Upcoming-Events-and-Activities/Lab-Chat-Returns-January-21st-2016-with-Linden-Lab-CEO-Ebbe/td-p/2993029

Ask your questions for Lab Chat in the Forum now!

Lab Chat Episode 1, photographed by Torley

The forum threat where you can post the questions for our next episode of Lab Chat is now open: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Upcoming-Events-and-Activities/Lab-Chat-Returns-January-21st-2016-with-Linden-Lab-CEO-Ebbe/td-p/2993029

Lab Chat returns on January 21st – with Ebbe Linden (aka Ebbe Altberg, CEO of Linden Lab) answering more of your questions!

The second show will be at 10.30am SLT in the LEA Theater with seating available on LEA2, 3 and 4. It will be recorded (audio, video and transcript) and broadcast later – links will appear here.

The questions to feature on the show will be chosen by the Lab Chat team (who are all residents). Don’t worry if your question isn’t chosen – as you may have a chance to ask it in the open session at the end (if there is time).

People whose questions are chosen will be invited to appear on the stage. They will be able to put their questions directly to Ebbe, in voice if they wish (or their questions will be read if they don’t use Voice/Skype).

Try to keep your questions brief – longer questions can still be chosen by the team, but they may need to be edited in order to squeeze as many uestions as possible into the show!

The Forum closes on January 15th – so make sure you get your questions in before then!

Lab Chat is coming back – on January 21st!

Lab Chat returns on January 21st – with Ebbe Linden (aka Ebbe Altberg, CEO of Linden Lab) answering more of your questions!

After the success of our first episode in November last year, we are delighted to announce the second episode of Lab Chat, recorded in front of a live audience and then broadcast on numerous streams including Second Life’s You Tube channel, AviewTV and SLArtist as well as being available in audio and written transcription.

The second broadcast will be at 10.30am SLT in the LEA Theater with seating available on LEA2, 3 and 4.

Lab Chat Episode 1, photographed by Torley

How do you submit your questions?

You enter your questions on the special Linden Lab Forum which will be opened for questions shortly – we’ll tell you when and where to go!

The questions to feature on the show will be chosen by the Lab Chat team (who are all residents). Don’t worry if your question isn’t chosen – as you may have a chance to ask it in the open session at the end (if there is time).

People whose questions are chosen will be invited to appear on the stage. They will be able to put their questions directly to Ebbe, in voice if they wish (or their questions will be read if they don’t use Voice/Skype).

The audience will be in the other three regions of the Theater. Voice relays mean that what is said will be audible on all four regions. There are also a set of text chat relays so that all text should be visible on all regions, and we have a team in the Theater who will be providing a voice-to-text service to let people know what is being said in voice. If there’s time, questions asked in text chat will also be put to Ebbe.

There will be a full transcription published later to accompany the video. Highlights will be broadcast on the Drax Radio Files show.

We’re really excited about this – and we hope you will be too!

So get your questions in by Friday 15th January– and we will see you at the show on the 21st.

Lab Chat Team: Draxtor Despres, Gentle Heron, LaPiscean Liberty, Marianne McCann, Elrik Merlin, Petlove Petshop, Inara Pey, Secret Rage, Aisling Sinclair, Arduenn Schwartzman, Lorin Tone, DevinVaughn, Saffia Widdershins, and Jo Yardley