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Dear readers, June is here! And so is SL 15th birthday! 15 years of awesomeness, and we wish it so many more! So young, yet so revolitionary! So, a very happy birthday from all the members of our crew!
Let's not forget this is also Pride month! We're here, some of us are queer, and we want the world to celebrate this magical month with us. No need to say that we have a wonderful interview about this topic in this issue!
But, let's see what you will find in this issue! We will talk about the project of a translater that not only works with your chat but also with your voice; the Mystical Fae, a wonderful spot where you can take awesome photos; lots of free but cool stuff you can easily obtain. And. So. Many. Other. Things. You can't even imagine how many. Like tons. Really. Go and read it!
So, happy birthday SL, happy Pride everyone and have a great time reading our works!
As always, see you next month with other awesome news just for you, guys!
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It's Pride Month, a lot is happening all around the world, good stuff and bad stuff. It's normal, it's the world and humanity but among of all the usual news in this crazy world we have one: there is going to be a Pride Festival in SL! I'm so excited about it and being interested myself in such a project i wanted to know more and let all of our readers (you) know more: So, I reached out to Eva Artemisia the creatori of this event and owner of THIS IS WRONG, and asked her to answer to a couple of my questions. She was super fly about it and also proved to be super sweet! So, without any further ado, I'll leave y'all to our interview.
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Thank you so much for accepting to answer a couple of questions, I know it's a bit of a chaotic period! First things first let's begin with a very basic question: can you tell us something about you? My name is Eva Artemesia, I've been on SL for about 11 years. I have a tattoo store, "THIS IS WRONG", and I co-own a club. In my virtual life I did a bit of everything, I like Second Life because it's like a big white canva on which you can express your creativity in every possible form. With my previous avatar I organised a lot of internetional artistic exhibitions. I'm proud to say I also met Phillip Linden, who has come to visit them :D What made you create to this event? And why on this topic? This topic is really close to my heart. I like listening to people and I've heard so much about gay and transgender rights. In RL times are close to a nice Middle Age throw back. Instead of progressing towards a more open mind, we're going back. Towards closure, ignorance and hate. SL is a safe place for a lot of homosexuals who want to escape from a situation of intollerance that is raging in Italy, but not only there. Yet, also here, there' someone who's brave enough to define gays, lesbians and trans "different", less important people. The idea of creating this festival was given to me by an IM which got me very angry. But getting angry is pointless, it's not functional. So I told myself: let's put it all towards something proactive, to raise people's awarness, to form a group and positivity.
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Before talking about anything else, I feel the urge to lead this conversation towards this direction: in the last few months the SL community had to face different "frauds" disguised as fundraising events, can you assure us that the money will actually go to the Arcigay association? No, I'm going to take it all to go and live in the Caribbeans! But seriously, as it's well written on the website, the money that will be raised through the tip jars all over the Festival's land will be taken by myself and sent through a bank payment, which I will public. The Arcigay association has a lot of projects on kick-starter mode, in my opinion one more important than the other. Anyway, considering that the theme scamming is a fear of a lot of people, I invite all the scepticals to bypass the Festival and directly donate to the Arcigay, that has been fighting for years all over the Italian territory for gay and trans rights.
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What is the program you have outlined at the moment? What activities should we expect? We are finalising the program, we're at a good point. The events will be various: a lot of music and dance with our dj sets and contests with prizes; we'll have a fantastic photographic exhibition, a fashion show, and a landing point full of gifts and other release offerts with extreme kindness and support from our sponsors. If someone wanted to help/participate, how could that be done? Who should be contacted? Our team of managers is working full speed contacting djs, sponsors, models and artists. Anyone who wants to participate or collaborate can contact them according to their role! All the informations are available on our site: http://pridefestivalsl.wordpress.com/
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The fire of Summer fuels your inner ceptible to internal combustion – neither of Aries:
Now is definitely the time to g swimming – not bars and malls. Taurus:
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This month the Universe asks yo cult if you try to do it via posting Youtub Cancer:
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It’s easier for you to live-up ly aim at everything for your own ends, nothing and a whole lot of debt. Sagittarius:
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Would you like to have a trendy avatar without spending exorbitant amounts? With only 100L $ you can have a wardrobe full of fabulous clothes and accessories! Only 100L$? Yup! Absolutely! So, I went to visit the following shops, each of which offers a large number of group gifts and collects every single one: - Free Dove Fashion (you can pick up 150+ items for female and male!) - Legendaire (there are about 50 group gifts! You can join for free!) - Scandalize (Over 80 group gifts, you can get all of them for 100L$!) I can only wish you "good crazy shopping!"
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Wandering around the internet, browsing the various blogs dealing with Second Life, I came across this very curious and very interesting blog by Ryan Shultz. For this article on art and culture we will deal with something that really concerns each of us: our language and the way we can communicate with others on Second Life. Not everyone knows perfectly the most widespread languages, such as the English and relies on the translation (often bankruptcy) of automatic translators. Virtual worlds such, as Second Life, attract people from all around the world, who might not speak the same language as each other. Automatic translator software is often used to bridge the language gap between users chatting in Second Life. But text chat is not used as often as voice chat in the newer social VR spaces such as Sansar and High Fidelity. Waverly Labs has already created an earpiece called the Pilot, which fits inside your ear to translate foreign languages in real-time, much like the babel fish in Douglas Adams’ science fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It’s really only a matter of time until this sort of technology makes it into social VR platforms.
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As Ryan Shultz says, a related challenge is to provide voice-to-text conversion so that, for instance, a deaf person can participate in social VR discussions. Thankfully, this is already commonly available using software such as the Dragon line of products. It just needs to be integrated with the various client software used to navigate the newer metaverse products. Seamless communication between people of all languages may be coming sooner than you think! Many limits would then be deleted to make room for a more rewarding and above all less misunderstood conversation. How many times have we happened to be fully understood and ended up doing bad things with someone who did not speak our language? The elimination of this "barrier" would facilitate understanding and intercultural exchange with all of us in the community without the embarrassment of isolation due to different languages. Too often we limit ourselves to frequenting people who speak our own language and we put a certain distance with those who are "foreign", not for rudeness or indifference but often willingly for shame and fear: the universal translators (remember that translators HUD In World that did their job until not arrives your crush? *Lol*) have been useful but now is the era of voice-chat and it is right and fantastic to be able to communicate 100% with others making a real community a real community without any boundaries! Source: https://ryanschultz.com/
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