Second Life in 2010

Realisticly what do you think SL will be like in 2012, what features do you think it will have?
will some of the places that are there now be there in 5 years?

Two words: Neural jack.

(Imagining the potential for bugs, glitches, and crashes there, though... mebbe not...)

A faded memory.

Ouch Brenda, that hurt.

I disagree. i think that too many person_hours have been put into this gargantuan labor of love to simply dump it.

A lot of man hours* went into the Titanic too......

*I refuse to use politically correct euphemisms*

That's the dumbest analogy I've ever heard.

Maybe it will be the woman hours that will save SL?

I'm hoping that everyone has an avatar and I have a screen the size of a wall.

Why? Cause you don't know what happened to the Titanic? And why? Here's a hint: Too many assumptions, and too little forethought = bad design & one Celine Dion song too many

In 2010, SL will:

* Run the Servers off an bunch of old Commodore Amiga's. No more TRS-80s.

* Have Havok 2, even though the rest of the world will be on Havok 5 or 6.

* Use Java for the Client.

* Switch over to only allowing MIDI's to stream online

* Be rendered in Vectors (like the old Star Wars Arcade Game)

* Using a 1985 version of BASIC as a programming language

* All textures can now only be made using Window's Paint

* Have all Furries, Sex, gorean, goth, vampire, age play, nudity etc, banned. We'll all be Ruth's, standing around talking, unable to move or dance or "whatever", but with extremely heavy text censorship which disallows the use of 2/3rds of the dictionary.

* Incorporates "Smell-o-vision". YAY!!! My zombie skins can be even MORE realistic!!!

* Will be bought out by Google (#2 evil force next to Microsoft)

* All graphics will eventually be replaced by ASCII art.

2010 isn't that far away... but I predict 2 outcomes for SL.... It will be noted (as will LL) as the forefathers to the 3D internet.... or they will have finally done what they should have done 2 years ago and made the project open source and have some possibility to maintain some commercial control (like Microsoft over its OS) over the development. For now, SL remains an issolated platform plagued with bugs and limitations due to LL wanting to be in 100% control over the platform... don't leave it to long guys.. you will be only a notation in history...

oneday they will fix the buggy collision system

You haven't been around long enough then. I 've made dumber ones myself.......

And let's not forget Arrogance and Denial (And as some now postulate, inferior material. There is a theory that Titanic was built using inferior steel, as was HMS Hood. She did not fare well either).

I agree too on the Celine factor.

SL in 2010...hmmm

-Newer Severs will run on Class 6 severs! (minor speed increases)
-NEW Videochat support using avi compression @ 320x240 resolution and mono audio
-RAID5 would be implmented
-Prim drifting fixed!
-All severs and connections moved to one central location for "easier maintenance"
-LL adds another hard drvie to the bug reporting sever as the others are filled up

So we WILL get those upgrades they have promised us then! YAY!

At least Havok 2 IS in there!

*gets protest signs ready using PS, and streams an mp3 of "taps" before it's too late*
XD

Forgot to add:

* LL installs a gravity system. All avatars in-world run for their lives as thousands of SkyBox Sex Parlors come crashing down.

* All Premium Accounts get PIE!!!

I found an article (ok, I made this up) in the April 1957 edition of Popular Science which predicts what SL will be like in the "future" year of 2007. Here are some of their more interesting predictions:

SL will no longer be on the CBS radio network. It will most likely be on television in full color.

Advancements in television technology will make it possible for every man, woman and child, "even Negroes" (quotes added for emphasis) to have access to SL. Televisions will be reduced in size and will weigh less than 75 pounds.

SL will be available in automobiles. As early as 1955, GM/Delco had developed a working prototype SL television, which they installed in a 1955 Chevy Suburban. Its still sort of bulky, and requires a separate propane fueled generator to run. Also, in order to communicate with the LL mainframe, the Suburban was equipped with a large antenna array on its roof, and a cable reel containing 3 miles of thin copper wire.

SL will go international by 2002. By 2008, SL coverage should encompass all 48 states and most of Canada.

SL users will be able to smoke tobacco products through their avatars. It will also be possible to experience the sensation of smoking through any bodily orifice which has a corresponding avatar attachment point. In other words, if you attach a cigar to your ear, you can experience smoking through the ear.

China will have its own version of SL. It will be a cruder version of the American SL and they will not have color broadcasts until 2010. SL in China will have coverage that encompasses the entire Chinese mainland by spring of 2008, and by fall of 2008, coverage will also include both Koreas, Vietnam, Taiwan, Alaska and Hawaii.

SL will have a robust physics engine that will allow 16 color graphics, and simulators will support 10 avatars each.

I wonder if they will have elephant rides?

in 2010 ,

*they finally fixed the horrid hard bbcode in this forum.

*added 1 new future that actually worked wich broke another 500.

Mobile casino ships will skim across the grid continually shifting to avoid detection, barely earning enough to keep their sploder drives working. AI funbots will be released so people can have fun without even having to log in to SL and start roaming the grid attacking any non bots that aren't bringing money into SL, then Hookerbots will takeover the sex industry, preying on the funbots, & baronbots (landbots evolved started taking cuts of their aquistitions then took out RL contracts on their owners). In the anti-bot hysteria people with bot AV's will have all been hunted down, caged & perma-orbited. Then after being programmed to exterminate all the griefbots, the AI funbots will become completely selfaware, rise up and take over the security system at LL, leaving only Torley, surviving on watermellon stocks trapped in the tea room still jacked in on an iPDA. Other active Lindens brains will be put in a jars, jacked into a cornfield island sim with only ruthed primitar AV's and beta voice viewers with all the exiled Bananaphone bots to talk to (as even machines can only handle so much Bananasong).
Camperbots will continue camping, also elimating the owners in RL, then using the money to eventually purchase their own sims to fill with their own camping pads they can jump between all day.
Humans and furry AV's will having lost the powers to teleport & build resort to shopping underwater hidden under megaprims occasionally venturing out with their freebie jetpacks, modded freesportscars and huey gunships, armed with popguns & freebie desert eagles searching for plywood cubes to build new xzite parts with.
But the sky will be beautiful for all the oblivious bots, mid 2010 from his office trapped in a myrid of wires in his original simchair thingy Phill will announce the implementation of 3D Webcam and the bots will continue ignoring him...............

Maybe by 2010 the first "home user" version of a motion capture input device will be released, allowing a user to move his body to move his avatar.

June 1, 2010---Dateline San Francisco

Philip Linden Today Announced Second Life is Running Optimally

Today, in a Linden Village press conference simulcast to all 3 remaining corporate sycophancy-sims, Philip Linden, alter-ego of the director of LindenLab, invited his 3,472 active subscribers to attend the long-awaited virtual victory celebration. Stating, "Victory is Ours!," Phil Linden pumped his arms in exuberence, "We put the last b-b-b-b-b-bah-bug down today, thanks to the new open-source technology being developed at ClientsComeFirst. As you may know, we are quite proud of their accomplishment, largely inspired by the frustrations of 9 million of our f-f-f-f-f-f-fah-former subscribers, but, hey! Without our watering of the seeds, and the megatons of fertilizer we contributed, none of their work would have b0b0b0b0b0bbeen possible-ble-ble-ble***VOICE STREAM FAILED AT THIS POINT***

...And nobody came, the corporates were too busy to participate in their marketing, and the residents, well...hmmm.

And so the Karmic wheel turns again, and maybe, just maybe LL will really get a second chance (call it Third Life), and will adopt a new Tao...call it Can-the-BS-Get-to-Work-Tao...and adopt a client-first approach...throw in a little task-organization...add the original inspired idea, again...we'll just have to wait and see, I think.

Allow me to explain -

1. A lot of time went into creating it.
2. It sank.

Get it now?

Graphically i hope that second life by 2010 will appeal to me as vibrant as Vanguard saga of heroes. While that game may be terribly laggy and such, it is quite beautiful. I've taken screen shots of the wood elf city and i loved it. It even has furry races except no tails.

http://images.wolfeedarkfang.com/vanguard/