Archive for May, 2006

Face recognition

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Time to jump on another Internet memetic bandwagon. I ran across the MyHeritage Find the Celebrity in You demo page on Torrid Midnight’s blog, A Work in Progress.

It works like this: you submit a headshot, and the clever algorithms at MyHeritage figure out which celebrities you most resemble.

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Web browsing inside SL

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

UPDATE: The technique described in this article is already obsolete with the coming of version 1.11.1; see Web browsing inside SL, redux for details about making this work in the more recent version.

Version 1.10.1 is here, and one of its new features is an incredibly handy help system, accessible by pressing F1. The quality of the documentation is excellent, and I weep tears of joy that Second Life finally has a decent manual. The new in-world help is also accessible via browser from outside Second Life.

Which may lead you to ask, “So how does SL display web pages inside the client?” It’s because the first part of Linden Lab’s work to integrate the Mozilla browser with the SL client is up and running now. The in-world help window is an embedded browser window.

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