Back in December 2006, Los Arboles was born in the metaverse of Second Life.  For the last three years, it has been my home and work place.  Many of my friends do not understand the connection one can create in virtual worlds, so this might not seem like a big thing.  For those that do [...]

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Los Abroles continues to evolve like much like most of Second Life.  Here are some photos of what it currenlty looks like as of May 25, 2009.

As you can see, we have completed the main bridge to Meta Magic Studio, revamped the bridge from Los Arboles Central to Pirate Town / Rich Desoto’s home, and [...]

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Back on April 19, I posted a couple of photos of work that had been completed in Second Life for Cisco Systems.  Here are a couple more pictures from the rebuild of the Cisco Live area including the inside of the Photo Sphere and Video Center.  The biggest change was a refresh of the “look” [...]

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A couple pictures of the Meta Magic Studio Research Lab on Los Arboles in Second Life.  The lab is open to all unauthorized personnel at all times.  Please be careful of the red buttons.

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Old January Look
Back in January of this year, I started a rebuild of Los Arboles.  While I liked most of my work, I was never happy with the art-deco bridge and escalator and the whole MMS office look and layout just never did it for me.  But with limited time available in January, I just [...]

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Posting a couple of pictures of two projects that were recently developed by Meta Magic Studio for Cisco Systems.   The first was an updating of the successful Cisco Live build that we did last year and the second was a demonstration build of Cisco EnergyWise Office.  Both projects were installed at Cisco Systems Virtual Campus [...]

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I will be at the next Cisco Tech in Second Life on April 14 at 8:00 am.  Here is more info on it!  (If you would like to attend but have no clue on how to start in Second Life, just drop me a line and I will help you out.)
“Improve Your Green Practices with [...]

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Cisco does a great job with their TechChat series.  If you want to see it, please join them in Second Life.
Cisco EnergyWise – Improve Your Green Practices with Cisco EnergyWise
Date = April 14
Time = 8am SLT
Location = Bandwidth Stage, Cisco Systems Sim 4, Second Life
Meta Magic Studio will be there providing support.

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I just finished up a test machinima using the Second Life platform.  I was looking at the a few issues such as light source, shadows, frame rates, textures, animations and just how many shots are really needed to make a four minute film.  I learned lots putting together “Dancing Bananaphant” which took about three hours [...]

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Meta Magic Studio has two private sims in Second Life® versus having land on the Mainland.  Los Arboles is what Linden Lab® calls a Full Region which means it is their highest performing sim offering.  Meta Magic Studio is defined as Openspace Region which in intended just to be a landscape sim with limited scripts [...]

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The rebuild of Los Arboles is 99% complete which means everything is in place.  Now I am just doing some texture work and adding little items here and there.  Hopefully the work will bring smiles to many.  Here are a few pictures of what has been done.
First is new the Five Islands boat stop at [...]

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Los Arboles in Second Life is an ever changing virtual environment designed to demonstrate building, textures and scripting done by Meta Magic Studio.  At the beginning of this month, I began the 3rd major rebuild of the island with a goal having the majority of the work done by end of January.
The only three builds [...]

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This is my rough draft of my blog posting (which I will have Jen spiff up the grammar) for Meta Magic Studio.
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Today, Jan 27, 2009, Cisco® opened its Sustainability Center demonstrating its new EnergyWise Technology and their Networked Sustainability Network in Second Life®.  This center is located at Cisco Systems Sim 2 and demonstrates Green [...]

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My little company Meta Magic Studio is pretty busy right now yet much of what we do is under NDA.
I am happy to say one of our developments will be opeing on January 27th called the Sustainability Center.  It is great information resource for enterpises looking for Green Technology solutions.  Read more from Jen (Cheerie) [...]

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Sometimes I see Pink Elephants

Sometimes I see Purple Ones

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