DO NOT OPEN uploading of meshes to every random idiot who will suck dry Googe Warehouse. Create a membership. Tie that to a premium account, etc.etc.

And it isn’t just real estate that is interested. If this gets rolling the first demo of weapon manufacturers (tanks, airplanes, firearms) is not far behind. After that, cars, industrial equipment, chains of production, robotics, restaurants (booking tables). As soon as the first sheep cross that bridge it will be a stampede.

Regular SL users would by and large not notice since these corporate clients would keep these sims locked off. Most of them would. Some would however synergize and might have the sense to actually SELL some of these articles in SL. There is a market for decently crafted and scripted APC personell carriers in SL.. why not cash in?

All this will get better and better – and by 2018 the vatican might start thinking about getting a sim.

Sims such as these would show video, carefully constructed landscaping scenery (much of which could be harvested straight from the already existing game content). The entry of avatar in a seperate demo would be tricky but not altogether unreasonably difficult.

An initiative such as this, would place Second Life immediately in the position of salesperson and presentation platform for most other avatar-driven games. Regard the position of LL towards game companies as an intermediary of (i) booth babe, (ii) facebook app and (iii) steam. Yes you heard that correctly : LL would literally be in a position to offer a service quite comparable to steam.

The benefits for all sides would be considerable;

Game company
1 – the company can make money selling its unique content in stores on the SL sim. It can then use these microcredit transactions to power its game (buy the unique handfamer in second life and unlock it in YOUR version of FallOut3). I would die (=spend tens of euros per month) to buy a range of game-derivative articles that I would then be able to flaunt and show off in SL. This is a market no game company should understimate, especially since it only involves designing the stuff once – after which production costs are ZERO. No plastic toys of wasteland chainguns – but realistic virtual franchising.

2 – A game designer such as Bathesda would instantly attract a considerable crowd of potential customers, even skinnydippers tasting the game via the SLinked demo. I’d argue that the investment for a game company to translate the content of their game to SL formats (and implement or charter a sim) to be worth the investment compared to exposure, word of mouth, trophyhunters and other assorted gadgeteers.

3 – Game companies might benefit from using the existing Linden$ infrastructure for microcrediting and transactioning. Think about it, an idea simpler than the egg of columbus but with even more potential impact.

I shall not emphasize how LL would benefit from this arrangement, and how much effort LL better invest to get this idea rolling as soon as possible. No seriously mister middlemanagement “oh fuck this is all wayyy to complex” – this is a golden opportunity. In fact think about the following :

- an eve online sim. You teleport in there and all around you is the observation deck of a massive station in Eve Online. Through huge windows avatars can look outside (and there is realtime streaming video slowing what is happening just outside the corresponding station in Eve Online space projected on a ‘matte painting’ dome, including muffled sound effects). SLPlayers can buy eve memorabilia and carry them around SL for boasting rights. But also, players can seamlessly walk from the sim, into a demo (download) – and literally play their own SL character my name (and the in-game character icon is a depiction of the SL avatar). Better, once they do, they get a landed shuttle they can rez anywhere in SL.

- a starcraft sim. Continuous coverage of high ranking online matching through video. Sculptures of characters, plus a chance to BUY all main characters. Yes, that includes a kerrigan toon voor inside SL handcrafted by Xenius. Or a powered armor. Or any of several weapons derived from in-game designs. Buy the game from the SL Starcraft sim and you get a free APC.

http://khanneasuntzu.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/what-if-millions-of-pc-users-just-ready-to-harvest/

Lets clear this up right here. Just because Mesh Support won’t be included in the Second Life 2.0 *VIEWER* upgrade, that doesn’t mean it is not coming. The Second Life 2.0 viewer is NOT introducing any new features, to the best of my knowledge. It is simply a User Interface redesign (I suppose though, you could think of THAT as a new feature). Previously, the term “SL 2.0″ has been used, in a broader sense, to reference the new features that are coming, but this is a mistake when speaking about the viewer upgrade.

If you really think about it, the media API and C# won’t be included w/ SL 2.0 either, but does that mean they won’t eventually come into being?