You are invited to a night of Celebration in London City, for the New Years Eve Party.
DJ Loki / DJ Torric and DJ Jon Temple will take you through New Years Eve and into the New Year. Loki will be playing club dance, Torric playing Classic Cheese and Jon Temple will be playing Classic Party.
Party starts at 12pm SL (8pm UK) and goes on well into the next morning as we see in the New Year, 2016.
New residents joining Second Life will soon be asked for their preferred location when initially joining the world.
We are proud to represent the UK choice and to offer the gateway for London via our new region, The London City Gateway.
Building work continues, but here is the first glimpse of London City Community Gateway..
Throughout the holiday season, the bars and clubs in London City will be open with many festive events. Also, keep an eye out for the pop-up parties happening throughout the estate over the next few days.
The London City team are enjoying a couple of days family time from 10am SL Christmas Eve through until 10pm Boxing Day (26th December). Please use the Support portal above if you need help and we will be sure to answer you in a timely manner.
LondonCity, a community estate
in Second Life since 2009 is pleased to announce the expansion of the estate,
adding a new region, with an exclusive focus on new users.
London City and their team of thirty "London
Support" agents has for many years, given specialist help to new residents
in the hope of kick-starting their Second Life with a powerful and impressive
immersive experience, fast tracking the user to the best experiences Second
Life has to offer.
We are pleased to announce that we have been invited by Linden
Lab to offer an officially endorsed Community Gateway which will be known as
"London City Gateway".
This dedicated region is under development and will begin to
host and assist new users as they are 'born' directly into the Gateway, in the
new year.
London City Gateway will be a low lag, fun environment where
new users can quickly learn the initial skill sets needed for the best possible
experience in Second Life.
We very much hope that LondonCity
will play a big part in the retention of new users as they begin their Second
Life journeys and to help the further growth of the Second Life community.
Avatars are about to get even more realistic as Linden Lab announces Project Bento.
The avatar skeleton will now support:
30 bones in the hands
6 tail bones
30 bones for facial expressions
11 extra limb bones for wings, additional arms, or extra legs.
2 other new bones in the head for animating ears or antennae
13 new attachment points associated with the new bones
Initially you will need the Project Viewer as it is still a work in progress, but hopefully this will be adopted by 3rd party viewers as soon as the new enhancement is proven.
For full information about this new enhancement see the Knowledge Base
We know how much work, value, personalization and emotional investment goes into a Second Life avatar, so we have always been careful when considering avatar changes. While we want to make improvements, we also want to maximize backward compatibility. Get ready for the biggest thing that’s happened to avatars in years.
Ever wish you could incorporate a tail, wings, or second set of arms into your avatar? How about having animations for facial expressions and finger movements? Yes, we know that there are some incredibly creative workarounds that give you some of these, but they can’t leverage skeletal animation, so they have been very complex, often fragile, and very expensive in performance and resources both in your Viewer and the Simulator.
We are introducing extensions to the standard Second Life Avatar Skeleton that give you dozens of new bones to support both rigging and animation, and accompanying new attachment points! This extended skeleton, which is fully backward compatible with existing avatars, rigging and animation, gives creators the power to build more sophisticated avatars than ever before.
On the grounds that I have presents to wrap and Christmas Shopping to do... you will forgive me for this down 'n' dirty vid this week! Normal service will be resumed as soon as Christmas calms down a bit :)
Does your Christmas wardrobe need a seasonal refresh? Many of the shops in London City are now geared up for Christmas with some stunning new designs for Christmas 2015. Check out the stores below for some great fashion and offers.
Through December, keep an eye out for extra activities as each of the five clubs in London City hold their own Christmas Parties and extra shows.
The Saturday concerts at Party in the Park include Cher, Glen Campbell, Demis Roussos, and a Christmas Eve early evening show for Andy Williams, with a special Christmas Show by Our Cilla on Boxing day!
London City is open throughout the Christmas Season, even serving Christmas Day dinner!
