"Sublime was conceived and founded in June 2006, with the goal of creating a unique, full-service dining experience in SL. We wanted to provide the community with a romantic, interactive date spot that mimicked a real-life restaurant as closely as possible."





Make a reservation on the Homepage

Teleport there!

"Inside the Machinima follows a machinima director on a tour of his studio as he discusses the similarities between machinima and conventional filmmaking. "

An immersive collaborative audiovisual environment for Second Life.
by Adam Ramona (real name Adam Nash)

Using many of the possibilities unique to the Second Life medium, A Rose Heard At Dusk is a participatory artwork that turns visitors into performers.

It was designed specifically for the cavern space under the Opera House on Big Pond Island. The work is designed to be "played" by visitors avatars.

Walking, flying and jumping through the space, avatars create a unique audiovisual composition, different every time. Colours and sounds combine to create a spatially immersive musical and visual experience.

The work can be played by single avatars, but it really comes alive when friends play it together.

It blends the different meanings of "play". By playing in the space, visitors are actually playing the space like an audiovisual instrument, creating endless variations of sound and vision.

It looks different at different times of day, the light reacting differently with all of the translucent colours. It sounds different from different positions - all sounds are attached to shapes in the space, so some sounds stay still while others move. Combined with the movements of visitors avatars, this creates an endlessly changing immersive audiovisual experience."

All this underneath the Sydney Opera House in Ponderosa on Boomerang Island: Teleport to Ponderosa

SLNN: "The Shelter in Swinside, which is the sister sim of the ever popular Shelter in Isabel has suffered an Art Attack. The Art Attack is a rotating display of paintings featuring a number of Second Life's more prominent artists."

The Guardian "Italians seeking respite in cyberspace from the surreal world of Italian politics are fighting plans by a minister to build a campaign headquarters in the virtual reality community Second Life.

Around 60,000 Italians frequent the online universe. But "avatars" gathered at the weekend on a tropical island, above, bought by Antonio Di Pietro, Italy's transport and infrastructure minister, to protest at his plans to set up office space there. Writing on his online blog, Mr Di Pietro, who has planted his flag on the island, said he wanted to promote "political, social and economic" debate in Second Life."

Simteach.com started a Wiki.

This must be the worst company name in a long time...

"One of the things that I’m most excited about is a mashup between Second Life and the learning management system, Moodle. Its called Sloodle." - Joe Miller, VP Platform, Linden Lab

"Dan Livingstone built a Heads -Up Display that lets students post blog entries directly from Second Life. It tags the entry with a SLURL for later teleport and affixes conveniently to your viewer. Soon to be added are a range of other features useful for your classes and inworld activities. Coming up next - classroom gestures!

Sloodle v1.0 is releasing at the Massively Multi-Learner Workshop on March 22nd in Paisley, Scotland."

Starwood Hotels Explore Second Life First: "You won't be able to check into aloft, Starwood's (HOT) new line of moderately priced, loft-style hotels, until the first quarter of 2008. But in September, you can wander into the lobby of its digital Doppelganger inside the popular online world of Second Life."

Fabjectory - Home "Get a statuette of your avatar * Priced from $99 - $200 depending on complexity"

"Avimator: Second Life Avatar Animation Editor: "Avimator is an easy-to-use, open source tool for creating and editing avatar animations for Second Life. It is a free alternative to Poser and Maya, and it runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. "

"RateMySL : is a competition framework for finding the best and most popular images from Second Life. Voting in a competition is free, and is open to all residents. Residents can vote as often as they like to help determine who will win each competition.

Our first competition will be for Best Avatar, and L$ prizes will be awarded to the top 10% of entries, as well as to the top voting locations! "

"Philip Rosedale, Founder and CEO of Linden Lab talks to iinnovate about the creation of Second Life, the defining or ah-ha moment, and how SL relates to real life. "

Die Welt: "Die Online-Welt Second Life birgt nach Ansicht von Bundes-Verbraucherminister Horst Seehofer (CSU) zahlreiche Risiken. Bisher sei unklar, welchem Recht ein Kaufvertrag unterliege, ob die Computerfiguren Rechtsansprüche hätten und ob sie Kredite aufnehmen könnten."

SLNN: "A group of Second Life developers, Hogwarts Reborn, is undertaking the daunting task of recreating the Harry Potter universe. Perhaps the one question most prevelant in gamer's minds is why such an endavor has been so long in the under taking?"