GoSpeed Gets Novel

From a press release received on 10 January 2018

Longtime Second Life (SL) Resident, GoSpeed Rasere (aka GoSpeed Racer), is self-publishing a science fiction eBook novel called Rasere’s War on Amazon and Smashwords . The novel features several SL residents as main characters living in a futuristic virtual reality simulation. Rasere’s War the first in a three book series. The follow-on novel, We Built This City, is completed and will be released later in the spring.

Links to purchase the book are at R. Jacques – Author

Ms. Raeser available for interviews on weekends and from 3:00 PM to 06:00 PM SLT on weekdays. Alternately you may submit questions via email: gospeed@konastream.com

Why I Need A Bigger Monitor

Every day I’m happy with my 27″ Retina iMac. The only time I’m not super happy with it is when I’m using Second Life. Partly, it’s the performance. Cheaper Windows machines have better performance in SL – Ask anyone. Despite growing up on Winows, though, I find the Mac far more intuitive, more reliable, and the 5K resolution is astounding with the right source.

My iPad Mini4 sits near my keyboard so I can keep up with the one game I to play or to watch a video, read the news, or whatnot. That alone has made me wish for a second big monitor or a much wider screen on the iMac. When someone has me open a URL from inside the SL viewer an external browser pops up blocking Second Life. There is a solution, but that’s where a very wide monitor would come into play.

Apple’s tile screen option is cool and I use it often, but not with SL. As you can see, it is useable, but not practical compared to the full screen shot at the top of this post. A much wider screen is needed for that. Of course, I could use the iPad as a second Monitor – one cable and done – but then I’d need another one for the same thing I use it for now.

What I really need is a full augmented reality VR setup so I can just look around and there are screens everywhere like in the Zion city defense center in the third Matrix movie. Surely a spike in the skull would be worth it. Bring it on!