Pied Piper “Tour Bus” For Second Life
I’m not sure how long this has been around, but I just came across it in a BlogHUD post by Jaishree Bengal, and it’s a great idea: a kind of floating tour bus for use in the virtual world of Second Life. Controlled through a heads-up attachment, the Pied Piper unit lets you create a 1-, 3-, 8- or 14-seat floating platform — which then follows you around as you walk or fly around a sim or from sim to sim (though not when teleporting, of course). Created by SL resident Deep Semaphore, the Pied Piper seems ideal for giving tours of a private island or a large build of whatever type. Seasoned SL users know how to use the mini-map to follow their friend’s green dot around a sim (if it isn’t too crowded), but if you haven’t mastered that trick yet, following someone around can be quite challenging. The Pied Piper looks like a good way to solve that problem. You can get one at the »CryoGen Cloning Facility« — though they may be slightly expensive, at L$875. Fortunately, there’s a free trial version there (which disappears after a minute or two), which you can also pick up at »3pointD Labs«. Let the tours commence!
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not bad, but really that’s pretty expensive.
after all the mysti-tool hud includes a camera follower that does much the same thing - but is part of a multi tool that sells for half the price.
[…] My non-ESC SL “fun” usually comes in short spurts but I do consciously carve out non-ESC SL time each week. First off it goes without saying that I love to hang out with my friends, many who happen to also be co-workers. I’ll pop over to see what they are up to, check out what they are working on and what kind of gadgets they are playing with. I love finding new gadgets and when I find something like the Abranimation Frisbees or the Pied Piper, I immediately go down my friends list looking for someone who’s available to play with me. One of my friends is an SL weapons expert and I am always making her show me the newest SL guns and combat sims. Left to my own devices I’ll hunt down every HUD I can get my hands on and if they are listed on SLBoutique, I’ll gift anything great I find to friends. Right, but Spin says there is more to SL than shopping (sometimes I’m shopping for gadgets, most of the time people are just showing me their cool stuff). […]