Thanks to all who came out over Saturday afternoon—it was very cool to meet you in (virtual) person. For any of you who couldn’t make it, or turned up lateish, do let us know what days and times would work better for you in future: there’s a thread over on the forum, or just drop us a line at betatest at justleapin dot com.

Happy leaping (outdoors or indoors).

Hiya folks,

Welcome to Spring!

For everyone interested in meeting your fellow beta testers, playing some games together, and brainstorming with us about how to take JLI to the next level, we’re planning to hold our first live online get-together on Saturday May 30th at 12:00 noon Pacific time (which is 3pm for those of you on the East coast, 8pm in London, wherever in the world you are…)

If you can get online and join us and other community members then, we’d love to meet you! Hopefully this will be the first of many events, with a forum to talk about JLI and other stuff, and try some new, shared activities.

Looking forward to seeing you online…

You may also have noticed some updates on JLI recently—notably a new Groups function, which lets you cluster favorites in one place, or make your spaces privately available to a select group of friends or colleagues. When we meet on Saturday, we’d like to invite your thoughts on what features should come next.

• New spaces (including an underwater world and conferencing space)
• Two new avatars
• Autoplaying soundtracks (user-configurable via right-click or control-click)
• Link any 3D object to launch a webpage
• Increased duration limits for audio and video clips (5m each)
• Experimental new prop: an expoding barrel. With physics. By popular request (!); You might have fun with this one. :-)
• Stability updates for networking and some other functionality

More news coming soon…

PS – We’re seeing some issues with double-click (zoom) navigation in Mac clients in this release. We’re looking into it.