Tag: mobile

Second Life Mobile: first look – Second Life: YouTube
Let’s face it, this isn’t the first time we’ve tried to build a mobile viewer because of course we want to have all of the glory of Second Life in our pocket, but honestly this is the most exciting result we’ve seen so far. We really wanted to start with the hardest things first. Hardest? Avatars and beautiful world views and we wanted to make sure that our app works on all platforms and so it is with joy and trepidation that we share with you the early results of these efforts.

Official Second Life iOS/Android mobile app on Unity revealed “with joy & trepidation”, starting with avatars & world display – New World Notes
Curiously, an earlier version of this project was going to focus on chat and other utility functions, but now Linden Lab is focusing on avatar and beautiful scene rendering. (Though on this video, at least, the world’s draw distance appears quite low, and textures are similarly low res.) However, Linden Lab says they intend for the mobile version to have “pretty much” all the functionality of the desktop version — eventually. “Last half of this year” is the target release date for a limited beta which will also have avatar chat.