Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: SL viewer news
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Silivren Atheria shot this amazing picture using the new Aperture viewer recently added to the approved third-party viewers for Second Life. (Read Hamlet’s write-up and interview with lead developer William Weaver here.) It is a viewer created for photography and folks are…
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Originally published on my Patreon. Since then, Weaver tells me Aperture has been downloaded over 1500 times and has been added to Linden Lab's official Third Party Viewer Directory What you're watching above is the birth of a new Second Life viewer — but in a real sense, it's also the culmination of the creator's…
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About Aperture: Why William Weaver Created a Whole New Way of Seeing Second Life — New on My Patreon
Now on my Patreon (free to read for all members), I talk with William Weaver about the Aperture Viewer, his attempt to completely reinvent how we see and screen-capture Second Life that shows off all the graphics features now possible in the virtual world — even to SLers who don’t have a high-end PC. Among…
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Here's the results of my New World Notes survey last week, asking SLers what's the most they would be willing to pay for the new Project Zero option of streaming Firestorm/Second Life on a browser. As you can see above, a strong majority aren't interested in any option, even one that's free with advertising. About 15% were…
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Loading… Project Zero now has a Firestorm option, so you can stream Second Life on a browser using the virtual world's most popular viewer, with an introductory discount price of 5 hours for L$250: Go here quickly to get the special offer. However, that's not likely to be the price when this option is officially…
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Courtesy Spooky Pumpkins, owner of the Wraith brand in SL (socials & links here), watch this seriously cool new feature for Firestorm, now available in preview. Explains Spooky: "If you use their poser, you'll now see a gizmo on each bone… and on-screen selection for the bones. You can legit rotate [bones] from the joint…
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BREAKING: Linden Lab Test Launches Browser-Based Streaming for Second Life — And You Can Try it Now!
Above: At my office in Waterhead via Project Zero Starting now — and starting 2025 with guns blazing — you can try out browser-based streaming of Second Life, enabling you to experience the virtual world with maximum graphics settings displayed on a web browser, even on low-end PCs/laptops — go here to access it for…
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Now that PBR graphics are fully launched on Second Life, we're seeing a barrage of pics and videos showing off reflective/mirror effects made possible from physically based rendering. But it's this video of a swimming pool created by SL content creator Bhad Craven which recently caught my eye — watch. It's not so much the…
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As noted yesterday, quite a few SLers are having a poor experience with the new PBR upgrade to Firestorm, by far the most popular viewer for Second Life. Fortunately, as Firestorm project lead Beq recently detailed for me, there are a number of fixes and perspective shifts available. The starting point is understanding how the…
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Here's the results of my survey on the PBR upgrade in Firestorm, which brought in 177 responses. (A pretty large sample size, as these things go.) Asked how it's changed their overall Second Life experience, a plurality — nearly 1 in 3 respondents — chose "Much worse than before". That's compared to 20% who said…
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