Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: SL viewer news
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This post brought to you by New World Note sponsoring partner Bad Unicorn, creator of the new combat-ready UFO Beamer! It's been awhile since I've blogged about Crystal Frost, the crowdfunded project to convert Second Life and OpenSim to Unity for PC and VR. The good news is it's still chugging along, with a usable…
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One fun thing about writing about Second Life for The Atlantic was going through a rigorous fact-checking process. Take this passage: The utopian paradox even extends into how Second Life was developed by employees at Linden Lab. Under the idealistic direction of Rosedale and his CTO Cory Ondrejka, the startup operated with a no-managers, "choose…
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I mentioned the Unity-based mobile app for Second Life this week, so I should also mention the latest update to Crystal Frost, the crowdfunded project to convert Second Life to Unity for PC and VR. "Provided I can figure out a few rigging issues, I should have the base Linden avatars and body shapes fully…
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Just posted by Linden Lab: This long-awaited update to the Unity-based Second Life app for smartphones project teased back in March. In all honesty that early preview seemed a bit pokey, but the current build being unveiled now is much more impressive. "It looks like they're greatly limiting the texture resolution, which makes a lot…
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Here's a pretty major new update to Crystal Frost, the Patreon-funded project to port Second Life to Unity 3D: Not only has lead developer Berry Bunny (Kallisti#2038 in Discord) uploaded the default SL avatar to Unity, this month she's going to make that avatar freely available for other Unity projects. "I'll be releasing it as a…
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In case you missed it amid last week's hoopla over Linden Lab's announcement that they are (finally) developing a native mobile for Second Life built on Unity, there already is a user-run project to bring Second Life to Unity. It's called Crystal Frost, and it's still going full-guns. pai "It's not going to change," as…
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UPDATE, 9:00PM PT: Updated for weekend viewing fun! BREAKING NOW: A prediction of mine that's coming true this year sooner than I expected — an official native Second Life app for iOS and Android mobile devices. Watch the announcement above, made "with joy and trepidation"! The latter probably because the project has been in the…
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Above: Current version of Chat/IM user interface on Crystal Frost Many SLers are excited about Berry Bunny's Crystal Frost, the Second Life-on-Unity project, because of graphics enhancements like physics- enabled water. In Comments, veteran metaverse developer Gwyneth Llewelyn notes how this will also enable the community to improve the user interface: By pushing the rendering…
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Starting in a few hours, members of Crystal Frost's Patreon can finally get their hands on Second Life's first viewer running on Unity. "The project is currently still in Alpha stage," lead creator Berry Bunny (Kallisti#2038 in Discord) warns, "so there are some performance issues, a number of bugs, and other issues. So anybody signing…
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Above: Improved water physics and in-world chat It's finally here: Next week Friday (March 3), people will get their first chance to try out Crystal Frost, the upcoming Second Life viewer that runs on Unity 3D. To be among the very first, become a "Jacked In" or "Snowcrashed" level member of the project's Patreon here.…
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