Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: SL viewer news
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Well this is exciting — the first video preview of Crystal Frost, the upcoming third party viewer for Second Life that runs in Unity. Created by SLer and longtime developer Berry Bunny (Kallisti#2038 on Discord), the frame rate is a bit slow, but the graphic enhancements are pretty clear. And yes, the wandering cube is…
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Click here to join the Discord server for Crystal Frost, the Second Life viewer on Unity project I blogged last week and the brainchild of longtime dev Berry Bunny (Kallisti#2038 on Discord). Starting today at Noon PT, Bunny's going to livestream her development of Crystal Frost there, an eventually announce the release of a usable…
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Above: "Vastly more realistic lighting. This is a sunset in Crystal Frost." SLer Berry Bunny (Kallisti#2038 on Discord) is a longtime developer who's been working on various Second Life projects for well over 15 years. Along with some impressive in-world games, she's done mixed reality projects for Italia Telecom and a nursing school experimenting with…
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As promised last week, here's video of /RealEvilInd running Second Life on Steam Deck — on Firestorm, specifically, the most popular 3rd party viewer for SL. Framerate looks quite good, and most of the basic activities in SL (walking, interacting with store items, etc.) look fairly easy. You can even use the Steam Deck's touchscreen…
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SL Redditor /RealEvilind recently posted this tantalizing image, showing Second Life running on Steam Deck, the handheld videogame console from Valve, and they report it gets pretty great performance: This is Firestorm running on the Steam Deck pretty well. It pulls off 30 – 40 FPS in a normal crowded area, on high, with ambient…
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I haven't heard back from Linden Lab about users of the Lumiya mobile app having trouble logging in, but this announcement from Alex Linden is probably apropos: Monday we had login issues preventing certain viewers from logging in to agni. We now have a fix deployed to aditi. If you observed login issues with an…
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I've received multiple user reports that Lumiya, the very popular Android app for accessing Second Life on mobile, has not been able to access Second Life in recent days, with users failing to get past the login process (see pic at right). I'm reaching out to Linden Lab now for an update. The third party…
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"Won't be going to Fortnite if there's no custom [avatars]," writes Juliette Jones in a post on that topic, "but frankly SL's performance issues cannot be 'solved' without expending an immense amount of money on Linden Lab's part to transfer Second Life completely off of OpenGL framework." Here's why, as she sees it: OpenGL has…
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Reader David Cheney recently tried out these detailed instructions for running Second Life on an Oculus Quest 2 via Firestorm ("This is a lot of fun and works pretty well!"), and added some further tips in Comments: On my cabled Quest 2 I had to take a couple of steps I found at the VR Firestorm…
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There's a new update to Black Dragon, the SL viewer with a cult following for making Second Life look like a AAA game and for giving users great features for virtual photography and machinima. Speaking of which, here's a new Black Dragon photography tutorial from SL YouTuber and apparent Fleabag cast member Boston Blaisdale. It…
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