Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: SL viewer news
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Here's the latest video by Carmen King, a top gaming YouTuber and with nearly 1 million subscribers, easily the most popular SL Youtuber by far, and it's a handy one (along with having her trademark hilarious sass): A basic tutorial for using Second Life. Ms. King has far, far more viewers than Linden Lab's official…
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Lumiya, the popular and impressive SL viewer for Android devices, was removed from Google Play last year, apparently due to a change in Google's policy around apps' use of SMS messages, but it's still available on SlideME, a curated market for Android apps. Since I haven't heard from Lumiya creator Alina Lyvette in many years…
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Black Dragon, the third party Second Life viewer with a cult following among hardcore graphics fans, has a new update that should improve its usability – "Fancy new tooltips, some UI improvements," creator NiranV tells me — and comes with a new feature with a lot of potential for screenshots and machinima:
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Linden Lab is starting to test a new deployment of Second Life running on the Amazon Web Services cloud, beginning with a copy of Blake Sea on the Second Life Preview Grid (known as Aditi) — and virtual world explorer Nodoka Hanamura just arrived from the sea with this video, putting the cloud through its paces in many…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting It’s been a while since Loverdag has been featured here. Because her work is so distinctive, I thought I must have already done a post about her. She is one of my favorite SL artists. But I so loved this unedited photo…
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Demo video by Pepe Kuno, who notes: "Finally smooth. Firestorm was killing me with the lag. Last week's most socially shared post by far is this one on the third party SL viewer known as Alchemy, which suggests to me that many are looking for an alternative to the popular Firestorm viewer. Readers weigh in…
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I'm not too familiar with Alchemy, a third party SL viewer registered on the official Wiki, but YouTuber Luca says (and shows, above) how well it performs versus Firestorm (the most popular SL viewer) — assuming you have a powerful GPU. "I get about 2-3x the performance," Luca tells me. "But generally from people who…
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Last week's most popular post by far is this one about how the Black Dragon viewer now has a setting to take 12,000 by 12,000 images of Second Life. So clearly many were interested in that option. However, this also provoked reader comments like "4K is generally good enough for screenshots" and, of course, "Why?"…
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The Black Dragon viewer for Second Life is beloved for making the ancient and venerable virtual world look like a modern AAA game, but the latest update, "Enhancing Dragon" takes that to an entirely ridiculous level. As creator NiranV explains on his blog: Finally because some people have been nagging about this i've raised the…
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If you have the right kind of glasses and you want to experience Second Life in 3D, Kirstens' Viewer has a brand new update you can download here (for Windows). Though overshadowed by Firestorm and Black Dragon in recent years, Kirstenlee Cinquetti's third party client for Second Life has been among the very best of…
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