After being pointed to a tweet mentioning “Project Skylight” involving some sort of browser-based access to Second Life, I asked Linden Lab about it. After all, such efforts were supposed to have been abandoned or at least indefinitely on hold during the war against crashes and lag. Or so I thought.
The Lab was surprisingly prompt in responding (thanks for that!):
One of our goals is to make it easier and faster for people to together experience the fun and immersive content Second Life has to offer.
We plan to test a number of ways to better provide that for more people, including a way to experience Second Life without having to download the full Second Life Viewer, and we’re testing that with SL Web Viewer in the next few weeks. As it’s just a test, we don’t have more information to share at this point.
These tests will run from time to time and for various lengths, and we may choose to further pursue some or none of these approaches, depending on what we learn from our testing.
Update:
It’s been pointed out to me (I should have asked if I could mention his name) that there seem to be a lot of accounts that are quite possibly related to this.
This is fun stuff!! A window into SL and Events is a great PR tool and viral. I am going to checkout all the places that are on record as being part of this Beta. This market is untapped until now. Think of the free advertising folks. Woot!!
All this will mean is that i will get Chat Lag on my ipad!
well one of my goals is to win the lottery, doesn’t mean it is happening anytime soon
but it would be nice (and probably not allow for building eh? just using)
sweet! *fingers crossed*
Imagine your surfing the web.. you viewing a web page.. just like this one… you hit a button.. and the page appears to zoom out (getting smaller)… and as it does.. it reveals an entire 3D world around it and you as a avatar standing in front of a sign that is the web page… Others that are viewing the web page are there as well… and some are chatting on your story.. while others are chatting on a different story..
This could be very kewl stuff.
[...] esto pasa de ser sólo un rumor. El blogger Tateru Nino ya recibió confirmación por parte de Linden Lab de que las pruebas se están produciendo, por lo que puede que pronto [...]
Oh wow .. Hundreds of people called “Guest128813554177842 Visitor” Single use throw away accounts, accounts with generated user names and real names pull from facebook or whatever.
Thank you LL, really.
[...] therefore, must be exactly the target audience for the browser-based interface the Lab is rumoured to be working on. I’m obviously no expert in this area, but I do wonder [...]
My only reaction would be to quote an old wise person;
….. “And if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a wagon.”
Given that rezzable has already got an alpha version of this working with opensim (and unit3d *combined*!) this is definitely doable technically.
A huge group of newbies that can’t buy anything because they don’t have lindens and fill up the sim, shouting obscenities while I try to IM each one that it is a PG sim. Wonderful.