Yesterday on March 5, Linden Lab announced a new application on the market, this one for Second Life users: SL Go. This product allows residents to run Second Life on tablets. It is currently in open beta.
OnLive, the leader in cloud gaming, today released an exciting new service for Second Life users. SL Go,
now in open beta, is a mobile Second Life viewer for Android that
delivers a fully immersive desktop-like experience on tablets.
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With SL Go, you can experience Second Life from anywhere
you have Wi-Fi or 4G connectivity, with ultra high-quality graphics,
full shaders, shadows, and the Advanced Lightning Model on Android
devices. Not only can you get high-quality graphics on a low-powered
device, but you also don’t have to sacrifice frame rate or draw distance
for high fidelity inworld explorations. Thanks to super-fast gigabit
connections with OnLive’s high-performance gaming servers, objects and
textures rez quickly when logging in and teleporting. OnLive has clocked
the SL Go viewer at upwards of 200 fps set to Ultra with Maximum Render
Distance, allowing people to participate in events, engage in combat
games, and generally enjoy immersion in Second Life at a level never
before possible on a mobile device.
With SL Go, OnLive has brought touchscreen interaction to
the Second Life experience, but if you prefer keyboard and mouse, you
can opt to connect these devices and interact with your friends in the
same way you always have. SL Go gives you access to edit menus,
inventory, preference settings and chat management just like the Second
Life Viewer on your home computer.
To use the application, one needs an account with Onlive. New users get a 20 minute free trial, after which residents need to pay to use it, from $3 an hour, to $8 for three hours, to $25 for ten hours. For now, it is limited to the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
This is clearly a major move for Linden Lab and Second Life, one in development for many months.
More information later on SL Go and what others are saying about it.
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