Lab Begins Limted Testing of Browser-Based Viewer

 

For those who've been curious about what Second Life would be like if played on a web browser, now's your chance to find out. Yesterday, Thursday January 2, Linden Lab announced it was starting up tests of a browser-based Second Life viewer, inviting residents to give it a try. 

Starting today, Second Life residents can help us test access to Second Life directly through the browser, with no download or GPU required.  Initial testing will use the standard viewer UI, but in the next phase of work we will dramatically simplify the user interface, with the overall goal of greatly improving the accessibility of Second Life for a larger audience.     

To give it a try, residents need to click on zero.secondlife.com. You should then see a screen that looks like the picture on the left. The Lab stated that there will likely be a wait time to log on this way, and that browser sessions are limited to ten minutes.

 

The Lab would go on to say that starting next week, some new residents signing up "will be randomly selected to experience their first Second Life session through their browser during the sign-up process. " 

The Lab is calling the name of the project Project Zero, "because our goal is to reduce to zero the barriers to getting into Second Life:  the system requirements, the possibility of not being able to install or crashing, and the many barriers present to getting accustomed to the interface."

 

Firestorm and other third-party viewers will not be involved. 

 

To read the announcement in full, Click Here. 

 

Hat Tip: Eric Mondrain, Pantera Polnocy

  

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