![]() I hope Linden Lab realises this and makes a good deal for people with a premium account. So although I am very impressed with SLGo, I fear that the costs may keep a lot of people from using it more than just occasionally. Having said that, the OnLive experience is impressive, there is almost no lag, it loads a lot faster than most computers, it is mobile and it allows you to use your TV for SL. I would only consider doing that for emergencies, when I need to be inworld for a few minutes to fix something or kick a griefer in the unmentionables. Would you pay 3 bucks to go into SL for an hour? Regular OnLive users may be tempted to give this a try and people who’s regular computer can’t handle SL may give it another go, but I am not sure many people will be willing to pay what OnLive are charging for it at the moment. Will this open up SL to a lot of new people? If you plan to become a more regular user, you’ll have to purchase SL minutes packs, ![]() You can read the official Linden Lab announcement here.Īs soon as you’ve signed up, you get a 20 minutes free trial. So why not give it a try yourself right away? OnLive is opening the Beta up to everyone as I write this but they expect to lose the beta label very quickly. You can imagine that as someone who still uses SL regularly, Nate was in a very good position to help SL Go work properly. Nate Barsetti, formerly Scout Linden, has been in SL for 7 years and now works for OnLive. It is no surprise that OnLive managed this so well, one of the people who worked on this is not only a regular and longtime SL resident, he is an ex-Linden! Hopefully this will be possible in the near future and of course you can save your ultra settings made screenshots into your inventory, to be downloaded later. So in short, SL has managed to offer something that once seemed impossible high quality SL for mobile devices.Īt the moment a few things aren’t quite working yet, such as saving snapshots to your hard drive and voice chat. Of course it can’t be compared to the experience of using SL on a Alienware top of the range computer, like I do at home.īut as a mobile way to experience SL, it is a lot better than I could have imagined. I even tried building with it and although it was a little tricky, it worked. You see the regular SL viewer screen but a special overlay user interface has been added that makes using it with a touch screen a lot easier. It does sometimes get a little fuzzy, but I expect that to be due to bad internet connection. SL worked smoothly and without lag even with graphics settings set to ultra.Īnd 1920s Berlin can be a rather laggy place! I went outside with the tablet and tried it in a few public places, quite strange to be visiting 1920s Berlin while sitting on a bench at a canal in Amsterdam! It opens SL up to people who don’t have top of the line computers, it allows everyone to experience SL at the settings it deserves. If my main laptop breaks down again, I can still get to SL. When my SL laptop stopped working I was forced to use the old macbook pro for a while and it was a horrendous experience.īut now, thanks to OnLive, I could visit my favourite sims with pretty much no lag whatsoever and with graphics set to ultra!Īs I don’t really have a need for mobile SL, I found this the most impressive use of the service. OnLive also offers the chance to use SL on your television and also works on other mobile gadgets. SL on my old Mac, regular top screen, SLGo bottom screen. I also have a 5 year old macbook pro that barely managed to run SL at the very very lowest settings, so I tried SL Go on these two devices. Luckily OnLive was kind enough to lend me an android tablet, a whole new experience for me. I am not a very mobile type of person, as some of you may already know, I have a vintage lifestyle and don’t own any modern devices, except my computer that I need for my work. Smooth ad, but Second Life is about so much more than just shopping and dancing… Yes, shadows, dynamic lighting, far distance rendering, it all works! This does not just allow you to use SL on a mobile device, it also means that you get to use it at ultra settings. ![]() OnLive offers ‘cloud gaming’, that means that you’re playing a game on one of their super servers and they stream it live onto your screen via the internet. Imagine being able to use SL on a tablet anywhere you want at ultra settings. ![]() It has been a goal of Linden Lab to try and make SL work on mobile devices for a long time but it has always seemed near impossible. Recently several SL users were invited to review the beta version of a new Second Life service SL Go, by OnLive.
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