Update on the new mobile viewer.

[Free]

It definitely is terribad.
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Is that you, Thanos?

 

[Cristiano]

Is that you, Thanos?

Apparently after the snap.

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

Looks like BoM is broke bad so far. Runs the phone HOT too. (>_<)

Edit. I just noticed that's my exterior wall texture.

 

[Free]

It's available to everyone now (or has been - they posted this on Thursday).

Second Life Mobile is here!

The much-anticipated Second Life Mobile Beta is here – and it’s available now to everyone! With Second Life Mobile, you can: Socialize & Stay Connected - Chat with both text and spatialized voice, you can keep up with your virtual friends and communities. Take your conversations anywhere and ...

community.secondlife.com

They've long since dealt with skin displaying as a black void. My avatar looks as expected. I do like the ghostly outline of ones initial avatar at login, rather than the cloud in the desktop viewer.

Movement controls...I'm getting the hang of things, but they're twitchy as fuck.

I find it bothersome I need to have "signed out" previously to see the login screen upon opening the viewer.

The major issue is I've yet to get more than 10 minutes into a session before something goes haywire, and I either stop seeing the world refresh, the world goes into some funky visual mode (I enjoy when an outlined doppelganger of myself appears, nametag and all), or the session crashes with no indication I'm no longer online, other than when I try to chat with someone.

I'll may have to try it at some point on my Android Tablet, because in it's present form using it on my phone is pure comedy.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I find it bothersome I need to have "signed out" previously to see the login screen upon opening the viewer.

I think that's because the OS can kill your app at any time and it has to come back like it never left.

or the session crashes with no indication I'm no longer online, other than when I try to chat with someone.

Man, I haven't had that happen in years. Used to happen all the time on the desktop.

 

[Faithless Babii]

As I was going on holiday last week I thought Id give the app another whirl to keep in contact with my partner. I just don't see the point in it? Its so limited compared to the usual SL I know and love. Cant work out how to save an outfit - and If I previously logged out naked I cant get dressed. Cant really use anything such as furniture menus. I haven't tried shopping - but I guess that's not working? Cant see my inventory - rez anything...and on and on and on

 

[Casey Pelous]

... and If I previously logged out naked ...

 

[Madi Perth]

LL is paying people in lindens, to log in on consecutive days, with the mobile app. The program is called Streaks

Looks like LL found a way to get me to try the mobile app after all.

 

[Adeon Writer]

Linden Lab doesn't often impress me. They did a very impressive job with the mobile viewer, though. I expected them to just throw cloud streaming at it and make you pay a subscription, but they actually got it running locally on mobile, which while I knew it could be done, is not what I expected them to actually try to do. They did it right?! Not that it doesn't have a long way to go of course. And as always I feel it's too late.

What confounds me though, is with all this effort getting it running on mobile hardware, why couldn't they have made a browser version of the viewer for PC, that would have saved SL back in the day.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

They don't seem to do flexies right. I have a rat avatar with a flexy tail that shows up as a kind of spear hovering behind him.

 

[Free]

Dear Linden Lab,

I get that phones continue to be a bad long-term storage device. We won't be maintaining our movie collections on them anytime soon.

With that said, why do I need to reload my avatar and worn items upon every teleport? The viewer is using up 4.22 GB of space on my phone as of right now. The Cache is at 247 MB. Can't some of that be looking after my current appearance?

Just wondering.

Love and Corndogs,
Free

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

They also seem to render rigged mesh slightly differently. My TWI grey fox has Neanderthal eye-ridges and a generally malnourished-looking body on mobile.

 

[Noodles]

I have tried , but the mobile viewer just feels so off. I am probably just so used to the full viewer, which probably doesn't help at all. But also, I really don't like any 3D game experiences on my phone. Puzzles, some 2D stuff, fine, anything 3D with camera controls? Yikes.

 

[Dancien]

I'm going to ask a probably dumb question. What is the expected product usage for this?

 

[Fionalein]

I'm going to ask a probably dumb question. What is the expected product usage for this?

accepting bribes - err streak rewards?
I see no usability so far, it's a great testrun for a Unity based desktop viewer though.

 

[Khamon]

The mobile viewer works well for me. My avatar is super simple but he runs and flies and the surroundings render pretty well. Chat works okay, at least with individuals, haven't tried group chat yet. It's pretty handy for popping in to quickly see something, relocate, or meet someone for tea.

 

[Adeon Writer]

I'm going to ask a probably dumb question. What is the expected product usage for this?

Older Zoomers, who will be 30 in only 2 or 3 years, have their own kids and their own houses, are the age group that Linden Lab mainly needs to attract if they are to survive.

They are known, among many other things, for simply not having personal computers compared to other generations. Modern life rarely needs them outside of the workplace, if that. Smartphones and tablets cover basically any use case a desk in the corner of the house would, while gaming, if they game at all, goes to consoles.

The mouse + keyboard interface is slowly aging out in casual home use.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

If they want to attract any users to this product they need to do something about its many missing features. It's way behind Lumiya and even that was something one would use in extremis only.