Update on the new mobile viewer.

Imnotgoing Sideways

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

Edit. I just noticed that's my exterior wall texture.
 
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It's available to everyone now (or has been - they posted this on Thursday).


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.
 
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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

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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
 

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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.