Email a copy of 'PixieViewer puts OpenSim in browser' to a friend
Loading ... Loading ...2013-03-09
Loading ...8 Comments
Comments are closed.
Loading ...
Hypergrid Business
Covering virtual reality, immersive worlds, and other emerging technologies
This website uses cookies to improve your experience and to help us and our advertisers understand our audience so that we can grow the OpenSim ecosystem. More specifically, we use Google Analytics to see general information such as what countries people are coming from. We do not see any information at all about individual users. We also have Google AdSense set up. Here, Google might collect information about users in order to customize ads. You can change what information Google collects. Either way, here at Hypergrid Business, we don't see any of it. We also have Disqus set up for our comments system. Disqus only shows us information that you voluntarily share, We do not have any marketing email lists and we used to have a newsletter, a few years ago, but that has since been shut down and all information deleted. Accept Reject Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy
Privacy Overview
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
This is what has been needed for ages and it looks like “the breakthrough product” that would allow OpenSimulator to move beyond it’s limitations from the LL Viewer Codebase. Browser Based Viewer is the way of the future and LL should have done that instead of creating V2/3 Viewers, or at least they should have done it in concert. The days of “proprietary software” with heavy hardware requirements is numbered.
By the end of this year, there will be few if any Third Party Viewers being coded that would be serviceable for OpenSim, as the LL codebase continues to change the way it is. The amount of effort that will is required to exclude A,B,C libraries / code , from viewers connecting to OpenSim and to add in substitutes to continue working without the proprietary LL bits is escalating. It’s not a simple thing to do as it is and there comes a time when it’s simply just not feasible or equitable to continue bashing ones head against the viewer code walls.
Look at Cloud party for example, it’s new, browser based and growing exponentially… Why ? Because it works on most platforms, easy to use, lower learning curve, quicker adoption & acceptance. OpenSim + PixieViewer could become the next wave that takes OpenSimulator into the future and guarantee’s both success, to everyone’s benefit & enjoyment.
Dang… sorry about the messy msg above. The formatting got totally mulched after posting. Makes it a harder read.
I totally agree with you. A platform has to either serve a critical purpose, or keep bringing in new users.
So OpenOffice, say, doesn’t have to worry about recruitment. But, for the most part, Second Life does. And it’s a LOT easier to recruit someone to come to an event or a meeting if all they have to do is click on a link.
It’s a lot harder when you have to tell them to get there an hour early to download the viewer, create their avatar, learn to move around, make sure the voice settings are working… by the time you get through all that, even the most loyal friend will be ready to abandon you to the wolves.
And even when Second Life is serving a critical purpose — in schools, or companies — having to download the viewer and get through the corporate firewall is also a huge, huge, huge obstacle.
Mobile Firefox gave best results on Android Nexus 7 (compared to Chrome, Dolphin and mobile Opera). Tended to get locked into movement mode though otherwise very promising.
It appears that MSIE 10 is as yet unsupported. As I won’t use Firefox or Chrome, means I’ll have to wait a tad longer to be able to test. It’s a shame really, as the “packaging on the box” makes this sound very promising indeed.
And I had a go with it.. http://fablabflevoland.blogspot.nl/2013/03/mijn-cirkel-is-rond.html it is in Dutch but at the end you get the hang of it. So cool!
Hello all. Anyone here with insights regarding how pixieviewer might work with Active Worlds? I’m assuming that there would be the same problem as with SL, but would be very, very excited to hear otherwise. Thanks.
Made a visit there a few days ago. The avatars look quite different. Will it work with “only” an additional module, or will the OpenSIM server’s engine need more changes, like RealXtend did in the Past ?