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Hippo Opensim
For those of us who have branched out from Second Life and started exploring the Open Sim world, there is good news. Before, you had to create and rename a new shortcut of the SL Viewer, go into the properties, change the "loginuri, put in a url and a port, and you were done. A pretty daunting task for a casual traveler through Virtuality. Now along comes Hippo Opensim Viewer:
This nifty piece of software allows you to merely choose a grid....and go! It will access quite a number of grids including SL itself. All you need is an account for the grid so you can log in.
There is a button at the bottom called "Grid" that brings up a choice menu box.
You then select a grid from the menu (there a quite a few), either set it as default or just hit apply and your done. You then log on using your name & password and it loads up. You can also add new grids. I added ReactionGrid by following the steps provided and it worked fine. You have to register with the grid you want to enter of course. Then you log in and go;
ReactionGrid
Avatar Hangout
The plusses to this are obvious:
1 All your access is in one program.
2. Will make the concept of a portable Avatar, such as MYRL is working on, easy to deploy
3; It just plain works, and works well.
Let's face it. Whether you like the Second Life concept and architecture or not, the Lindens have made a profound impact on Virtual Reality. This idea and others are going to take the concept to a whole new level.
Get the viewer at : http://opensim-viewer.sourceforge.net/
See this article and more at:
This nifty piece of software allows you to merely choose a grid....and go! It will access quite a number of grids including SL itself. All you need is an account for the grid so you can log in.
There is a button at the bottom called "Grid" that brings up a choice menu box.
You then select a grid from the menu (there a quite a few), either set it as default or just hit apply and your done. You then log on using your name & password and it loads up. You can also add new grids. I added ReactionGrid by following the steps provided and it worked fine. You have to register with the grid you want to enter of course. Then you log in and go;
ReactionGrid
Avatar Hangout
The plusses to this are obvious:
1 All your access is in one program.
2. Will make the concept of a portable Avatar, such as MYRL is working on, easy to deploy
3; It just plain works, and works well.
Let's face it. Whether you like the Second Life concept and architecture or not, the Lindens have made a profound impact on Virtual Reality. This idea and others are going to take the concept to a whole new level.
Get the viewer at : http://opensim-viewer.sourceforge.net/
See this article and more at:
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Peters on -
with such a review - i am going to get the viewer - lets see how good it is !!
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Peters on
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seems it not mac ready is this true
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Permalink Reply by Bruce Lehmann on -
At the moment it seems to be ported for Windows XP, Vista and for Linux. With the Linux port already there, Mac shouldn't that hard to port for. Maybe in the future. I wish that more things were ported for MAC. I would fire my G$ up in a minute for that.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Peters on
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so hippo is not PERFECT :-)
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Permalink Reply by Bruce Lehmann on
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Nothiong is :-)
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Peters on
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aint that a fact
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Permalink Reply by Avatar Hangout on -
here is a download for mac users that works and is up to date
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/51818/HippoOpenSimViewer-040.dmg
I did not make the Viewer but I am happy to share with everyone the link I give people wanting to check out Avatar Hangout.
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