Remote SL: Control Another Resident's Avatar With Conferencing Software

Buddy Sprocket of Learning Games was playing around with a conferencing software called Yugma, which lets you share access and viewing of your desktop, when he discovered a very useful hack:  the program can be used to remotely run the Second Life client on another Yugma user's computer.  "While the frame rate sucked," he tells me, "it works well enough to control Second Life running on a remote machine.  Main useful application of this is in SL training when working with new Residents not yet used to the user interface."  Read about it here.

Comments

[Robustus Hax]

Yes, GoToMyPC does this as well. Very hard to control avatar movement however good enough to do a few things.

[Matheu]

We have http://www.rhubcom.com turbomeeting for remote support for both MAC and PC in a box. It has a help desk functionality to quickly resolve customer problems on the first call itself..but this controlling residential Avatar feature is something I never saw in turbomeeting..Wanna looking great from the screenshot though..