Touch Life for iPhone: Hands-On Review (From My Tub!)

Last week, Chestnut Rau dropped by my office in Waterhead to take a photo of me laying in my bathtub. That was made possible by Touch Life, a new app, which logs you into Second Life via your iPhone. I ponied up the three bucks to try it for myself, and I've been using it fairly often since. Unlike Sparkle, an earlier iPhone app, Touch Life logs in your full avatar, not a disembodied, glowing cloud. (As you can see from Chestnut's photo.) That's cool; also cool is the new app gives you limited inventory management, so you can for example transfer an object to an SL friend. As you can see by the view from my tub (inset above) I especially like the ability to take iPhone photos and upload them directly to your Second Life account, a feature with a lot of mixed reality potential. (Unfortunately, the app's inventory menu doesn't have a search function, or list items chronologically, so it's difficult to immediately transfer a photo you just took.) The app seems to run pretty slowly at times, and occasionally locks up altogether, but for the asking price, and the functionality it provides-- definitely worth the purchase.

Comments

[Wildstar Beaumont]

any idea about the bandwidth taken by the application ?