NWN Partners with OnLive to Expand Second Life Coverage

SL Go is a Second Life streaming service I'm very proud to have helped OnLive launch as a consultant, and now I'm also proud to announce SL Go is a sponsoring partner of New World Notes, working with us to expand our first-person, in-world coverage of Second Life. In my very biased opinion, SL Go is the best solution for using and exploring SL with high-end graphics and low lag across multiple devices -- so I'll be putting my embedded virtual journalist hat back on, and exploring Second Life in its fully optimized glory. (Which just launched on iPads too.)

More on that soon, but for now, here's a fascinating factoid I just got from OnLive product manager Dennis Harper:

While SL Go is available for Android, iOS, low end laptops, and OnLive's own console box, about half of SL Go subscribers use it to access Second Life through their old PCs and Macs. I'm not surprised, because that's mainly how I log into SL too. In fact, that application is actually what convinced me that this is a service worth supporting -- it turned a laptop of mine that was totally incompatible and endlessly buggy with Second Life into a seamless, enjoyable way of experiencing SL. (As above.) More on that later, but for now, tell us where we should go with SL Go.

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[Kim Anubis]

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[UCMO]

Can I login to Metropolis grid via OnLive SL Go service?

[Issa Heckroth]

Any time you post a message or communication on an OnLive sponsored forum, or create, post, upload, submit, share or distribute any content through the use of the OnLive Game Service including but not limited to any public forums on the OnLive Game Service or play a game on the OnLive Game Service, including any screen name, tag, handle, motto, avatar video or still, and including contributions via video, voice and text chat, text messaging, forums, message boards, whether within or outside a game (any such message, communication, content or play, collectively, “Game Service User Generated Content or Game Service UGC”), a fairly dies.

:/

[Adeon Writer]

@OpenSim

Oh boy can't wait to ditch my inventory, friends, avatar, and marketplace to get some land on a private server.

[UCMO]

Hmmmm... Nope, doesn't seem to allow me to access other grids such as Metropolis. Speed is great however, but constant compression blurring is annoying. Using the iPad version. Controls are ok, do not like the avatar control while walking, jumps to hard degrees when changing directions and is overly sensitive. Also the page up/down controls are nearly impossible to use while flying an aircraft (used for throttle), waaaaaaay too sensitive. I am used to combining applying to arrow keys at same time on a keyboard to adjust my avatar direction. Doesn't seem to be possible on the iPad version. Also, not a fan of the default distance from the avatar, makes it impossible to navigate within buildings unless you enter mouse look view. I will stick with my 2 year old, $600 computer. Inputs are much more reliable, and the graphics/speed are nearly the same with a mid-range Nvidia card installed.