SL Go from OnLive is now compatible with Firestorm on Mac and PC, I'm very proud to help the cloud-based streaming service annnounce. (OnLive's a sponsoring partner of NWN.) You can read more about this new service on the official site of Firestorm, which is one of the most popular Second Life viewers -- in fact, at least since 2012, more popular than even the official SL viewer.
This news comes after months of secret development led by Dennis Harper of OnLive and Firestorm project lead Jessica Lyon, who just told me why she wants her viewer to work with SL Go:
"The selling point for me about the onlive service was when Dennis pointed out a large chunk of their SL Go subscriptions are folks using it on their old computers," Jessica tells me. "The fact that it allows people on older machines to experience SL in full ultra graphics, in all its glory really excited me. We have heard from so many people about how they've been pushed away from SL due to its evolving graphical improvements surpassing the capabilities of their machines. This allows them to experience SL again without having to invest large amounts of money to upgrade their systems."
That's why I also think this is such a cool addition to SL Go (as biased as I am to say so). Later in the week, Iris will post a short tutorial video on using Firestorm for PC and Mac with SL Go, by the way, so stay turned for that.
Firestorm will eventually be available on SL Go for mobile, but for now (and just in time for the holidays), if you love using Firestorm on an old Mac or PC, you can try streaming Second Life on it now.
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Good move. Though I still say an entire GUI redo with tablets in mind is very due. But this will make SLGo much more comfortable on a PC, giving people a more familiar GUI.
Posted by: Adeon Writer | Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 05:22 PM
(By the way, the iPad is 4:3 ratio. It would be really nice to be able to play with the full screenspace without zooming in.)
Posted by: Adeon Writer | Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 05:31 PM
I like the Firestorm version of SLGo much better. The sizes of the chat, inventory & other windows is a lot more reasonable. You cannot upload wind lights, but the Firestorm version comes with a very generous selection of wind lights.
I can't email the pics to myself for some reason (they never get sent, but sending them to flickr works great. I took a couple of 5000x2813 images and sent them to directly to flickr. They look great!
The only thing I hope I can do is change my flickr, because I want to upload them to my husband's flickr (he doesn't use it) so I don't clog up my main flickr feed with photos I'm just going to download, crop, and use half. Does anyone know if it's possible to change the flickr preference?
Posted by: Tracy RedAngel | Wednesday, December 17, 2014 at 04:13 AM
I've been using SLGO on both desktop and tablet since it became available. I have noticed since the announcement of FS being an option that it's far harder to log in, especially at peak times if I choose the Firestorm viewer option. Oddly,if I choose LL viewer as the client I get in far quicker. Is this because the clients are hosted on different servers ? It just seems strange that suddenly I get far more "unable to launch game" errors since FS became available.
Posted by: Mondy Bristol | Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 03:05 AM
Hamlet, with the addition of Firestorm, now you can SLGo to OpenSimulator grids even with your older computer. There are a lot of interesting stories for you there. Some of the places you can visit are listed at http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/statistics/active-grids/
Posted by: Kim Anubis | Friday, December 19, 2014 at 02:15 PM