Firestorm Replacing Second Life's Official Viewer on SL Go for Android & iOS Tablets

Janine "Iris Ophelia" Hawkins' ongoing review of gaming and virtual world style

OnLive's just announced that by popular demand the third-party Second Life viewer Firestorm is available to users of SL Go on iOS and Android, starting today. Not only that, but Firestorm will be completely replacing the official viewer for SL Go on mobile devices. That means no more vanilla viewer, and given Firestorm's popularity that's not a bad thing.

Firestorm has been one of the most successful third party Second Life viewer for years now, and it became available through SL Go's desktop client for the first time last December. It did not see a mobile launch at the same time, however, because only one viewer could be supported in SL Go's app. Naturally this meant that the official viewer took precedent over the unofficial upstart. But Firestorm is a ridiculously popular viewer. Even in SL Go's narrower ecosystem that remained the case, and it's because of this popularity that Firestorm will be completely replacing the official Second Life viewer for SL Go on Android and iOS. It's another example of OnLive and SL Go listening to their community, coming hot on the heels of their recent decision to accept payment in L$. Of course viewer purists need not worry too much: You'll still have your choice of Firestorm or the official viewer when you log in to SL Go on your desktop or laptop.

You can check out SL Go by OnLive here (if you haven't already). If you're already fan of SL Go on your mobile device but have never dipped your toes into Firestorm on your PC, be sure to check out this video I did highlighting some of my favorite features. (Full disclosure: That video was sponsored by OnLive, though this post is not.)

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Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart on Twitter, Iris Ophelia in Second Life) has been writing about virtual worlds and video games for nearly a decade, and has had her work featured on Paste, Kotaku, Jezebel and The Mary Sue.

Comments

[UCMO]

Can I access alternative grids, such as Metropolis???

[Jjccc]

Just got a tablet so i downloaded sl go on google play logged in and tried to start it but it wont let me in so i gave up its a waste of time. i not going to every add credit card info since second life is rated by my bank as a corupt organisation i get a text from the fraud department if it involves second life. so unless its made free i wont ever be using it