Comments on: New Second Life 2.0 Viewer Not Yet in View

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Second Life and the Web: The New Dashboard

Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Second Life and the Web: The New Dashboard — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:41:57 +0000

[...] sinking moments, like the recent post of the “New” Second Life viewer, which turned out not to be new at all, just a sort of pencil sketch of some interface things that wasn’t really meant to be [...]

By: Tateru Nino

Tateru Nino — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:35:06 +0000

I’m expecting more of the UI to be redone in the popout designs they’re using for the new elements. Probably much of the work at the moment involves trying to get the UI layer to support anything more sophisticated than what is already there.

By: David

David — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:45:28 +0000

Hey, worst case scenario, we can just switch to Hippo Viewer, which is very, very similar to the current SL viewer.

Hear that, LL? PLEASE do EXTENSIVE testing and tweaking, with LOTS of your current users, before forcing it on us, er I mean rolling it out.

By: Dusan

Dusan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:12:20 +0000

Tateru – Commented on Massively but 1) the Lab is sending mixed signals, perhaps scrambling, or perhaps purposefully sending out trial balloons and 2) ugh. Seriously, if this is anything like where they’re truly at after all this time, then I’ve been misplacing my faith that they can solve the devilish issues of the viewer, orientation, search and balancing the needs of residents with new users and enterprise.

By: Tateru Nino

Tateru Nino — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:43:11 +0000

As near as I can tell, the build we got is the latest build. There’s no evidence to suggest that there was a newer one (actually there was one about 20 hours after we got the first one, but it did not differ in any substantive detail). What we do know is that the builds we obtained are “hot off the presses” from the internal development code — but perhaps not what someone actually is building on their desktop with code that hasn’t been checked in.

By: Dusan

Dusan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:29:06 +0000

I must sound incredibly snarky about this whole thing…I commented over on the Metaverse Journal, one of my favorite sites, as well….and maybe came across as a little defensive…

But really….as I comment there:

“I’m still shuddering in horror if this is anything like what the final release will look like. I suppose I am pleading or begging, in a way, to make this picture I now have of “SL 2.0″ go AWAY.

I’ve placed faith that Howard and M will help to solve some of the major riddles of the interface, the first hour, and other things… and if this is as far as they’ve gotten, my faith would frankly sink like a lead balloon.”

By: HatHead Rickenbacker

HatHead Rickenbacker — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:50:00 +0000

“Otherwise, if the new viewer comes anywhere close to what Tateru posted, then I’m building my own.”

Sign me up.

By: Doubledown Tandino

Doubledown Tandino — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:55:55 +0000

Yeah, I think we mostly saw a buzz and a flitter twitter about the intriguing aspects of the screenshots. People jumped in to discuss.
… the thought of the change to what tateru presented I think it where the hype is stemming from. I think its way to early to know anything.