{"id":269,"date":"2009-06-15T04:42:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2009-06-15T04:42:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T11:42:08","slug":"fifteen-alternate-second-life-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/fifteen-alternate-second-life-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen alternate Second Life viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 10px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meerkat Second Life viewer logo\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" style=\"padding-bottom: 5px\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/meerkat-256.jpg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Do you know that there are other ways of viewing <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\">Second Life<\/a> than the standard Second Life viewer? There are in fact at least fifteen Second Life viewers other than those created by Second Life. The picture on the right is the logo of one of them, the Meerkat Viewer. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.secondlife.com\/wiki\/Alternate_viewers\">Second Life Wiki<\/a> lists the following alternate viewers, and has download links for each of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Able Edition<\/li>\n<li>Dale Glass Edition<\/li>\n<li>Greenlife Emerald  Viewer<\/li>\n<li>Henri Beauchamp  Edition<\/li>\n<li>Imprudence<\/li>\n<li>Marine Edition<\/li>\n<li>Meerkat<\/li>\n<li>METAbolt<\/li>\n<li>MonoVida Studio<\/li>\n<li>Nicholaz Edition<\/li>\n<li>omvviewer<\/li>\n<li>omvviewer-light<\/li>\n<li>Rainbow Viewer \/  Cool Viewer<\/li>\n<li>RealXtend Edition<\/li>\n<li>SLiteChat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The four that I&#8217;ve tried so far (Greenlife, Imprudence, Kirsten&#8217;s, and Meerkat) aren&#8217;t radical departures from the standard Second Life viewer. The casual user probably wouldn&#8217;t notice any difference at all. What the alternate viewers try to do is to add or improve functionality that many people feel is missing from or not  implemented satisfactorily in the standard viewer. They are  made possible by the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/lindenlab.com\/\">Linden Lab<\/a> has made the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Source_code\">source code<\/a> for the viewer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_source\">open source<\/a>, allowing anyone with the requisite programming skills to  to create their own versione, subject to <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlifegrid.net\/technology-programs\/virtual-world-open-source\">licensing restrictions<\/a>,.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re dissatisfied with the Second Life viewer, I suggest looking into some of these. You might find one that meets your needs. You can install any or all of them on your computer without interfering with your standard Second Life viewer. You can find a list of alternate viewers and their features at the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.secondlife.com\/wiki\/Alternate_viewers\">Second Life wik<\/a>i.<\/p>\n<p> Over coming weeks I&#8217;ll be trying some of these viewers and will report back from time to time about them. If you try any &#8211; or if you already have &#8211; please let me know what your experience is, what you like, what you disliked. You can either write it as a comment on this blog, or you can send me email at<a href=\"mailto:examiner@avatarplanet.com\"> examiner@avatarplanet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ntry {\nvar pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-7670839-1\");\npageTracker._trackPageview();\n} catch(err) {}<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know that there are other ways of viewing Second Life than the standard Second Life viewer? There are in fact at least fifteen Second Life viewers other than those created by Second Life. The picture on the right is the logo of one of them, the Meerkat Viewer. The Second Life Wiki lists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/fifteen-alternate-second-life-viewers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fifteen alternate Second Life viewers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-second-life-viewers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}