#SECOND LIFE VIEWER PORTABLE SOFTWARE#

Creator’s Comment: “ The primary goal of Black Dragon is to enhance and refine the visuals of Second Life as well as having unique design approaches and features.”.

Clean look, may take some getting used to but perhaps your first port of call if you want to try something less stressful to your older machine. A cross between the official viewer with some features of Firestorm and Black Dragon. It is particularly excellent at handling large and busy events so event organisers and staff may find this one will help keep things running smoothly. Its new photography tools and ease at which it uses your machine’s CPU power at optimum levels makes it worth investigating.

Alchemy has gone from a quiet little known viewer to one that is now making a serious challenge to other popular viewers.

Creators comment: “ An experimental Second Life™ viewer striving to be at the forefront of stability, performance, and technological advancement in the open-source metaverse viewer field.”Īlchemy Discord – the up to date version of this viewer is currently on Discord only.

All the viewers below are officially recognized and approved by Linden Labs, but they do not provide support with any non-official viewer issues, nor can be held responsible for any other mishap or problems you may encounter with them. I strongly suggest you read the feedback on each viewer’s homepage to make an informed choice before running it on your machine. The following guide will help you choose and then try an alternative viewer.

Or you’re someone who loves tinkering under the bonnet with open source. Perhaps you’re exploring photography and are ready to move on to a more advanced stage. Firestorm for instance has a lot of features which make older machines creak at the seams, so perhaps you want something less intense on your graphics card if you’re a more basic user. There’s viewers for older machines, there’s viewers for photographers and Vloggers, and there’s more simple Android/Apple and text only viewers so you can keep in touch with your friends away from home. So how useful are they to the average Resident? Well, as it turns out, very. Beware of third-party viewers that are not in the Viewer Directory: they have either declined to self-certify their compliance with Linden Lab policies or been refused for noncompliance with the policies” Linden Lab provides a Policy on Third-Party Viewers to promote a positive and predictable experience for all Second Life Residents.

#SECOND LIFE VIEWER PORTABLE SOFTWARE#

“You may connect to Second Life using software released by a third-party developer. What surprised me however were the amount of people present who were blissfully unaware that others existed at all.

I happened to be lurking in group chat in-world when the topic turned to alternative viewers for Second Life. For a more in-depth honest analysis, pros and cons head over to the blog of Inara Pey and search for your chosen viewer.

This is a brief, potted guide to alternative viewers. Now with added Discord links where available See SL differently Alternative viewers for older machines, photographers, vloggers and mobile

Second life viewer portable