Third party viewers that support mesh http://bit.ly/HVHXSI Third party viewers that support mesh
This is update 2 on viewers that now support mesh for Second Life.
Mesh has already changed the look of Second Life drastically and the rate seems to be speeding up. I have been impressed with mesh builds so far on the grid and it’s definitely worth creating mesh objects.
aurora-sim / AstraViewer https://github.com/aurora-sim/AstraViewer aurora-sim / AstraViewer
An experimental Snowglobe 1.5 based Second Life Viewer focusing on performance, but also including all the usual conveniences.
Second Life Viewer 2 Quick Start Guide http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_2_Quick_Start_Guide Second Life Viewer 2 Quick Start Guide
This guide will help you get started fast, by explaining how to complete some of the most common tasks you'll need to get the most out of your Second Life experience.
Sec. Life Viewer Skins / Starlight http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_Skins/Starlight Sec. Life Viewer Skins / Starlight
This skin is designed to give more choice, and hopefully improve the usability and promote usage of Second Life Viewer 2. It consists of a number of previously published viewer tweaks - produced by various residents
Second Life Viewer 2 Quick Start Guide (pdf) http://bit.ly/cF6zn6 Second Life Viewer 2 Quick Start Guide (pdf)
Second Life Policy on Third-Party Viewers http://secondlife.com/corporate/tpv.php Second Life Policy on Third-Party Viewers (May 2010)
This Policy governs access to Second Life and our technical platform that supports Second Life by any Third-Party Viewer, by which we mean any third-party software client, regardless of its source code, that logs into our servers. This includes software for viewing Second Life, any chat clients, utilities, bots, and proxies as well as applications that may not be listed in our Viewer Directory.
METAbolt http://www.metabolt.net/ METAbolt
METAbolt is a text client with rich features to enable users to perform most important functions in SL.
The aim of METAbolt is to provide a thin client which people can use.
METAbolt works in SL as well as all other grids based on OpenSIM. However, METAbolt is primarily developed for SL. LL Review
Second Life Viewers and the Third-Party Viewer Directory http://viewerdirectory.secondlife.com/ Official Linden Labs Second Life Viewers and the Third-Party Viewer Directory
Page started March 2010
Second Life Viewer 2 Help http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewer_2_Help Second Life Viewer 2 Help "This page is an list of all Viewer 2 help resources and is curated by the Documentation Team. Have a suggestion? Let Torley know."
Pocket Metaverse : Sec Life Viewer iPhone App http://www.pocketmetaverse.com/ Pocket Metaverse : Sec Life Viewer iPhone App
Pocket Metaverse is the part-time effort of a small band of developers in the San Francisco Bay Area that is based on exploring how virtual worlds can be connected to the mobile world.
Our main product is Touch Life, which is designed to enable accessing much of Second Life's functionality from the iPhone, and eventually, other mobile devices such as those running Android.
FlexLife http://flexlife.nexisonline.net/ FlexLife a Second Life based client that allows you to come online without linden lab checking your hardware id.
Works for banned PC's.
LookingGlass Virtual World Viewer http://lookingglassviewer.org/wiki/Main_Page LookingGlass Virtual World Viewer
The LookingGlass Virtual World Viewer provides a modular framework for a client viewer of virtual world systems.
LookingGlass is written in C# and licensed with a BSD license. The 'current' version has a communication module that talks Linden Lab Legacy Protocol ("LLLP") which is compatible with Second Life(r) and OpenSimulator.
A rendering module exists which uses the Ogre3D graphics engine. Of course, other communication and rendering modules will be added in the future.
SLim : the Second Life chat client http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:About_the_SLim_Client SLim is the name of the Second Life chat client
"SLim" is the Second Life® lightweight chat client. Cleverly named for its design, SLim offers a compact option for communication with your Second Life friends.
The SLim client:
Enables Residents like you to interact with their Second Life friends without having to go inworld with the Second Life Viewer.
Only offers one-to-one text and voice chat.
It enables Second Life Residents to text or voice chat with SL Friends without having the SL viewer open.
Residents using the SL viewer can use the usual viewer communication controls to text or voice chat with SLim users, and SLim users can communicate with SL viewer users.
You need to download the Second Life SLim Viewer that is specially designed to work with SLim. Other Second Life viewers will not work with SLim.
Running Multiple Viewers ttp://tinyurl.com/6gd3zq Running Multiple Viewers
This lets you run as many instances of Second Life as your computer can handle.
You can only have one login at a time to an account. So you'll need a second account for the second SL client you have open. Etc. Max is 5 per household.
Restrained Life Viewer http://www.erestraint.com/realrestraint/ Restrained Life Viewer
The Restrained Life Viewer, for Second Life, will make your restraints un-detachable and other restrictive measures.
Sparkle IM ... iPhone and iPod Touch App http://sparkle.genkii.com/ Sparkle IM ... iPhone and iPod Touch App
We're based in Tokyo, a city of the future, where technology shapes our everyday lives. And we like it like that.
realXtend viewer http://www.realxtend.org/ The realXtend viewer is an open source browser (GPL license) that you can use to experience rich multiuser virtual worlds.
The realXtend server is an open source server (BSD license) with which you can make your own virtual worlds available to a larger audience. The server has a sample virtual world. You can utilise it as it is or modify it to suit your needs. realXtend also offers free, high-quality content for your own worlds.
Open metaverse viewer http://omvviewer.byteme.org.uk/ Open metaverse viewer
Open metaverse viewer is a project aimed to package the Second Life(tm) viewer for Linux distributions
Currently we have active packaging projects for Debian and Ubuntu but we are seeking help from others to expand this to other Linux distributions following the fine example of co-operation shown by the Debian Games team in getting multiple distros to work together on common packages
OMVViewer-light http://omvviewer-light.byteme.org.uk/ OMVViewer-light
OMVViewer-light is a text only client for 3D metaverses such as Linden Lab's SecondLife (tm), but is also compatable with other virtual world based systems using the LL protocol, based on servers such as OpenSim or Simian. It provides a mainly text only interface to the 3D virtual world. Its not completly text as you can see some textures and a map etc. But its a light weight interface compared to a full 3D rendering system.
So Why?, well its useful to be able to just chat from work, or answer Business or Friend IM's. Keep an eye on whats happening in your sim, or just interact with friends from a computer that is not up to the full 3D experience.
Snowglobe http://sfreq.org/ Snowglobe
This is our flagship, and contains the best features (in our opinion) from a bunch of other viewers, and some additions we created ourselves.
We aim to keep it up to date with Linden Lab's ongoing heavy development. Or more precisely, we build our features on top of the most recent (and reasonably stable) versions of LL's Snowglobe. So you get the best and most recent official modifications together with features you like in other viewers. Sounds about perfect, doesn't it/
Oh, also we are trying to improve usability of the viewer at the same time.
The Imprudence Blog http://imprudenceviewer.org/ The Imprudence Blog
The primary goal of Imprudence is simple: to greatly improve the usability of the Viewer.
Imprudence is an open-source, volunteer effort
Radegast http://code.google.com/p/radegast/ Radegast ... Lightweight client for connecting to Second Life and OpenSim based virtual worlds
Radegast is written using libopenmetaverse and with it you can connect to Second Life and other grids. Its useful for people who do not have machined powerful enough to run OpenGL clients, like standard Second Life viewer.
Boy Lane : Blog : Cool Viewers for Virtual Worlds http://my.opera.com/boylane/blog/ Boy Lane : Blog : Cool Viewers for Virtual Worlds
Hippo OpenSim Viewer http://mjm-labs.com/viewer/ Hippo OpenSim Viewer
The Hippo OpenSim Viewer is a modified Second Life viewer, targeted at OpenSim users. It allows building up to a height of 10,000 m, scaling prims up to 256x256x256 m and other exciting features.
The Hippo OpenSim Viewer helps users take advantage of OpenSim features and extensions. Based on the source code of the Linden viewer, which is published under GPL, Hippo OpenSim Viewer is compatible not only with the Second Life grid but with all the grids running Open Simulator. The additional features allow exploiting the potential of the Open Simulator world and provide a user-friedly way to connect to the multitude of OpenSim grids.
SL viewer in a Browser ... AjaxLife http://174.129.189.164/ SL viewer in a Browser ... AjaxLife
The Meerkat Viewer Project http://www.meerkatviewer.org/ The Meerkat Viewer Project
Meerkat is a fully open source fork of the Second Life viewer. Bring objects, scripts, and textures that you've created to other grids or work offline in OpenSim
Grid to Grid teleport. On your map screen you'll find a list full of new grids to explore.
Avatar List. Lock on and view any avatar in a sim. No more wasting time trying to find someone 10,000 meters in the sky.
We've replaced Quicktime and other non redistributable libraries with ones we're allowed to give out.
Enhanced build tools. These allow for quick bulk object changes and new, more precise object parameters.
Third-party Viewers listed on the Second Life Wiki http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Alternate_viewers/ Third-party Viewers listed on the Second Life Wiki
Third-party Viewers are those which have been created by developers not working for Linden Lab. These Viewers offer altered or additional functionality compared to the official Second Life Viewer
Third-party Viewers listed on the Second Life Wiki http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Alternate_viewers Third-party Viewers listed on the Second Life Wiki
Third-party Viewers are those which have been created by developers not working for Linden Lab. These Viewers offer altered or additional functionality compared to the official Second Life Viewer.
BleedingEdge viewer. http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/ BleedingEdge viewer.
The BleedingEdge viewer is the one of my viewers which despite the long time makes most sense if you have a performance challenged machine, because it comes without the Windlight rendering.
My SL viewers are vintage versions. They are still operational (in line with latest essential security and protocol changes), but based on 2007/2008 Linden viewers and they are probably only of interest to folks who run SL on underpowered computers or who dislike changes which LL made since mid 2008.
Emerald Viewer http://modularsystems.sl/ Emerald Viewer
Welcome to the Official Greenlife Emerald Viewer User's Guide. This guide will list the features of the viewer and help you get started with Emerald.
PyOGP http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/PyOGP PyOGP
Pyogp is an open source project between Linden Lab and the Architecture Working Group (AWG) to support testing the Open Grid Protocol (OGP).
Written in Python, Pyogp will consist initially of a client library and test functionality to enable testing OGP-enabled virtual worlds such as Second Life and compatible OpenSim implementations. These components will expand as the effort matures.
WindLight (Second Life) http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/WindLight WindLight
WindLight is the code name for Second Life "physically-accurate atmospheric rendering & lighting" project, which graduated from a "First Look" technology preview to a Release Candidate viewer, then eventually was included in the 1.19.1 main SL viewer.