Cool VL Viewer

This page contains a list of articles I’ve written on the Cool VL Viewer. I am certain it deserves more than I have written. However… I am a bit fickle when it comes to viewers. That’s my flaw not the viewer’s.

The viewer is built by Henri Beauchamp. He is well known in the viewer development community. I credit him with changing my mind on several topics on viewers. Not the least of which is the time it takes to maintain a viewer with the version 1 user interface. It seems I’ve been wrong on that subject.

Henri has made many contributions to the SL community. If you have privacy issues with viewers, I think Cool VL Viewer is a good choice. Henri’s reputation is established.

The viewer is a good all purpose viewer. It is also a good viewer for those visiting multiple grids. I use it more and more on OSGrid. It has RLV features. It has good building tools.

The viewer is based on new Linden Lab code and has been customized to keep the version 1.x user interface.

Second Life® New Tech Summary – February 2026

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Reporting Period: February 1–28, 2026 I only quickly read through what the AI generated. I’ll add some info and context here and there from what I’ve seen. I think the AI did a pretty good job this time. Official SL Platform Updates

Second Life™ Technology & Community Report – November 2025

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Another month… almost the end of 2025. We got a new Firestorm Viewer release this month. I’ve been too busy with RL work to have played much with it. Nor have been flying. So, I am not sure if there is a difference in region crossings… I hope. Official SL Platform Updates

Second Life Technology Updates: September 2025 – Revised

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A reader, rhet0rica, noted that much of the previous September report was fake. Seems fake news is everywhere. But rhet0rica caught it. I went looking to see what happened. An interesting conversation followed with Grok about why it gave me a load of BS. I may write about that later. Below is an actual comprehensive … Read more

Second Life™ Technology Update Summary: September 2025

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This month’s summary covers “Second Life™ (SL)” technology updates, new features, and releases from September 1, 2025, to September 30, 2025, focusing on official platform changes, viewer updates (official and third-party), and grid/performance improvements. Information is synthesized from official Second Life sources, third-party blogs, and relevant X posts, prioritizing factual details on announcements, rollouts, bug … Read more

Summary of Tech and New Second Life Features Announced or Released in August 2025

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This summary organizes key technological updates, new features in Second Life™ (SL), and enhancements to SL and third-party viewers based on announcements and releases during August 2025. There is some stuff for the every day not so technical user. Second Life Core Platform Updates Second Life Viewer Release: 2025.06 (Version 7.2.1.17108480561) – Released August 28, … Read more

Second Life News Week #36

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General News SL Travel Ever wonder how the SL travel and places blogs find those awesome places? It seems the Blogger & Vlogger Network has a list of them. (here) They also have a form one can fill out to add to the list. So, they find these places when people stumble-on or otherwise find … Read more

Second Life News Week #32

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General News The Third-Party Dev’s meeting was a couple of weeks ago. We learned the BoM and Render viewers are very close to release. The EEP viewer was/is not quite ready. So, file your JIRA’s on BoM. The Render viewer would have released except for it being Linden Summit Week. But… it got an update … Read more

Second Life News Week #25

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Other News Today, Tuesday, was the Server-Scripting UG meeting with the quarterly music thing with Tukso this quarter. TP/Crossing Disconnects – Lindens think they have most of the problem handled. They aren’t saying much as they don’t want to influence the bug reporting. I think additional fixes are in Blue Steel, but I don’t have … Read more