Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Alpha 3 or version 1.1.0.34268 has been released. Cinder Roxely has made a Mac version. There are changes for the Oculus Rift: Added looking around with the Rift in 3rd person view. Fixed projected light not being rendered correctly. Fixed bad display with only Basic Shaders turned on. Fixed Rift full screen resolution being used for … Read more
There is a new version of the CtrlAltStudio Viewer for Oculus Rift. See the announcement here: Alpha 2 of the CtrlAltStudio Viewer with Oculus Rift Support.
Jo Yardley has been talking with Björn-Christian Bönkost. Björn has a Rift SDK unit that he is using with David Rowe’s CtrlAltStudio Viewer. Björn visited Berlin in Second Life™ and Jo got him to write about it. You can read his account here: First Oculus Rift user visits Berlin.
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I think for anyone thinking of trying out the Rift, Björn ‘s comments say it very well: “I was impressed, amazed and stunned. The city is bigger than anything you can find as a demo for the rift.”
There is now a viewer out with some Oculus Rift support. It is incomplete. But, according to the web site you can stick your head in and look around. See: An Initial Foray into Second Life with the Oculus Rift. There is currently no User Interface. The author of CtrlAltStudi Viewer, David Rowe, says the … Read more
CtrlAltStudio Viewer is about 3D display. This release is a ‘Main Release’ version. This viewer does a render for use with shutter glasses, nVidia 3D Vision. David Rowe the programmer says this is the final release for now. As the Lab and Firestorm update their viewers he will be updating the CtrlAltSudio Viewer. Earlier I … Read more
I am always cautious when testing new viewers. I’ve taken time to ask around to see who knows Strachan Ofarrel or has heard of CtrlAltStudio Viewer. Basically: no one in my circle of friends.
You can find the support blog for the viewer here: CtrlAltStudio. There it shows the developer as David Rowe. I suppose that is a RL name.
The CtrlAltStudio blog has been around since March 2013. The rez-day for Strachan Ofarrel is in 2006.
None of this means the viewer is safe. We have had enough rip-off viewers that one has to be careful. I can’t say it is or is not safe.