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Second Life News 2014-49 #4

2013/12/09 by Nalates Urriah

From the Third Party Viewer meeting we learn that the viewer install code has been changed to make use of RC and Project installs easier for the Lab and TPV Dev’s. Earlier I mentioned Name RC Viewer as having the program code changes that allow viewers to be more easily named. Being able to better control channel names cleans up some install problems as well as data tracking.

I am taking what I hear Oz Linden saying about not wanting to get into the details of this change to mean it is complex with Linden preferences driving some of the changes. As long as things work better, none of the detail matters to me.

The Maintenance RC Viewer had a really bad crash rate. It has been withdrawn and users pushed to other viewer versions. If you installed it and disabled automatic updates, you need to replace it.

Breaking Oculus news

2014/02/122013/12/05 by Nalates Urriah

VoidPointer Linden is telling us Oculus Rift support is now feature complete. We should see it release Linden ‘soon’. Apparently he is one of the ones working on Oculus and the Viewer. If you are not using Oculus then there is no apparent change to the viewer. When asked Void answered things look ‘really’ cool. … Read more

Second Life News 2013-49 #2

2013/12/04 by Nalates Urriah

Tuesday the viewers on the RC Viewers’ page updated. We have two new RC viewers added. One is a Maintenance Viewer 3.6.12.284430. The other is the Name Fix Viewer 3.6.12.284323. The Maintenance Viewer has 29 fixes. You can read about them in the release notes. One of the fixes solves problems with how names render … Read more

Second Life News 2013-49

2013/12/02 by Nalates Urriah

There will be a roll out Tuesday morning. The package running on Blue Steel and Le Tigre will get promoted to the main change. This is the one that includes the vehicle region crossing fix. RC Update Wednesday there will a single package rolling out to all three RC channels. This package contains a fix … Read more

CtrlAltStudio Viewer Alpha 5

2013/11/19 by Nalates Urriah

Another update to the CtrlAltStudio Viewer is out. See: Alpha 5: Configurable Walk Speed and Kinect Control. This is the viewer that offers normal, stereoscopic 3D, and Oculus Rift viewer modes. Now it offers an interface for Kinect. Also added is a walking speed adjustment. All of these are neat additions to the basic Firestorm … Read more

Firestorm to Start Blocking Viewers

2013/11/18 by Nalates Urriah

Jessica Lyon, the project manager for the Firestorm Viewer, posted that they will begin blocking older versions of their viewers. Jessica is anticipating the drama this will bring on. By her writing you can tell she is expecting a chorus for complaints one might hear from a 10-year old trying to manipulate their parents. I suspect she is right.

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Jessica points out they have little choice. It is either the Firestorm team blocking or the Lab will take over blocking. I’m not sure that is completely accurate. But, I can see how some will see things that way. In general the Lab does not block viewers. But, if you use the newer viewers you really don’t have a choice about updating your viewer. It automatically updates by default. But, that can be turned off.

There are mandatory updates that the Lab requires from time to time. I expect as some of the current changes being made allow better overall SL performance, which are viewer dependent, more updates are going to be mandatory. So, whether there is a misconception about what is and is not going to be blocked and by who, you are going to be updating your viewer or find yourself unable to login. Otherwise you will be degrading other people’s performance.