Second Life Viewer: Ascent 1.4.3.2 Review

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Ascent Viewer
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Update: This article constantly pulls lots of people. I’m not sure why. In February of 2011 the Ascent Viewer’s development was discontinued. I wrote 2 articles about the Ascent Viewer; this review (Sept 11, 2009) and the one about its being discontinued (linked in this paragraph).

The Singularity Viewer is the descendant of the Ascent Viewer. Or in more geeky terms, Singularity is a branch of the Ascent Viewer code. — End update.

Finding a new viewer has become the new quest for many Second Life residents. In general most have made the safe and simple choice and are using the Imprudence Viewer. A number of residents have abandoned Third Party Viewers (TPV). They have started to use the official SL viewers either SLV1 (Second Life Viewer version 1) or SLV2. A few of us are using Second Life Development Viewers (SLDV), which come out daily as part of the Snowstorm team’s work. Others are exploring and testing other viewers. This is about the Ascent Viewer for those exploring TPV’s.

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Second Life Update

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There are lots of things changing in SL. To those not following the Wiki, blogrum and various Lindens’ office-hours meetings; changes may appear to be moving slowly. However, I see a pattern of changes reflecting Phillip’s direction to improve communications between residents and the Lab and improve how they develop software for SL. I find the pace of these changes rather impressive.

One change is Torley’s recent update of the Wiki post on the Second Life Quality Assurance Portal and the changes in the QA process and how to participate. Torley is actually really busy updating the Wiki with all the new changes related to Bug Tracking.

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New Viewer Dolphin Released

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The Second Life Wiki just updated with information about a new viewer named Dolphin Viewer. I guess formerly named Frozenglobe. The site for it has a blog here: Dolphin Viewer Blog

The development team is; Aimee Trescothick, Aleric Inglewood, Boroondas Gupte, Carjay McGinnis, Dale Glass, Gigs Taggart, Henri Beauchamp, Jacek Antonelli, Kitty Barnet, Lance Corrimal (team leader? And real life name), McCabe Maxsted, Michelle2 Zenovka, Mm Alder, Nicholaz Beresford, Robin Cornelius, Zi Ree, and Zwagoth Klaar.

Apparently an application has been made for TPV Listing. I don’t see the viewer in the list yet. But, discussions were on going as LL asked the name be changed and Dolphin was found acceptable.

Update: 2010-09-26 – The Dolphin Viewer is now in the TPV Directory. It was added 2010-09-21.

This viewer is based on the Snowglobe 1.5 code base.

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Snowstorm Updates

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Lots of the work being done by the Snowstorm team is boring, sorry guys. But, it is necessary and it is moving the viewer forward and laying foundations. JIRA and Backlog issues are being resolved. Ideas from various people are being incorporated. Some of the things I think are noteworthy follow;

Plugins and client side scripting are items being dusted off. They were considered earlier in the year and ran into obstacles, which moved them to shelf. The change in development process and the more modular nature of Snowstorm appear to be bringing new life to the features.

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Emerald Viewer Blocked

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The Lindens have posted on the SL blogrum that the Emerald Viewer will be blocked Wednesday 9/8. See their post here: Emerald Viewer to be Blocked From Second Life

Most importantly it appears the Lab may close the accounts of those that attempt to circumvent the block.

Please be aware that attempting to circumvent our blocking to access Second Life with a banned Viewer is a violation of the Policy on Third-Party Viewers and may result in the loss of one’s account.

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