The Ascent Viewer generates lots of interest. It is, even in 2013, the most searched for viewer on this site.
It is a nice viewer. Basically a series one viewer with lots of TPV features.
Unfortunately it was discontinued in February of 2011.
Second Life News 2019 w03
Servers No Deploys post this week. Simon Linden tells us there will be an RC rollout. My main channel home region did not restart today, Tuesday. The only change Simon mentions is more logging is added to the RC. Viewers The main/default viewer remains version 6.0.1.522263. Last updated 2018 week #50. Second Life Bugsplat Viewer … Read more
Ascent Viewer Discontinued
Charlotte Wirtanen was chatting with someone and explained they have discontinued development of the Ascent Viewer. The reason given was, “…because of Linden Labs’ plans to effectively kill off the ability for 1x viewers to even connect anymore at some unspecified point in the near future.” Whether that is the official verdict or not is hard to … Read more
Most Interesting Second Life Viewer
Most of us are curious about which viewer is popular and most used. We only know how many people are logging on with a particular viewer when Linden Lab decides to tell us, and that isn’t often. Viewer developers can usually tell us how many downloads have been made. Some that use their own web … Read more
Second Life Viewer: Ascent 1.4.3.2 Review
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 … Read more