Second Life blogfather Wagner James Au weighs in on Viewer 2.0 He loves it — or at least he loves parts of it — but he says it won’t drive Second Life mainstream adoption. He’s right. Read James’s ...

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Linden Lab on Monday released as open-source software the viewer used to access Second Life and plans to follow suit with the server software that powers the company's virtual realm. The initial move ...

Linden Lab, which develops and operates Second Life introduced a new beta version of its desktop viewer software on Tuesday, the first big upgrade in many years. Will the new software help bring about ...

Outsiders will be able to modify the viewer software; Linden Lab plans to follow suit with the server software, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...