Hippo Opensim

[Bruce Lehmann]

For those of us who have branched out from Second Life and started exploring the Open Sim world, there is good news. Before, you had to create and rename a new shortcut of the SL Viewer, go into the properties, change the "loginuri, put in a url and a port, and you were done. A pretty daunting task for a casual traveler through Virtuality. Now along comes Hippo Opensim Viewer:

This nifty piece of software allows you to merely choose a grid....and go! It will access quite a number of grids including SL itself. All you need is an account for the grid so you can log in.

There is a button at the bottom called "Grid" that brings up a choice menu box.

You then select a grid from the menu (there a quite a few), either set it as default or just hit apply and your done. You then log on using your name & password and it loads up. You can also add new grids. I added ReactionGrid by following the steps provided and it worked fine. You have to register with the grid you want to enter of course. Then you log in and go;


ReactionGrid

Avatar Hangout

The plusses to this are obvious:
1 All your access is in one program.

2. Will make the concept of a portable Avatar, such as MYRL is working on, easy to deploy

3; It just plain works, and works well.

Let's face it. Whether you like the Second Life concept and architecture or not, the Lindens have made a profound impact on Virtual Reality. This idea and others are going to take the concept to a whole new level.

Get the viewer at : http://opensim-viewer.sourceforge.net/