Second Life Mobile: free to all users & Lab execs discuss the product and goals

On Wednesday, November 13th, Linden Lab quietly made the SL Mobile App available to all users.

The release was somewhat low-key to help minimise the impact of users piling on to the Google and Apple stores and becoming frustrated if they found themselves unable to access the app and download it due to the volume of demand. 

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As a part of the opening of availability of the App, Linden Lab hosted a mini round-table via Zoom at which SL Mobile was discussed, and a little look behind the curtain for the App and its history was given. The following is a summary of some of what was stated / revealed.

SL Mobile Credit: Linden Lab

On Developing the App and Initially Limiting Access

There were many ways SL Mobile could have been developed; in 2019, for example, it was indicated that LL was working on an iOS client focused on communications (see: Second Life: LL confirm iOS client in the making). However, this work was suspended at some point, most likely so a better solution could be sought.

As was noted in the Zoom discussion, there were multiple paths to take, and how best to present the a Mobile app to an audience of Second Life users. One question in particular that had to be addressed was how to present the app to users; its development involved many challenge such that simply opening it up to all users from the first instance was not considered as really feasible, because the feedback could be overwhelming. The release needed to be limited in some way whilst still allowing for the necessary feedback.

So what is the best way to limit it? It is to limit it to people who have really committed financially, as well as in various other ways [to Second Life], and subscribers were they way that we could do this. It’s not like we really wanted to paywall it forever; we just wanted to open it up to smaller audiences, get feedback, get a lot of iteration, and that’s what we’ve been getting from the community, and it’s been fantastic.

Senior Vice President of Product and Engineering, Grumpity Linden

Features and Intent

In terms of which features the Lab decided to focus on in particular for Mobile, the approach taken was to think in terms of “user journeys”: identifying a specific activity users enjoy doing in Second Life – such as socialising, be it at a club or similar venue, or getting out and about with others – and what are the key capabilities involved in that experience: moving, teleporting, communicate, see what’s going on, hear what’s going on (music), look-up profiles, etc. Then building-out those capabilities iteratively, before moving to another journey – such as enhancing avatar customisation options, and start an iterative process that could result in a more rounded means to management inventory on Mobile.

This next journey – subject to official confirmation – might be enhancing avatar customisation through the App. Again, this will not mean a complete set of customisation and inventory management tools being made available at once, but will again be an iterative process, with options and capabilities  added over time to improve the experience.

However, it is important to remember that the aim with Mobile is to augment people’s Second Life, offering an adjunct to the viewer. It is not intended to emulate / reproduce all of the functionality available within the desktop viewer.

The idea is not to create a simpler experience, say akin to Fortnite, on Mobile, where one can “play” Second Life and have the whole experience on the Mobile App.  We don’t actually know, and are inclined to disbelieve, that would ever be possible. What we’re trying to do instead right now somewhat better by using Mobile; maybe it’s getting messages; maybe it’s finding new places … maybe it’s doing something you like to do every day, but do it in Mobile because you’re on a bus or something; but we’re not trying to design the Mobile client to replace Second Life on the desktop. 

– Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab CTO

SL Mobile (Credit: Linden Lab)

Audience

Broadly speaking, SL Mobile has been developed with two primary audience in mind:

  • Existing users – as a means for them to enhance their SL experience by continuing  engage with the platform and their friends during those times of the say when it might not be practical to utilise the desktop viewer in order to do so.
  • “Lapsed” users who have left SL, many of whom have responded to the Lab reaching out to them by saying Second Life doesn’t address their preference for using mobile to access the things they want to do, rather than being reliant on a desktop environment.

One thing the Mobile app is not intended for – at least for the foreseeable future – is the on-boarding of users entirely new to SL; the learning curves involved in becoming comfortable with SL and engaging with it are seen as being too complex / steep at this point in time. Which is not so say the Lab will not be seeking to resume marketing SL to potential new users; far from it, as Brad Oberwager, the Lab’s co-owner and Executive Chairman, noted:

What we are going to do is to start driving people to the desktop and see what happens. That is in play, and that’s good for everybody here. The more people we can all bring in, the better Second Life will be for everybody.

Reception

One of the downsides to the iterative approach taken thus far with SL Mobile has been that it has received extremely poor feedback on both Google Play and the Apple Store. Much of this appears to revolve around perceived incompleteness, possibly as a result of users jumping in and expecting a fully-rounded product and becoming frustrated when they discover functionality is missing.

In this respect, it is again important to remember that SL Mobile is still very much in a beta stage of development, and the iterative process will continue; as such people do need to offer some patience in terms of “missing” features, etc. While the negative feedback has been a source of frustration and disappointment for the Lab, measures are being considered to correct it- be it by resetting the app on the Apple Store and by continuing to offer a better and better product. At the same time, as Lead Developer Adam Frisby noted, the number of poor reviews is hardly insurmountable in the scheme of things .

Trying SL Mobile

As noted, SL Mobile is now available to everyone on both the Apple Store and Google Play, and the links for more information are below. If you are keen to try out out, again, please remember, this is not a final release – as noted above, SL Mobile is still in beta, so please keep this in mind when reviewing the app. That said, if you do encounter issues or bugs, do please file a report with the Lab .

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SL Mobile Now Available to Plus Subscribers

SL Mobile – via Linden Lab

On Wednesday, October 2nd, Linden Lab announced the Second Life Mobile (SL Mobile) beta programme is now extended to Plus subscribers, meaning that it is now open for all three levels of subscription tiers to try out and provide feedback on.

In addition, the announcement highlighted the following updates and additions to the App:

  • Full Access to All Regions – Premium Plus, Premium, and Plus members now have the freedom to explore ALL of Second Life – including regions across all maturity ratings! on both Android and iOS.
  • Experimental: Spatialized Voice Chat using WebRTC. This can be tested on the following regions, pending the deployment of WebRTC support across the grid later in October 2024: WebRTC1, WebRTC2WebRTC3WebRTC4)
  • Improved Controls – Now easier-than-ever to navigate with reduced sensitivity controls.
  • Group Tags, Push Notifications & More.
  • Ability to use L$ to pay objects and avatars.

Full details on the most recent update now available via the release notes.

Alongside of the update, the Lab issued a new video highlighting the updates and providing an overview of what’s likely to be coming soon.

How To Get It

Plus, Premium and Premium Plus Second life subscribers can go to Second Life Mobile and follow the links for Apple iOS or Google Android.

Reviews in This Blog

While I have been trying out the Mobile App since the public beta opened, I will refrain from offering any in-depth reviews until after SL Mobile on Android until it is a more rounded application and is fully available to all.

SL Mobile Available to Premium Plus and Premium in Open Beta

SL Mobile – via Linden Lab

On Tuesday, June 25th, Linden Lab announced the launch of an Open Beta phase for the SL Mobile App for Android and iOS, extending the opportunity for anyone with a Premium Plus or Premium subscription to Second Life to download the app and try it, and report on issues / give feedback.

  • The launch coincided with an announcement at the Product and Engineering Town Hall event at SL21B, and came with news of a series of special community-lead events to be held across the grid to mark the launch as well.
  • The announcement also saw the SL Mobile (beta) website become generally available, and the opening of a SL Mobile FAQ – those wishing to download and try the app on their device(s) should give this a read through.

How To Get It

As a beta release, you will need to use one of the links below on your device to access the SL viewer download:

The log-in screen (splash image changes with each log-in), the connecting screen giving destination, and the in-world view with drop-down menu active on a mobile ‘phone with octa-core processors ( 2×1.6 GHz Cortex-A75 & 6×1.6 GHz Cortex-A55), Mali G57 GPU and 8+8Gb RAM 

Some Points on Using SL Mobile

In General

  • This is beta software and liable to glitches (such a avatar skins rendering fully or partially black under a variety of situations).
  • Log-in is subject to multi-factor authentication, so if you use MFA, have a valid code available from your chosen authenticator when initially logging-in.
  • Once you are logged-in to Second Life on a specific device, future log-ins will be automatic on starting the the App until you log-out / are logged out from your device (e.g. because you try logging-in from a regular viewer whilst connected via SL Mobile).
  • The app also supports “standard” touch-screen capabilities including strafing movements (camera), pinch-zoom (camera zoom), etc.
  • SL notifications can be displayed as a part of your device’s notifications.
  • In order to comply with Apple requirements, Adult rated regions in Second Life cannot be access by the iOS version of the SL Mobile app.

Initial Tutorial

Avatar movement is via a “joystick” controller (tap bottom left of app window to reveal it), and a brief tutorial is supplied at first-time log-in.

Part of the Joystick tutorial displayed when logging-in to the SL Mobile App for the first time. Captured via a Doogee T10 8+7 Gb (Octa-core 2×1.6 GHz Cortex-A75 & 6×1.6 GHz Cortex-A55 CPU with Mali-G57 MP1 GPU), 1920×1200 25.65 cm diagonal screen

June 2024 Capabilities

  • Core capabilities in addition to world rendering and avatar movement, are accessed via a menu button to the top left of the app window.
  • These include:
    • Avatar: ability to change between complete outfits located in the Outfits folder
    • Chat: both nearby chat and IM (Friends (+Friends )n-line); Nearby; Group) – via overlay.
    • People: view All Friends, Friends On-line, Groups, Nearby, those Recent(ly contacted), those Blocked.
      • Includes options to view avatar profile, chat, IM, offer teleport, add / remove as friend, block, and AR.
    • Places: personal favourites, Destination Guide, Mobile showcase (DG subset).

    The Destination guide as seen in landscape view (Doogee tablet, 25.65 cm diagonal screen) and in portrait mode (16.5 cm screen on a mobile ‘phone)
  • There are also option to access the App’s settings, including:
    • General settings (draw distance (range 20m to 250m, with 20m or 100m and above not recommended); LOD (high, medium, low), Audio Steaming toggle switch, etc.).
    • Notifications settings.
    • Developer tools.
    • Feedback & bug reporting.
  • Also supported are:
    • Limited Context Menu access for avatars (e.g. to profile, to open chat, et.c) and in-world objects (e.g. to sit) – long touch over the avatar / object.
    • Receipt of Group notifications.
    • Receipt of app-specific notifications (blue dot).

What Isn’t There – Yet

  • At the time of writing the app does not support:
    • Building or object editing.
    • Inventory access and management (but see note on Outfit changing, above).
    • Use of voice.
    • Displaying on-screen HUD attachments or interactive dialogues drive by llDialog.
    • L$ transactions (or balance display) or Marketplace access.

Closing Comments

While I have been trying out the Mobile App since the public beta opened, this piece is not intended as a review, so I prefer not to give personal feedback here. I will, however, provided a more in-depth look at running the app on both a mobile phone and on a 10-in tablet device both on Android 13 in due course, as I gain more familiarity with using it.

Second Life Mobile App enters “private” Alpha testing for Premium Plus users

SL Mobile, December 2023 – screen cap via Linden Lab

Update, December 13th: – the Lab now has an official blog post on the Alpha.

Linden Lab have announced – by way of a You Tube video (at the time of writing, I’ve not seen any official blog or forum post commentary  to accompany it) – the launch of a Second Life Mobile “Private Alpha” allowing Premium Plus subscribers to sign-up for the opportunity to take the app for a test drive and provide feedback to help with development.

Narrated by – I believe – user Boston Blaisdale, the short video (just over a minute in length) introduces the features and capabilities those accepted into the alpha will be able to try. These include:

  • See your avatar & edit appearance / change outfits.
  • Explore the world via the Destination Guide, mobile showcase, teleport, deep links, TP offers.
  • Interact with the world through a limited set of movements (walk, run, fly, sit, stand) and object interactions (touch, sit) – or park your avatar and explore via flycam.
  • Socialise and stay connected (nearby chat, group chat, IM, group notices, find contacts, inspect profiles).
  • Create and log in with a new account.

The app is currently available on the following platforms:

  •  iOS (minimum: iPhone X running iOS 16.6.1).
  • Android: mid-to-high-end Android device (comparable to Google Pixel 6 or higher) running Android OS 13 or higher.

Those participating on iOS will also require the TestFlight app for testing and feedback, whilst Android users will need to provide feedback through Google Play.

Premium Plus subscribers can find out more by following this Support Page link and (I believe) submitting a support ticket. There is also a link on this page to a FAQ  on the Mobile app. It is not clear if this testing is subject to any form of NDA.

SL Mobile, December 2023 – screen cap via Linden Lab

Commenting on more general availability for the app, Linden Lab state:

It’s still early days for our mobile app. Our mobile team has been hard at work building a mobile-centred design and foundational features so that we can all enjoy Second Life anywhere we want. We’re ready to share what we’ve built so far with our most dedicated residents and we ask for your help as we continue to develop this project through this early Alpha stage, but we do not have a date for the next phase of testing or full release at this time.

Using Premium Plus members for initial feedback is an interesting choice. On the one hand, it would appear to greatly limit the potential resource pool of people willing to work on the app and give objective feedback; on the other it does allow Linden Lab to manage the size of the pool of likely applications at this point in time. Whilst some might feel snubbed at the restrictive nature of this initial Alpha, it is probably worthwhile noting that the SL Mobile app has already had input from users and will continue to do so; so will hopefully include more broad-based Alpha and Beta testing using an expanded pool of users in 2024, as LL continue to develop the app.

In the meantime, here’s the video.

Second Life Mobile: Video update from the Lab, with summary

SL Mobile demonstration by Grumpity Linden – a screen capture from the June 2023 development video from Linden Lab
On Tuesday, June 27th, Linden Lab released a new video highlighting the development work for Second Life Mobile App. This video is embedded below, with what follows intended to form a short summary of comments made on the work during the SL20B Lab Gab session with Grumpity and Mojo Linden (and for which I’ll have a text summary available soon.

Key Points

  • Development work is continuing, with an emphasis on performance and rendering (for example: the capabilities of the hardware running SL Mobile is assessed to see if it can render with shadows enabled).
  • The user interface has been revised and improved.
  • The overall aim remains to provide an immersive an experience as possible, and provide users with an many of the capabilities found within the viewer as makes sense to include in a mobile device.
  • As it is, SL Mobile provides:
    • Chats and IM capabilities.
    • Friends on-line information.
    • Destinations / Places.
    • Teleport capabilities.
    • Groups and Group chat functionality.
    • High-quality rendering.
    • Avatar navigation via an on-screen joystick (only visible when in use).
  • Work will continue in adding features and capabilities and refining SL Mobile over the next two quarters.
  • The current time frame for releases is:
    • Limited “private” alpha testing towards the end of 2023.
    • Broader user beta testing in 2024.
  • Further news and updates will be made available as and when there are updates to share.
Rendering in the SL Mobile app / viewer – screencap via the June 2023 development video from Linden Lab

The Video

The new video – embedded below – provides insight into the work carried out since the last update / video released at SL19B, and highlights some of the purposes LL sees SL Mobile being put to. Note that elements such as the UI as seen in the video are subject to possible change as the product develops.

Lab Gab summary: Grumpity, Mojo & Patch – SL Mobile, land, bots & more

via Linden Lab

On Friday, March 10th, 2023, Linden Lab streamed a special session of Lab Gab featuring the Office of Second Life: Grumpity Linden, Mojo Linden and Patch Linden.

The session was built around announcements and updates relating to various initiatives and product developments. Note that the following is not a direct transcript of the entire session, but is intended to record the key points discussed.

For ease of reference, timestamps are provided to the relative points within the video where specific topics are discussed, allowing readers who prefer to listen to the comment directly to be able to do so.

Table of Contents

A Little Background

Grumpity Linden: heads up Second Life Product team, where she has overseen a shift to growth, a stronger, more balanced economy, movement towards better community cohesion, and an overall forward-looking approach. She originally started at LL whilst working for The Product Engine, and was involved in the development of Viewer 2 (as designed by 80/20 Studio), prior to joining LL full-time in 2014. As the Vice President of Product, she is responsible for coordinating the various teams involved in bringing features and updates to Second Life, liaising with legal, financial and compliance to ensure features and capabilities meet any specific requirements in those areas, and so on; work which can involve looking at specifics within various elements of the overall SL product, such as UI design and layout, etc.

Mojo Linden: joined the Lab in 2021 at the Vice President of Engineering, filling the shoes worn for so long by Oz Linden. A 20-year veteran of the gaming industry, he has been responsible for launching numerous games across multiple genres and platforms, and has a strong understanding of platforms, architectures, and product development and technical capabilities. In his role at the Lab, he has shown enormous openness and candour in seeking to increase the platform’s functionality and performance, and in pushing to expand SL’s capabilities.

Patch Linden: originally a Second Life resident and business owner who joined the platform in 2004, and became a Linden in September 2007. He worked across a number of teams within the company – notably within the support and product spheres, and is responsible for developing the Land Operations team, and more recently setting-up the company’s support office in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2019, he has been Vice President, Product Operations.

Second Life Mobile

[Video 0:00-4:42 and 6:36-7:57]

Grumpity Linden holds up a mobile ‘phone showing Second Life running on it using the upcoming SL Mobile capability

  • Built upon Unity.
  • Core development of this product began in October 2022, with the aim of gaining as high a fidelity of experience on mobile as is possible.
  • Works on all platforms – Android, iOS, tablets, ‘phones.
  • The product is still very much in development, with the focus having been on graphics fidelity, including full avatar rendering.
  • There is some way to go before the product is ready for release – work at the moment is on smoothing out some of the rendering edge cases before moving on to adding further functionality.
  • Initial release is planned for late 2023 with limited functionality, which will then be iterated upon to add more and more functionality and capabilities.

Land Pricing and Fees

[Video: 8:59-12:06]

  • See: Infrastructure Investment Update: Buy/Sell Fee Change and Land Pricing Effective Mar 6, 2023 – official blog post.
  • Grumpity re-iterated the drive (initiated by the late Ebbe Altberg, not long after he joined LL as CEO in 2014) to lower the cost of virtual land in SL – as had long been called for by SL residents – whilst also offsetting the lower land tiers through increases in fees elsewhere within the platform.
  • The fee increases  – as noted in the official blog post – also relate to increased costs LL has faced, thanks to the general economic situation.
  • The fact that the option for paying for land using L$ (restricted to Premium Plus subscribers and limited to one region only at the time of writing) is higher than the USD fee for the same is explained as being a combination of the facts that the L$ to USD exchange rate, the fact that LL have to do the lifting of conversion from L$ to LSD through the LindeX, and as such must participate in the SL economy.
  • It was also noted that paying in L$ means subscribers avoid being charged VAT / state sales tax / similar.

Bots and Policies

[Video: 12:09-13:05]

  • Most likely raised in relation to ongoing concerns about the amount of data being gathered by the BonnieBot system (which has done much to raise the visibility of bots (aka Scripted Agents) in general), and which has also seen some heavy-handed forum moderation on the part of LL. So details can be found threads  – see Has anyone else noticed the B[xxxx] accounts? Sorry. This is not OK. B bots profile scraping and Questions for the Lindens.
  • Whilst the BonnieBot website has take steps away from publishing information which might be regarded as being within Second Life under the expectation it is private (a point that Linden Lab seemingly missed in their initial responses to forum thread postings), the Lab has recognised the need for clearer / better policies and has promised to provide them.
  • These new policies have gone through the necessary compliance and legal reviews within Linden Lab, and will hopefully be published in week #11 (commencing Monday, March 13th, 2023).
  • In addition, a new set of estate / region controls are being developed to enable estate / region holders to better control the use of Scripted Agents within their land. These will be deployed “soon” – hopefully within weeks of this session being aired.

PBR – Physically Based Rendering and Graphics

[Video: 13:10-18:00]

  • (Note: this topic is also covered within my Content Creation User Group meeting summaries.)
  • In brief: PBR essentially models the flow of light within computer graphics in a manner which mimics light reflections on surfaces in the physical world.
  • It represents a significant technical step forward in graphical rendering for SL (in the order of 10 years).
  • The core of this work is to support a new approach to material maps / surfaces either directly on products development for SL by content creators or which can be used on suitable objects within Second Life, which give they sense of physical world lighting and reflection.
  • In particular, it draws on the Khronos glTF 2.0 specification, and allows creators to more readily use a range of tools supporting that standard (including Blender) and also contents libraries, etc., in support of their work.

An Intel-developed scene imported by Nagachief Darkstone and WindowsCE to demonstrate reflection probes (note the reflections on the knight’s armour – these are not generated by attached environment lights but by a reflection probe within the building structure. Image courtesy of Rye Cogtail

  • Also included in the PBR work is reflection probes – which in simple terms enable light sources to generate reflections of an in-world scene on suitable surfaces (i.e. those using the materials system).
  • None of this work does not necessarily mean users need higher specification computers in order to view it; however, reflection probes can impact system performance, so the viewer will include an option to enable / disable these if they prove to be a performance hit for people.
  • Demos of the PBR work, including an imported Sponza scene, can be found on the following regions on Aditi (the Beta grid):  Materials1; Materials Adult and Rumpus Room 1 through 4.
  • The PBR viewer itself – required to see the content on Aditi, is (at the time of writing) still in the Project Viewer stage (so not ready for use as a primary viewer!) and is available through the Alternate Viewers page.
  • The next stage of the project is to provide support on Agni (the main grid) and promote the viewer to Release Candidate status, both for more widespread testing, but there is no set time frame for this to happen.
  • This work does not mean LL are investing in a new graphics engine – this work, and the recent performance improvements work has been on updating and enhancing the existing graphics engine to better support users and what might be regarded as recognised graphics standards.

Mirrors in SL

[Video: 16:23-17:26]

  • The PBR work takes SL some way towards provisioning real-time planar (that is, flat) mirrors.
  • Once the initial PBR work has been deployed, LL plans to start work on offering planar mirrors in some capacity.
  • Further details on this can be found in my 2023 week 7: SL CCUG and TPVD meeting summaries: Mirrors! article.

Graphics API

[Video: 17:27-18:00]

  • While the graphics rendering engine is not being changed, per the above notes, the graphics API will be changing.
  • As OpenGL is going increasingly old (and has been deprecated by Apple), plans are in hand to move the Graphics API to Vulkan (and MoltenVK for Mac).
  • This switch will further enhance SL’s graphics capabilities, and work on the switch-over should commence later in 2023.

Viewer Updates

[Video: 18:00-19:50]

Inventory Updates

  • (Note: Updates on the progress of the Inventory work can generally be found in my TPV Developer meeting summaries.)
  • Work is in progress to provide updates to Inventory management, some of which are designed to help with avatar customisation.
  • The first part of this is to provide an “Inventory thumbnails” capability – offering a thumbnail image of items in Inventory.
  • Alongside of this will be a single folder Inventory view.
  • These are not seen as major gamer changers, but rather quality of life improvements for new and existing users.

Emojis

  • LL is still working on integration the Catznip Emoji code contribution to all emojis in chat and IMs.
  • A project viewer for this should be available in “weeks”.

Linux Support

[Video: 20:48-21:30]

  • The current stop-gap for Linux is running the Windows viewer through Wine or Proton.
  • The need to provide direct Linux support is recognised, but updating the tools to make this possible is not on the roadmap for 2023.

SL and VR

[Video 19:56-20:47]

  • VR still requires a consistent 60 fps left eye / right eye), and for many; the feeling at LL is that  SL is not there yet even with all the recent performance improvements.
  • Various initiatives – adoption of Vulkan, the Puppetry Project – should help improve things further,  and LL might reconsider VR headset support in 2024.

Marketplace Updates

[Video: 21:33-24:52]

  • Marketplace Search was updated with significant changes to ElasticSearch (the underpinning Second Life and Marketplace Search) – see: We’re Improving Marketplace Search
  • This was a large update (lifting the search engine from version 2.3 to 8.4, and did involve some issues on deployment, which are being addressed – see: Updates to Marketplace Search.
  • Further fixes and improvements to the update will be deployed in due course, the first of which will be Boolean searches.
  • A fix for Featured Lists not updating correctly is also due to be deployed “soon”.

New User Experience (NUX) Mesh Avatar

[Video: 25:49-27:46]

A preview version of the new, single mesh (head-to-toe) avatar, which will use by mesh clothing and Bakes on Mesh, and be open for creators to design clothing and accessories

  • That said, the project has taken longer to develop than had been anticipated.
  • There will be a dev kit for creators wishing to support the NUX Avatars. This will be launched ahead of the release of the new avatars.
  • The entire system is intended to be “PBR ready” in that PBR materials may not be included in the clothing and accessories released by the Lab, but the items will be capable of supporting the use of PBR materials on them.

Linden Homes Update

[Video: 27:30-28:09]

  • A full update will be coming soon.
  • The first range of Premium Plus Linden Homes is nearing completion.
  • Updates and expansions to the current Premium Linden Homes – like the Victorian – are being prepared.

Second Life User Group Meetings

[Video: 24:54-25:47]

Closing Comments

[Video 28:10-End]

Everyone is pretty much having fun with the SL Mobile project, and hopes were expressed that a “blooper” reel could be made available. It was also indicated that news on the theme for the 20th Second Life Anniversary event (SL20B) will be made available in due course.