Category Archives: Reviews

Initial Impressions of SL Viewer 2.0

So the next iter­a­tion of Second Life viewer has come along, and it’s look­ing mar­velous! I’m actu­ally really impressed. Here’s my quick run down of Linden Lab’s new mon­ster.
What it has…
Aes­thet­ics
The new cli­ent looks abso­lutely mar­velous. Yup I know that sounds like a fairly unim­port­ant thing to talk about, but actu­ally it isn’t. How pleas­ing a GUI

App Review: Touch Life by Pocket Metaverse

From time to time, I’ve had a genu­ine reason for need­ing access to Second Life on the move. Nor­mally this would involve car­ry­ing my laptop around, or just going without. Sparkle, a Second Life chat cli­ent for the iPhone, offered a bit of the Second Life exper­i­ence, but it was very bare bones — offer­ing

Book Review: ‘I, Avatar’ by Mark Stephen Meadows

I, Avatar’ is a book I took a chance on. I’ll be hon­est, the price and the fact that it was vaguely Second Life related is what sold me — the descrip­tion itself didn’t leave me with a lot of hope — the men­tion of ‘an exam­in­a­tion of avatars through the lenses of soci­ology, psy­cho­logy,