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Second Life Gets New Open Source Viewer

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Second Life creators Linden Lab have launched a new Second Life-compatible viewer, which the company developed with the open source community. The company's goal was to create a "widely-used, openly developed version of the Second Life client."

Snowglobe will contain new Second Life features before they become available in the official release. That said, not all features will make it there.

The main feature that Linden Lab is highlighting is a new map. "Zooming out is fast and seamless," Torley on
Linden warns that the viewer may be less stable than the official Second Life viewer because it is developed on a more rapid release schedule, and in a less formal manner.

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