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Second Life Communication via iPhone

NMC Virtual Worlds : Aug 6, 2008 01:37pm

It’s not exactly as the headlines bill “Second Life on your iPhone”, but the AjaxLife client for Second Life- which allows chat, IM to and from your iDevice does now work, see the announcement:

AjaxLife is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch! It’s currently about where AjaxLife itself was just over a year or so ago - you can chat to people, IM those on your friend list (online or offline this time ’round), and receive IMs from arbitrary people. Thus far, there is no movement, no inventory, no money transfers, etc.

Lacking an iPhone, I was able to connect successfully on my iPod Touch over my home wireless network, which provides a basic menu to do local chat, IM, or access my contacts:

The contacts list does show who is in world:

I sent a few IMs to contacts but did not get any response, so I decided to do a local test, and logged in as my alt avatar, Zoraster Gaffer. I did manage to get back and forth IMs from the iPod (CDB Barkley) to Zoraster, and when I teleported Zoraster to CDB’s home, I could see him as he normally would look in Second Life:

And the back and forth communication was near real time. The people I was IM-ing did report getting the IMs I had sent from my iPod, but I did not receive their replies.

This is pretty neat in terms of spreading the connectivity to/from virtual worlds and a super impressive accomplishment again for Katharine Berry, but do not get carried away when someone labels this “Second Life on an iPod”.

Not yet!

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