The Birth of a New Web 3.0 Browser?- Get those plugins done NOW

Instead of running Second Life inside a browser, Just rebrand the new Second Life viewer as a Browser (it already has 3D). Stop seeing what the Lab is up to as just HTML or video on a prim or lets clean up the Mainland. I am sure the Lab isn't seeing it that narrowly, nor are their investors. They have a plan and a window of opportunity.

All the Lab needs to do is add, zoom to prim, the common browser interface, back button, and tabs, and the Second Life Viewer is no longer a stand alone single game viewer... drum roll...... it is voila....

The New Web 3.0 Browser


Video & below by AimeeTrescothick - August 24, 2009

This video demonstrates accessing several remote desktops through my VNC client plug-in for Second Life, written using the new LLMedia plug-in API. Shown here running in Linden Lab's plug-in test application, these will in future be accessible on the surface of a Second Life prim in the same way as a parcel media stream.

Watch in fullscreen HD to see what's going on properly :)

The first section of the video demonstrates the potential for desktop sharing, with two independent plug-in instances connected to one Apple Remote Desktop server running on my Macbook Pro, editing an OpenOffice document in real-time. This is equivalent to two (or more) Second Life clients viewing and interacting with the remote desktop on the same prim.

We then move on to view another plug-in instance connected to a different server (Apple Remote Desktop on a Mac Mini G4).

The final section demonstrates entering a URI (equivalent to changing the parcel media stream in SL) to connect to another server (UltraVNC on a Vista laptop) which is itself running a Second Life client (I probably should have turned the shadows off to improve the frame rate, but they're so pretty!) This effectively gives Second Life on a "prim", Third Life anyone? :)

Is SL ready for 1,000,000 concurrent users? Are we? or is this market larger then Second Life?