KirstenLee is working towards a cross-platform realXtend viewer for OpenLife
The next OpenLife viewer r16.3 is planned to be released during January.
After r16.3, Kirsten is working towards r17, which is going to include majority of the functionality from the realXtend viewer, such as the Avatar 2.0, OGRE rendering and 3D meshes – and it is going to be working on all three major platforms; Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Already the 16.2 release had many features, such as Skype call and asset browser integrated from the realXtend viewer. The first beta versions of r17 are planned at around the end of February 2009.
OpenLife r16.2 and asset browser screenshot
KirstenLee has released a series of SL Viewer based OpenLife r -viewers. realXtend viewers from 0.3 are based on Kirsten’s r15 codebase, which is still compatible with SL. The r16 series is evolving into direction where the viewer is not anymore compatible with Second Life. Kirsten’s viewers are known to be stable and well performing.
While waiting for the r17 to run realXtend on Mac OS X and Linux, it is possible to use Wine to achieve cross-platform support for the official realXtend viewer.
