Pleiades Present Meerkat at SLCC 2009

August 16, 2009
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by pleiadesedu

Big thanks to everyone who attended our session at SLCC 2009, demonstrating the latest build of Meerkat, the OMF’s Free Open Source viewer for Second Life and Second-Life-like worlds such as Open Sim.

Meerkat is a project of the Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF), and Pleiades has been actively contributing for some time. We see the ability to customize a viewer for educational users and content builders as the path forwards for wider adoption in virtual worlds. To that end, we showed off a few of the new features in Meerkat including:

  • The Avatar Radar
  • Tweaked usability and better defaults
  • Higher precisions and tweaked buildings tools
  • The ability to build content offline and import it to Second Life and other Virtual Worlds
  • The Grid manager and grid-to-grid teleporting, allowing you to switch between Virtual Worlds without quitting the client.

Pleiades’ involvement with the OMF is part of our wider vision for a metaverse of loosely coupled virtual worlds. Our long term goal is to get Meerkat compatible with as many grids as we can. We want Meerkat to be the link between SL-like virtual worlds, similarly to how a web browser allows you to switch from Facebook to MySpace without any trouble.

Please, check out the lastest build of the viewer on the project’s website. It is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. And if you are interested in getting involved with the project, please get in touch.

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