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Announcing Viewer 2.1 Alpha and Voice Morphing

Kila Shan

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Announcing Viewer 2.1 Alpha and Voice Morphing

Posted by Howard Linden on Jun 10, 2010 2:31:08 PM




Today we're pleased to announce the alpha release of Viewer 2.1, the next version of our new Second Life Viewer. (Look for the "test viewer" on the download page.) While most of our work on Viewer 2.1 went into improvements to performance, stability, and usability, as a direct result of Residents feedback, we're also excited to reveal two new features including single sign-on and Voice Morphing, that can change the sound of your inworld voice to match your avatar.
As an alpha release, you should initially expect less stability than our the officially released Viewer 2.0.1. However, we are releasing this early in the cycle so that we can get good experience and data with the performance and stability fixes we've made. We intend to release weekly from here on out. The more residents that run these weekly builds, the better our data will be. If the viewer crashes, then please allow the "Viewer Crash Reporter" to do its thing, and give us as much detail as you can on what you were doing when the viewer crashed.


Responding to Your Feedback
The performance, stability, and usability improvements we've made for Viewer 2.1 Alpha have come as a direct result of the feedback we got after the launch of Viewer 2. We listened closely to your needs, suggestions, and issues and prioritized our development accordingly.

In addition to all of the features included in Viewer 2, including Shared Media, you now have the ability to:

  • Customize the Bottom Bar: We've added the ability to customize the button bar, to suit your preferences and activities (in Jira: VWR-17010, VWR-18813, VWR-18889), including adding buttons for Build (in Jira: VWR-17130), Search, Map, and Mini-Map to existing buttons, including Gesture, Move, View, and Snapshot. Simply right click on the bottom bar and choose which buttons you'd like to see on the bottom bar.
  • Resize the Chat Bar: You can also now resize the chat bar by dragging the right edge of the input to the desired width.
  • Option for Right-Hand Sidebar to Slide or Overlay Your Inworld Experience: One major issue that came up consistently was the right-hand sidebar (in Jira: VWR-17006, VWR-18324). We've responded here too, making it possible now to let it slide over your inworld view, rather than causing the inworld view to shift--your choice! (See the Advanced panel in Preferences - Automatic position for Sidebar.) The default preference is set for sidebar resizing of your inworld experience, just uncheck the box if you would like the world to stay as is.
  • Better Control Your Camera: Based on your feedback (in Jira: VWR-361), we've also recombined the pan and orbit controls to allow for more fluid camera control.


We've also improved performance and stability by tuning the graphics experience and cleaning up many bugs. Of course, we continue to listen to your feedback and have a substantial backlog of features that we'll continue to work on. But, these were the ones that consistently raised as issues and, subsequently, were prioritized in this release.

Today, Viewer 2.1 Alpha is available in English, German, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Italian, and Polish. Dutch is coming soon.


New Character For Voice
Voice Morphing is a feature that Residents have been asking for almost as long as we've had voice capabilities inworld. Simply put, it's the ability to change your avatar's voice to match any one of a number of tones and characteristics. Want to sound like a robot, a furry, or the opposite sex? With Voice Morphing, that ability is now just a few clicks away. The ability to change what your voice sounds like inworld will not only make it a richer and more interesting experience to be part of a community in Second Life, but will also help introduce voice to Residents who have been reluctant to use it in the past because they were uncomfortable making their real voice heard inworld. With Voice Morphing, you can be whoever you like in Second Life in voice as well as in appearance.

As a first step, we're introducing 25 voices, available for purchase via subscription in five packs of five each, with the following themes: scary, feminine, masculine, tiny, and techie. You'll be able to sample each one for free to find the morphs that work best for you.

To learn more, please read our SL Voice Morphing blog post and visit our SL Voice Morphing Microsite.

With OpenID, You Now Have Single Sign-on
OpenID allows you to authenticate to other Secondlife.com properties, such as the blog, Jira, and the SL Wiki, from Viewer 2.1 -- only one time. You no longer need to login multiple times on each property which saves time and frustration. Although some of these logins won't be available today, they will be soon.

Viewer 2.1 Alpha is a New Option to Choose From, Among Other Available Viewers
As you know, Viewer 2 will be the primary commercial viewer for all SL Residents: Viewer 2.1 Alpha and Viewer 2.0 are both available today. Keep in mind that Viewer 2.1 is an alpha release; expect more bugs and crashes than you'd experience in a "gold" version. Viewer 2.0 is still the latest "official" Second Life Viewer, and Viewer 1.23 is still available. In addition, the Third-Party Viewer Directory now contains 10 third-party viewers, many of which are based on our Snowglobe open-source program, for Residents with specialized needs. In fact, the Viewer 2.1 Alpha code will be available to the open source community shortly.

Moving to Rapid Iteration Cycles

As I mentioned earlier, we are aiming to iterate on viewer development more rapidly, releasing a new alpha version on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. This will help us stamp out bugs and make performance improvements more quickly than we've been able to do before. So, try out this first alpha version and let us know what you think. We're looking forward to working more closely with you as we push ahead.

Lastly, we want to thank you for trying Viewer 2, sharing your thoughts, and helping us guide the development process. Your input has been invaluable -- so keep it coming! Check into the Viewer 2 Forum, and post updates to Twitter as well (using the #slviewer2 hashtag).

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Kann das jemand in Deutsch zusammenfassen, das wäre nett?
 
nur kann man den Viewer nirgendwo runderladen :)

da steht zwar "Need Viewer 2.1? Download it now. " nur isr da kein Viewer 2.1 zum runderladen :)
 
Wird aber als Viewer 2.1 im Link deklariert

Code:
/download.cloud.secondlife.com/beta-releases/Viewer-2-1-0/Second_Life_2-0-2-205799_BetaViewer_Setup.exe
 
Tja ... man stelle sich vor:

Er, mit einem Frauen Ava und Frauen Stimme ...
Sie, mit einem Männer Ava und Männer Stimme ...

... und dann gemeinsam Voice-Sex :D
 
hihi, jedenfalls fällt der Geschlechterbeweis per Voice nun weg....dumm gelaufen, nun werden sie wohl auf Cam ausweichen müssen

/me holt schon die Papiertüte raus und malt ein Gesicht auf
 
Was jetzt Kila - du bist keine Aubergine in RL??????

Btw.. ich finds völlig ok, wenn sich Männer nen Frauen Ava basteln (oder als Furry oder sonstwas rumlaufen); aber wenn einer meiner Freunde nen Voicechanger benutzen würde, käme ich mir schon bissel veräppelt vor.
 
Wie sprechen denn Auberginenenten?
Musst mal nen Antrag stellen :D

Das Voice Morph ding ist mal ein Schritt richtung your world your imagination.... wer hätte sowas noch gedacht.
Allerdings wird das wohl über kurz oder lang wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiedermal diese eine Diskussion provozieren....... ich brauchs nicht aber wers mag :)
 
Schade, jetzt werde ich wohl nie hören können, wie ne Auberginenente klingt :(
 
Was jetzt Kila - du bist keine Aubergine in RL??????

Btw.. ich finds völlig ok, wenn sich Männer nen Frauen Ava basteln (oder als Furry oder sonstwas rumlaufen); aber wenn einer meiner Freunde nen Voicechanger benutzen würde, käme ich mir schon bissel veräppelt vor.

Ich hab doch schon immer gesagt: die Implementierung von Voice ins SL war der zweitgrößte Fehler in der Geschichte von LL.

Und jetzt Voice-Changer? Das bringt's nicht. Man kann zu leicht heraushören ob die Stimme verändert wurde - die Frequenzmodulationen klingen einfach zu unnatürlich.

Ich denke dass das Voice-Morphing ein bewusster Schritt ist auf dem Weg zur Veränderung von SL ist in Richtung Browsergame/FB-App.
Wenn man, wie ja für die Zukunft von Kingdon vorgesehen, über das FB-Konto SL betritt kommt man ja sowieso mit dem RL-Namen rein (tatsächlich von Kingdon als Option geplant), von daher würde sowieso klar, wer wer ist, und das VoiceMorphing würde dem nur eine unbewusst selbstironische RP-Note geben.
 
...Mal im ernst: wer braucht denn so was?
Ich dachte spontan das ist das Feature für Mona weil sie doch immer so auf Voice steht (gibt bestimmt ne Furry-Option)
:)

Aber 750 LD?

Ist das der Anfang von bezahlbaren im Viewer eingebauten Zusatz-Features?

...

Ansonsten scheint eine Reihe der Kritikpunkte/Vorschläge am Viewer 2.0 umgesetzt worden zu sein, was ich gut finde. Wenn auch nicht alles - aber der Rest kommt ja vielleicht noch...
 

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