The free Android smartphone app Google Play "Minetest" - “This is our official build from the original source code. Open source license (LGPL 2.1+), no cost to download and play, no ads”.
The SecondLife client “Second_Life_1-23-5-136262_Setup.exe” of 2009-10-15 is the latest editions for W2k . With this edition, You may still access SecondLife in 2013-02 . But it is → “Baked Texture” / “Project Sunshine” incompatible .
The free “Firestorm Viewer” SecondLife client for WinXP, Linux, MacOSX. You are suggested to use computer equipped with CPUs with SL2 feature → “Baked Texture” / “Project Sunshine” compatible .
The free discontinued “Phoenix Viewer” SecondLife client for WinXP, Linux, MacOSX → “Project Sunshine” incompatible .
Computer with graphics card with too little graphics card memory ( e.g. 64 MBytes RAM ) - Though SecondLife is running, the display is not proper and not suitable for operation - In many cases, you just see incomplete sets of buildungs and landscapes.
Neither legacy nor current versions of SecondLive viewers, including “Phoenix Viewer” and ”“Firestorm Viewer”, refuse to play on Win8-Pro, by the error message “Second Life is unable to run because your video card drivers did not install properly, are out of date, or are for unsupported hardware. Please make shure you have the latest video card drivers and even if you have the latest, try reinstalling them”.
I was told that the SecondLife viewers run on WinXP and Vista on that computer, if the latest dedicated graphics driver for WinXP or Vista respectively, is installed . But for Win7 / Win8, there are no dedicated graphics drivers anymore .
The commercial Archipelis Designer for Windows - “Archipelis Designer convert 3D models into Linden Labs' Second Life (SL) formats”.
The OpenSource SourceForge "ByronStar SL", SourceForge "ByronStar SL" - “An eclipse based IDE for SecondLife owned by Linden Labs. Starting point is an editor for Linden Scripting Language (LSL) with many features (e.g. parser)”.
The OpenSource Drupal - Second Life framework - “This module is a simple Second Life framework, allowing objects inside Second Life to interact with application on your web server and do neat things”.
Experts told me, that free 3D designer tools ( e.g. the Windows App “3D Builder” ) usually have export formats accepted by animation tools ( e.g “Blender” ).
Expert told me, that FBX is the ideal format to transfer ( Blender ) animation tool to game engines development tool, e.g. Unity3D.
Or you use 3D conversion tools to reduce complexity ( and not just to convert a data format ).
The commercial PiXYZ - “PiXYZ Software helps industrial companies and 3D consumers re-use CAD data for any visualization scenario, saving them time, effort and maximizing visualization performance”.
To use stuff designed or created outside SecondLife ( i.e. on your local computer with local software ) in SecondLife, you have to upload it to SecondLife. Uploads to SecondLife are not free.
In opposite, it is free to desing and create all your stuff within SecondLife. You may keep stuff in your inventory, for free.
LSL Wiki - “An effort to document the LSL scripting language of Second Life”.
Hypergrid Business "Cloud Party closing in February", 2014-01-24 - “Cloud Party, a mesh-based virtual world that runs in a browser, announced that it will close on February 21 and provided instructions for exporting meshes and images”.
The just-commercial virtual fair cloud platform Fairsnext.
“Virtuelle und hybride Messen”, “Die Zukunft von Veranstaltungen gestalten. Wir verhelfen Veranstaltern, Eventagenturen und Unternehmen zur optimalen Lösung für virtuelle und hybride Messen oder Events in Echtzeit-3D mit intelligentem Match-Making”.
New website, discovered in 2024-01, as named on a plate on a miniature railway showcase in Braunschweig .
“Standorte” .
Miniature railway showcases on the German railway stations “Braunschweig HBF”, “Chemnitz”, “Dresden HBF” ( 2x, next to the platforms 9 and 21 ), “Dresden Neustadt” ( in the entrance hall ), “Frankfurt HBF”, ”Hamburg-Altona”, “Köln HBF”, “Leipzig HBF” ( 2 x, next to the platforms ), “Stuttgart HBF”, “Duisburg” ( between platform 1/2 and the main railway station hall ) by “Werner Ehret & Co. KG”, Bachstr. 151, D-40217 Düsseldorf, Tel. 0211-341036.
TV series “CSI:NY”, season 4, episode 76 “Down the Rabbit Hole”.
EN.Wikipedia "CSI: NY (season 4)", episode 76, “Down the Rabbit Hole”, 2007-10-24 - “A murder victim bears a striking resemblance to a well-known avatar in the online role-playing game Second Life. Mac is forced to enter the game himself to solve the mystery surrounding her death”.
Helden auf Helgeland - “Die 'Helden auf Helgeland' von Henrik Ibsen - eine Produktion vom Schauspielhaus Hamburg auf der Bühne im Malersaal und in Second Life”, 2008-01-06.
Second Life Stories - The commercial E-book “Colette Pichot 'MAKING REAL MONEY IN AN UNREAL WORLD: Tips, Hints and Secrets from 15 of Second Life’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs'”.
EN.Wikipedia "Snow Crash", DE.Wikipedia "Snow Crash" - “The Metaverse, a phrase coined by Stephenson as a successor to the Internet, constitutes Stephenson's early 1990s vision of how a virtual reality–based Internet might evolve shortly”.
Blog BukTomBlog - “Burkhard Tomm-Bub,M.A.=BukTom Bloch. Oder umgekehrt... Hier gibt es Informationen & Bilder, etc. aus Second Life (SL). Literatur, Kultur & Gute Werke sollen dabei Schwerpunkt sein. Alles Gute-in allen Welten! MfG & cu! ”.