Two regions of Second Life's Fantasy Faire 2024, displayed with Sharpview 0.10.1, a new Second Life/ Open Simulator client.

This is an experimental client.

Another in my series of boring technical videos demonstrating various issues in metaverse rendering.

This one covers a bug which caused a 1-minute delay in adjacent regions appearing. A new fix was supposed to fix that, and this is the test run. It seems to be fixed.

Another in my series of boring technical videos to illustrate specific issues.

Metaverse tech demo. Sharpview viewer, Second Life content.

This is a drive around the Circuit de Corse in Second Life, a nice hour-long drive. It's a test of region crossings.

There's a problem with Second Life servers not providing certain information needed for a viewer to connect properly to a neighbor region. The standard viewers work around that server problem and display the region even though it is not fully connected. So users enter the region. Entering a partially connected region usually works, but sometimes it fails.

This viewer won't show a region until it is fully connected. In this demo, using our Sharpview viewer (all new, all safe Rust code) we wait for regions to become visible before driving into them. We have not yet seen a region crossing failure in this mode. We have seen region crossing failures when entering regions not fully live.

This provides a strong hint that what we call the "delayed EnableAgentCommunication bug" is responsible for some region crossing failures.

Tech test of the Sharpview viewer. Mostly boring.

This demonstrates a problem with Second Life simulator messages. See

https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/503010-obscure-question-when-does-the-simulator-send-establishagentcommunication-to-the-viewer

This is supporting data for a bug report.

Support for a bug report for a renderer under development. Not of general interest, even though it has a cat in it.

Sharpview tech demo.

A test of Sharpview, an experimental client for metaverses. It's a half hour of walking the roads in the Robin Loop area of Second Life, with occasional looks into businesses open to the public.

Here it's being used with Second Life. This is the raw, unedited version, with no commentary.

Demo of a very specific problem with Second Life simulators. The EstablishAgentCommunication message is being delayed for an unknown reason. This illustrates the problem. Only interesting if you work on Second Life / Open Simulator technology.

Uses Sharpview, from animats.com/sharpview

2023 Fantasy Faire in Second Life.

Demo of Sharpview experimental high-performance metaverse viewer, from Animats.

Now this is what a metaverse item store should look like. This is video from a live demo, rendered at 60 FPS, with user-created content loaded from remote servers as needed. No missing objects, no blurry half-loaded textures.

http://animats.com/sharpview/

Rendering test - both camera and objects in motion

This is a tech demo for a fix to Rend3 on 2023-03-21