Over the past few days the gang over from Meta Magic Studio has been doing some exploration and testing of Linden Lab’s new viewer for Second Life®.  The “biggest” thing for us is the Shared Media which finally allows us to bring in interactive web pages and lots more media.  We will be doing additional testing so we can get a handle on all of the advancements.

What “Shared Media” means….

Shared Media makes sharing standard Web-based media in Second Life easy and seamless, and enables content creators to make more compelling, interactive experiences. Basically, Shared Media brings the Internet inworld. For the more  technically inclined, what this means is that you can now put media textures on any prim in Second Life. More specifically, the viewer uses  WebKit to create a fully interactive, dynamic texture from a Web URL. This even includes support for Web-browser plug-ins, like the Adobe Flash Player. Even better, it’s not restricted to just one piece of Shared Media in a region.

Testing interactive web site in Second Life