Very fast to load, but for an older person, the music at the initial location was really off-putting. It was very loud and the lyrics were avocating burning and killing. This may be entertaining for male teenagers, but it immediately had me looking for the mute button. Fortunately, the interface is very easy to use and the mute button was the first control I used!
Being familiar with SL, the navigation controls were immediately obvious and easy to use, unlike competing environments. Setup time is far faster than nearly any other competitive environment. However, switching to full screen on a dual screen setup was rather disconcerting. The screen blacked out for nearly 15 seconds. Fortunately, I had seen the same thing occur on a Swedish environment just a few days ago and it recovered in exactly the same way. My partner and I used Microsoft Live Messenger in that environment (we have not tried it in this one), and switching the screen to access that caused significant problems with the screen switching. I don't anticipate that would be an issue here since the environment can be windowed or full screen.
I use near ultra high graphics settings when exploring SL, so seeing some of the environments on this viewer were relatively disappointing, but lag was nearly non-existent. I did not know where region crossings were in the sims I tested, so I was not able to test that. Even after the most recent update and restart, we are still experiencing 8 second plus delays when crossing borders in SL, so that is still an extremely high priority for us.
In summary, I would suggest gathering a bit of information prior to immersing a new user in the environment to place them in a world that is reasonably appropriate.
This is an exceptionally great first step and should whet the appetite of anyone that might be interested in exploring a virtual world!
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Very fast to load, but for an older person, the music at the initial location was really off-putting. It was very loud and the lyrics were avocating burning and killing. This may be entertaining for male teenagers, but it immediately had me looking for the mute button. Fortunately, the interface is very easy to use and the mute button was the first control I used!
Being familiar with SL, the navigation controls were immediately obvious and easy to use, unlike competing environments. Setup time is far faster than nearly any other competitive environment. However, switching to full screen on a dual screen setup was rather disconcerting. The screen blacked out for nearly 15 seconds. Fortunately, I had seen the same thing occur on a Swedish environment just a few days ago and it recovered in exactly the same way. My partner and I used Microsoft Live Messenger in that environment (we have not tried it in this one), and switching the screen to access that caused significant problems with the screen switching. I don't anticipate that would be an issue here since the environment can be windowed or full screen.
I use near ultra high graphics settings when exploring SL, so seeing some of the environments on this viewer were relatively disappointing, but lag was nearly non-existent. I did not know where region crossings were in the sims I tested, so I was not able to test that. Even after the most recent update and restart, we are still experiencing 8 second plus delays when crossing borders in SL, so that is still an extremely high priority for us.
In summary, I would suggest gathering a bit of information prior to immersing a new user in the environment to place them in a world that is reasonably appropriate.
This is an exceptionally great first step and should whet the appetite of anyone that might be interested in exploring a virtual world!