Remember Second Life? The virtual world launched on the desktop web back in 2003 with 3D avatars and spaces for various social activities. Believe it or not, it has been running continually this entire time — and now it’s coming to mobile for the first time. From a report: In fact, this will be the first time that Second Life has expanded beyond the PC (across Windows, macOS, and Linux) in any form. In a post to the virtual world’s community web forum, a community manager for Second Life developer Linden Lab shared a video with some details about the mobile version’s development, and announced that a beta version of the mobile app will launch sometime this year.
The video reveals that the app was built using Unity — in part to make for an easy path to releasing and maintaining the app on multiple platforms, including the iPhone, iPad, Android phones, and Android tablets. It also includes a few minutes of footage of Second Life’s detailed character models and environments, with accompanying commentary by Linden Lab developers about bringing as much of the experience to mobile as possible.
