Get your Second Life live on your cellphone

by Brian White, posted Feb 13th 2007 at 4:00PM

Are you sneaking away from work early to get your "Second Life" with it in the virtual space? Well, millions do that every day, so it seems strangely natural for someone or something to port the Second Life virtual environment to a mobile somehow. It's been done -- and as a J2ME application that should work on almost any java-enabled cellphone. Killer features here, according to Comverse Technology which created the app, are integrated SMS and instant messaging -- and even streaming of mobile video directly inside the Second Life mobile app. But if that data connection drops out, expect your avatar to wilt over and wait for that nifty EV-DO or HSDPA connection to return in full force.

Filed under: Software, Misc

Tags: Mobile Gaming, Mobile Role Playing, Mobile Second Lfe, Mobile Second Life, MobileGaming, MobileRolePlaying, MobileSecondLfe, MobileSecondLife, Second Life, SecondLife, Virtual Gaming, VirtualGaming

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SuezanneC Baskerville @ Mar 4th 2007 1:28AM

I wonder if there is any connection between this sort of development and the impending addition of voice to Second Life?

Will one be able to use their cellphone to talk with voice enabled avatars in SL?

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