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Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 9:00

Second Life On Your Mobile Phone? Thanks to Vollee, the Answer is an Intriguing 'Yes'

N'Gai Croal

We've never quite been able to appreciate the phenomenon that is Second Life. Nevertheless, even the metaverse-averse like ourselves can appreciate the wizardry involved in our exclusive video demonstration of Second Life on a mobile phone. That wizardry is made possible by a startup called Vollee, which is capable of serving up games whose graphics and CPU requirements are more demanding than a typical phone can handle to the Vollee client which users install on their handsets. The folks at Vollee remap the menus and controls for each game to optimize them for the smaller screen and the limited controls. During a recent demonstration at Level Up HQ, we saw a PS2 board sports game running reasonably well on a phone. We'll have more coverage of Vollee in the weeks to come, as well as our thoughts on the implications of this technology, but for now, enjoy the video.

 

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Posted By: erick1299 (April 24, 2008 at 10:36 PM)

This is amazing. I cannot believe how good this looks on such a low-end phone. This could really be a turning point for games on mobile.


Posted By: volleedude (April 21, 2008 at 10:57 PM)

Sorry the video is not better but if you register (www.vollee.com/secondlife) you can get to see it for yourself, it is very crisp on the phone. You do not need a high-end phone, only one that is 3G with a data plan. All the rendering is done on our side, the application on your phone is tiny as it is just an interactive player.... and yes we will be doing other virtual worlds and MMOs.


Posted By: macaddict (April 21, 2008 at 8:32 PM)

interesting, but blurry & hard to read. the video takes too long to load. Not a huge fan of SL myself but would love it if this means that WoW can come to mobile - but how big is the application to fit-in SL? I don't have a high-end phone so I guess this is not for me :(


 
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