OMVViewer-light is a text only client for 3D metaverses such as Linden Lab's SecondLife (tm), but is also compatable with other virtual world based systems using the LL protocol, based on servers such as OpenSim or Simian. It provides a mainly text only interface to the 3D virtual world. Its not completly text as you can see some textures and a map etc. But its a light weight interface compared to a full 3D rendering system.
So Why?, well its useful to be able to just chat from work, or answer Business or Friend IM's. Keep an eye on whats happening in your sim, or just interact with friends from a computer that is not up to the full 3D experience.
So what can it do? - A list of some of the main features is below -
What this means in practice is you can chat to people as normal, send and recieve IM's and group messages. Its also possible to interact with objects. Movement is possible via a mini map and the ability to follow or move to objects. Other AVs are shown on the mini map and radar. Access to inventory is provided, and in fact you can do a lot of the normal things you can in a full 3D client.
Written in C# based on libomv. We use a GTK# toolkit to be a little different and to ensure Linux compatability, other text only clients are using Winforms with all the latest features but that are not currently crossplatform. Omvviewer-light is the only text client that is cross-platform and is still under development. Linux compatability is a core goal and not optional.
As the app is written in C# it is binary cross platform and will run on Windows 32 bit, Linux 32 or 64 bit. 64 bit Windows is currently not supported (because of no Gtk# for 64 bit Windows). Any other platforms that support Mono/.Net and Gtk# may also run
The current developers are :-
Contributors :-