Lumiya may not have the same graphics fidelity as a full viewer, but if you’re looking for something that can provide you with an in-world view while on the move with a low-end laptop and for whatever reason, don’t want to use Bright Canopy, running it in through the Bluestacks emulator might be a viable optionĪlso, as you are running through a laptop there might be a temptation to push Lumiya’s settings to the max. If that is what you’re looking for when on the move and don’t have a good laptop, then Bright Canopy is your best option outside of a new computer / GPU.
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Īlso keep in mind that as Lumiya is an Android app, the graphics don’t have the same fidelity as the viewer, and running it through an emulator isn’t going to magically give you that kind of fidelity. Given Lumiya is running on a “standard” computer, it’s also easy to slip into the expectation that it will respond to things like ALT-camming when it obviously won’t – this is still an Android app running through an emulator, after all! Given this, it goes without saying that if you’re new to Lumiya, you have a lot to learn via the UI and options – feel free to use my reviews linked to above 🙂. While Bluestacks does a credible job of allowing mouse and pointer control and the use of keyboard controls such as the arrow keys and WASD, I tended to find that things did sometimes “stick”, prompting a return to the on-screen movement / camera focus keys (lower right corner of the screen). Obviously, being built for Android, it is intended for touch screen use. There are a few things to note when running Lumiya in this way. Running Lumiya via Bluestacks on a Windows notebook
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Run Google Play and install Lumiya (note the app does have a one-off purchase fee if you have not previously installed it).Run the Bluestacks player and sync it to your Google Android account.
Download and run the Bluestacks installer.It makes running Lumiya on Windows a breeze in four easy steps: While I’ve not played at length with things, I did come across an Android emulator called Bluestacks which runs on the PC, and used to be available for Mac*. One possible “why” might be if you have a relatively low-end laptop you use when on the move, and would like to use it on occasion to access SL, but don’t want to meet the costs involved in running Bright Canopy’s (very excellent) service (which I’ve also covered in these pages), and would prefer something bigger than the average android device screen when accessing SL. I suspect the responses to this question would be a combination of “No,” and “Why would I want it to?” The former is to be expected, and the latter not unreasonable after all if you have a computer capable of running the Second Life viewer reasonably well why would you want to try anything else? I’ve followed its development through these pages at length since it first appeared back in 2012, all the way through to the most recent 2.6 iterations and while things have been quiet for a while, rest assured, development work is continuing, although developer Alina Lyvette has been very caught-up with physical world matters.īut did you know you can also run Lumiya on Windows*? Lumiya is an Android client for Second Life which is really quite remarkable.
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