On Tuesday, Vollee, a 3G streaming services provider, began offering a free, open beta version of Second Life for cell phones. It’s available for 40 Wi-Fi-enabled and 3G cell phones with more handset compatibility coming soon. Including the iPhone.
Second Life Mobile enables users to teleport all over the virtual world, and chat with other online friends.
How does Vollee squeeze a graphics-hungry PC game on such compact devices, asks C/Net?
Second Life Mobile operates as a thin client downloaded to the high-end cell phone. It communicates with the full, unmodified game that’s hosted on Vollee’s servers.
All the heavy lifting happens on Vollee’s end, with the mobile-friendly results streaming to each individual handset.
Perhaps you’ll be able to Teleport in from Google’s Streetview or one of the other terrific location-based mapping services.
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