Teacup connects mobile users with Second Life

Software developer teacup introduced a technology that allows Internet users to chat in real time with Second Life dwellers without being logged in into Second Life world. There are two conditions in order to be able to do that: first, you must point your PC or mobile phone browser to teacup’s run community chat; second, at the moment you can only communicate with those from Second Life who are currently staying at Japan Resort virtual island, the fifth place in Second Life in terms of traffic, according to teacup. Teacup says they created a special avatar in Japan Resort that serves as a medium to establish connection between Second Life and the outside world users.

I went to teacup’s Second Life chat room to see how it works and was pleased with the results. All you need is to enter your nickname before entering the chat room. Inside, it looks rather like a very simple text chat room with multiple users shooting up messages at each other at once. At the time there were around six people chatting, two were from Second Life and the rest accessed from mobile phones.

I can see one huge benefit of this service – to be able to chat with your Second Life buddies on the go or at least away from your home PC, if you dare to do it on your work computer.

Source: Teacup news release (Japanese)