{"id":2018,"date":"2012-04-05T20:54:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2012-04-05T20:54:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:54:52","slug":"kitely-adds-teleports-and-additional-viewer-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"Kitely Adds Teleports And Additional Viewer Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks back I was in <a title=\"Kitely\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitely.com\/#!home\" target=\"_blank\">Kitely<\/a>, when CEO Ilan Tochner arrived to say hello to me inworld and we had an informal off the record chat. However, some of those off the record features that Ilan told me about have already been implemented! <a title=\"Kitely New Features\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.kitely.com\/2012\/03\/30\/teleport-between-kitely-worlds-and-additional-viewers-supported\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oren Hurvitz blogged at the end of March about the new features<\/a>, including world to world teleports and making the choice of viewer you use a less scary feature.<\/p>\n<p>Oren blogging is nice to see because Ilan is the person most recognised by people outside of Kitely and nice as Ilan is, it&#8217;s also worth pointing out the amount of work that Oren Hurvitz is putting into Kitely, Oren is the VP of R&amp;D as well as being a co-founder of Kitely, meaning he&#8217;s a very important person! There&#8217;s a team behind Kitely and it&#8217;s good that their work as a team is recognised.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Inara Pey\" href=\"http:\/\/modemworld.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/31\/kitely-offers-world-to-world-teleports-expanded-viewer-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">The new features have already been covered eloquently by Inara Pey<\/a>, indeed Kitely added a choice of viewers for Kitely based upon <a title=\"Inara Pey you should have stayed at home yesterday\" href=\"http:\/\/modemworld.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/02\/viewer-round-up-week-13\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inara&#8217;s excellent viewer reviews and roundups<\/a>. I&#8217;m not eloquent like Inara, but I have taken a\u00a0 dabble with the new features and they work rather well, although one does need to remember that Kitely is very much in beta still and in many ways the publicity for Kitely arose earlier in the process than they would have liked, having said that, I&#8217;m sure Oren and Ilan aren&#8217;t complaining!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Teleporting works in a number of ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Using the world map<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Using a landmark<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A friend Teleport offer<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The World Pages on the website<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Kitely is an on demand virtual world, it may be that the world you want to teleport to isn&#8217;t online, therefore the world needs to wake up before you can teleport there but this does not take long at all and does not hinder the user experience.<\/p>\n<p>The default viewer for Kitely is now Firestorm, however whereas before you had to edit a text file to change your viewer of choice, you can now do this from your settings on your account, which makes the whole process a lot easier, the viewers Kitely now officially supports are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Catznip Viewer<\/li>\n<li>Dolphin Viewer<\/li>\n<li>Exodus Viewer<\/li>\n<li>Firestorm<\/li>\n<li>Imprudence<\/li>\n<li>Kokua Viewer<\/li>\n<li>Nirans Viewer<\/li>\n<li>Restrained Love Viewer<\/li>\n<li>Second Life Viewer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are the viewers available from the dropdown menu in your settings, but only viewers you have installed appear as an option, which is sensible!<\/p>\n<p>Kitely is evolving, world to world teleports are an important feature as closing down the viewer before going to a new world is cumbersome, this is an important step in making the place feel more like a world rather than single sims, if they evolve the way the owners hope, there are exciting times ahead for Kitely but they are ensuring they walk before they can run, which is a sensible approach. The creators of Kitely are investing both time and money into this startup and working 16-20 hour days, six or seven days a week, so they are serious about this and want to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the features Ilan spoke to me about would really give Kitely a boost, but before any of them are unleashed they need to ensure they are feasible, won&#8217;t cause chaos with what already exists and that they have longevity, but I&#8217;d suggest you keep an eye on Kitely, it does have great potential and ambitious owners.<\/p>\n<p>There are of course challenges ahead, not just for Kitely, but for OpenSim grids as a whole, I find the best place to keep up with what&#8217;s happening in the OpenSim world is <a title=\"Hypergrid Business\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hypergridbusiness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hypergrid Business<\/a>. Maria Korolov writes many excellent articles and links to resources. However Maria also has a mention for Second Life too, OpenSim is not the enemy, even if you&#8217;re an extremely happy and proud Second Life user.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-via=\"Ciaran_Laval\" data-url=\"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2018\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks back I was in Kitely, when CEO Ilan Tochner arrived to say hello to me inworld and we had an informal off the record chat. However, some of those off the record features that Ilan told me about have already been implemented! Oren Hurvitz blogged at the end of March about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=2018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kitely Adds Teleports And Additional Viewer Support&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[381,1029,360],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-wy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}