Second Life's latest rendering engine, Windlight, is a visual revolution for the metaverse. Reflectivity, translucency, lighting and atmospheric effects all receive a tremendous upgrade under the new engine.

Currently in First Look beta status, issues that apparently need to be addressed including object rezzing and optimization for mid-level systems (forget about running this on anything less than a 256mb video card and 2Gb of RAM, you'll need a draw distance closer than the end of your virtual nose on less hardware than that.)

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