Linden Aiming for High-End Systems

In a long, ranging interview with the Industry Standard, Linden Lab Business Affairs Vice President Ginsu Yoon touched on the development focus for Second Life.  Yoon noted that if there was demand for a browser-based interface, Linden would work to address it, and Linden has talked about moving toward  new, lightweight interfaces with its IM client SLim. Ultimately, though, he says the company's focus is on the higher end systems and performance capabilities.

"I know that there's a lot of theory in the industry that what you really ought to be focusing on is the light-weight experiences, Web-inventable experiences, you can run it on any machine, you can run it on mobile devices, or wi-fi networks. Those things have their applicability too. Absolutely. By no means do I mean to say that you know, any other way of doing it is dead or has any hope," said Yoon. "It would be like saying 'there's no such thing as an engaging Linux experience.; Well, of course there is. But an engaging Web experience, a 2D experience that runs fast and slick -- fundamentally it doesn't show the top end of the range to what I believe we're developing toward as an industry." [via Industry Standard]