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"Linden Lab is hoping to rejuvenate the community for its massively multiplayer online (MMO) video game Second Life by supporting the popular\u00A0Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.\r\n\r\nBy downloading the new\u00A0Project Viewer for Windows, Mac or Linux, players can now experience the virtual world from the perspective of their avatar. The developer-friendly Oculus Rift will be detected automatically and the entire heads-up display (HUD) can be shown through the futuristic goggles.\r\n\r\nLinden Lab says the head-tracking data from the Oculus Rift headset has been leveraged so that your avatar's head moves in-tune with your own cranium. For ease of use, there's also a new &amp;quot;align to look&amp;quot; setting which means your character will begin to walk in the direction you're looking.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;We\u2019ve made some minor adjustments to the regular Second Life UI in order to present it in head-mounted display (HMD) mode, but the UI headset users will experience with this project Viewer is still essentially the same as you\u2019d see without an Oculus Rift,&amp;quot; the company said.\r\n\r\nOculus VR, now owned by Facebook, is yet to release a commercial version of its Oculus Rift headset. The developer kit has proven popular though and should appeal to early adopters who are still intrigued by Second Life's quirky world.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Linden Lab [via PCGamesN]\r\n\r\nFeatured image credit:\u00A0ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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