Presentation HUD for Viewer 2.0

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New! For Second Life, and more specifically for Viewer 2.0 now I can take advantage of the new shared media feature, here's my quick-and-dirty "Presentation HUD".

While wearing this HUD, simply type "/48 ", i.e., "/48 http://www.google.com/"and it will automatically rez a web browser in front of you, enabling you to give ad-hoc presentations, look things up, or show videos, pictures, and other web content to your in-world friends. Here's a quick example showing my blog:




And since this is HTML-on-a-prim, you can browse freely, and use the regular back/forward/zoom controls.

If you right-click on the rezzed browser and "Touch" it, you get a menu of options. By default, only the owner of the browser is able to use the browser controls and interact with the web page (thus, suitable for presentations), but to enable everyone to browse and interact, you can use the "All" option; "OwnerOnly" sets it back. The "Reset" option forcibly resets the browser to the home page you specified on the /48 line; and, finally, the "Close" option de-rezzes the browser when you're done.

NOTE: Note that it do absolutely no validation on the URL you specify; I didn't want to limit what the Shared Media feature might handle in future, but this does mean if you typo the URL, you'll need to delete the browser and make a new one.

And, obviously, you need script and rez permissions for wherever you are for this to work at all.

Get it on XstreetSL here or from the usual bat-vendor at the usual bat-location!

L$ 50.