Daden Navigator

About Daden Navigator

Daden Navigator, the first publicly available web browser for Second Life, allows residents of the virtual world to collaboratively browse the web, sharing one web screen between users who may, in real life, live on different continents.

Technology introduced by Linden Lab a couple of months ago allowed residents to view web pages live within Second Life - however they could not follow any links to surf from one page to another. Daden Navigator now lets residents do this - surfing the web collectively in the same way that Daden's recent Google Maps viewer allowed residents to share Google Maps within the world.

Daden Navigator provides all the functions that you expect to see in a normal web browser. It lets you set a home page or a bookmark, view bookmarks, and has back, refresh and search buttons. It's as close as you can currently get to a normal web browser in Second Life.

To use the browser just rez it onto land you own (or your Groups land). You can then use Second Life's text chat facility to browse the internet. Simply entering the url of the website in chat will automatically bring up the relevant page onto media screens within their SL space. To follow a link from that web page to another the user just "says" the name of the link, or some unique keywords from it. The new web page then loads.

Since Daden Navigator uses Linden Lab's existing web-page-on-a-prim technology it inherits the same current limitations as that technology - you can't scroll through long pages, fill out forms or view active Javascript or Flash content. However Daden Navigator has a "popout" command which loads the view page automatically into your own web browser in order to deal with difficult content.

How to Buy

Daden Navigator costs L$2400 and is being sold at:

• Daden Prime inside of Second Life
• SL Exchange

Enterprise Solutions

Although we make the Daden Navigator Copyable this is primarily to provide protection against any accidental deletion or memory issues. Whilst we're happy for users to have a couple of Navigators in use at a time any more than this begins to put high loads on our servers. If you expect to have more than a couple of concurrent users at a time, or just want to buy lots of Navigators for different users, then please contact us about our volume pricing.

Since Daden Navigator operates through a web proxy it will not be able to access content that is protected by your organisation's firewall - even if the user is also behind the firewall. To allow your users access to your Intranet - and also to speed response times - we can offer you your own version of the proxy, keyed to a dedicated version of Daden Navigator. The proxy is a single Perl script which you just install on your own servers. The Enterprise proxy costs £975+vat, including one year's support. Please contact us for details and to order.

Since Navigator does not handle forms some Intranet (or web site) content may be hard to access. For many sites/intarnets we can code bespoke solutions that open up yet more content to your SL users. We can keep these enhancements either private to you, or make them available to any visitor to your web site. Please contact us for details.

More Information

• Read the Press Release
• Read the Documentation notecard
• Check out the coverage we're getting

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