Second Life on a Mobile PhoneWindows Phone 7 (Mango

Version)Nii Annan

MSc Information Technology

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Brief description of the Project Developing on Windows Phone Screenshots Limitations Future Work

Brief Description Develop a mobile phone application to access

Second Life (Version of App supports InterLife Island only)

Good for having a quick glance at who is online without having to log on to your pc

App enables users log on and view other contacts currently online, displaying their location on the InterLife Island

Addition of communication feature to enable chat between in-world users and app users

Developing on Windows Phone

Register with the Microsoft App Hub (www.create.msdn.com/en-US/)

IDE (Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone)

Windows Phone Emulator Windows Mobile Device: HTC Trophy 7 for this

Project C-Sharp Coding XAML (Extensible Application Mark-up Language)

Screenshots

Figure 1. Visual Studio 2010 Express Figure 2. Screenshot of Windows Phone Emulator showing app Sign In page

Screenshots Continued

Figure 3. Emulator showing main map page . This version of the app supports the InterLife Island only. It’s an incomplete version of the page; additional modifications will be made as development continues.

Future Work

Currently this phone application only supports the InterLife Island on Second Life. An extension will be made in order to include other maps on Second Life

Due to time constraints the chat function might not be implemented. The next development of the app could include this function