Meshes, multiple lights and advanced shadows?
If this has anything to do with how the SL viewer will work in the future – I’d say this is the right direction :-) :
Deferred Rendering 1
Deferred Rendering 2
Deferred Rendering 3
Screenshots stem from a link from this (open) conversation which lifted some NDA for about 5 minutes (propably a world record).
How ths goes together with the thought about an web based viewer? I don’t know. Clearly the above is not the result of some fancy HTML5 mangling nor did it happen on your average office PC.
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The pictures come from this extraordinary picasa photo stream sporting 93 images all worth watching. On the other hand some of the pics are from 2008 -I didn’t learn from them until today so I don’t know how this fits in any roadmap.
Here is an video regarding meshes in the SL viewer.
Posted by Dirk 
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