METAbolt is a non-graphical metaverse (3D virtual world ) viewer. It is light weight and cross grid, which means it will work in Second Life as well as other grids that run on OpenSIM. Having said that, METAbolt is developed and maintained primarily for Second Life.

METAbolt is ideal if:

• the SL viewer is not allowed at your work place
• you have a low powered computer that has difficulty running the SL viewer
• you have a low speed internet connection e.g. dial up
• you need to run multiple alts at the same time
• you need to run alts/bots to carry out security, group management etc functions
• you can't or don't want to run the SL viewer all the time but need the ability to stay online for communications or other reasons

There is currently no other non-graphical viewer with the level of functionality and ease of use as METAbolt. More and more is being added with every new release.