Monthly Archives: December 2009

Wed, Dec 23 2009
Virtual world alternatives

Virtual world alternatives

Here at Hypergrid Business, we write a lot about the Second Life-OpenSim-realXtend ecosystem. We love the low cost, the flexibility, and the massive amounts of content available for this platform. But... 

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Tue, Dec 22 2009
Private viewers, dead-end worlds

Private viewers, dead-end worlds

The great advantage of using OpenSim is that a grid owner can leverage all the work done by the open source community. The OpenSim server platform is updated continually, with new bug fixes and new features... 

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Mon, Dec 21 2009
Metaplace closing a warning for virtual worlds users

Metaplace closing a warning for virtual worlds users

On Monday, Metaplace announced that the company was shutting down its virtual world. This virtual world wasn’t the first platform of choice for enterprise users. The game-like interface, the kid-friendly... 

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Mon, Dec 21 2009
Why freebies are good for virtual designers

Why freebies are good for virtual designers

As OpenSim-based social grids continue to grow, Second Life content designers are understandably worried about the free content floating around these grids — content which may have been ripped off... 

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Mon, Dec 21 2009
Imagining meeting spaces

Imagining meeting spaces

A Virtual Immersive Environment is Not a Parallel Universe, It is an Alternative Reality. While it is possible to make a 3D virtual immersive environment (VIE) look exactly (or pretty darn close) to your... 

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Sat, Dec 19 2009
Virtual worlds cut commutes

Virtual worlds cut commutes

Bernhard Drax (s Draxtor Despres in Second Life) has produced a nice report about using virtual worlds to cut down telecommuting time — and create a greener work place. AKPC_IDS += "33414,"; ...

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Sat, Dec 19 2009
Germans set half million prim record

Germans set half million prim record

Germany’s Talentraspel virtual worlds Ltd.  announced they reached a record number of prims this week, with half a million separate objects in a single OpenSim region. According to the company,... 

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Fri, Dec 18 2009
City Tech charts new ground in Second Life

City Tech charts new ground in Second Life

Press Release These days, City Tech faculty and students are happy to oblige if anyone tells them to “get a life.” That’s because several classes are involved with developing the College’s presence... 

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Fri, Dec 18 2009
Simulations are future of education

Simulations are future of education

Virtual Worlds, Simulations, and Games for Education: A Unifying View I wrote this article for Innovate magazine a few months ago, to coincide with the release of Learning Online with Games, Simulations,... 

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Fri, Dec 18 2009
Top OpenSim Hosts of 2009

Top OpenSim Hosts of 2009

The choice of OpenSim hosting companies has grown a bit but is still very limited, due to the fact that the OpenSim platform has only become stable — and grids hyperlinked — at the start of this year. If... 

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Wed, Dec 16 2009
Funsourcing in virtual worlds

Funsourcing in virtual worlds

Imagine a place full of literate adults, 100 percent broadband penetration – and people willing to work for pennies an hour. There’s no minimum wage, no unemployment insurance, and no labor laws. Sounds... 

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Wed, Dec 9 2009
Law book to address virtual issues

Law book to address virtual issues

Press Release: Virtual Reality Collides with Real-world Law in Forthcoming Book by Rutgers–Camden Law Professor CAMDEN –  In the new James Cameron movie “Avatar,” characters “inhabit”... 

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Fri, Dec 4 2009
A hybrid model for global sales meetings

A hybrid model for global sales meetings

One year ago (nearly to this day), Cisco Systems announced the cancellation of their annual “Global Sales Meeting” – in a statement, Cisco CEO John Chambers was quoted: In almost all instances for... 

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Fri, Dec 4 2009
Virtual events in 2010

Virtual events in 2010

Back in August, I jumped the gun a bit and wrote a “year in review” posting about virtual events.  Now that we’re in December,  I think it’s high time to peer into the Magic 8 Ball and speculate... 

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