Germany’s Grid4Us and GermanGrid launched in-world money systems yesterday, using the VirWox virtual payment system. The virtual money — Open Metaverse Currency — is fully convertible...
Love on OSGrid (image by Lisa Roffo.)
Virtual world users continued to show their love of OpenSim this month, with a record-breaking increase in total regions counts on the biggest public grids.
The top...
The top 40 OpenSim grids gained approximately 500 regions this month, maintaining the growth rate set in the last quarter of 2009.
OSGrid gained almost 600 regions, for a growth rate of 17%. But OSGrid...
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...
The largest social OpenSim-based grids have gained over 1,000 regions since our last count in early September, bringing the total regions on these grids to over 6,500.
These are grids that allow anyone...
New OpenSim grids pop up all the time — and old ones change their hypergrid coordinates.
It doesn’t help that hypergrid addresses are still completely bizarre. In addition, teleports sometimes...
There are plenty of virtual worlds out there, floating, isolated in cyberspace. World of Warcraft, Second Life, OpenLifeGrid — each requires a separate login, and many worlds require their own software...