Tag Archives: hypergrid

Wed, Oct 26 2011
The hypergrid turns three

The hypergrid turns three

Three years ago today, on Oct. 26, 2008, Crista Lopes fired off the email that marked the birth of the hypergrid. Crista Lopes Lopes, an OpenSim core developer, is also a professor of informatics at the... 

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Sun, Sep 11 2011
A modest proposal for hypergrid security

A modest proposal for hypergrid security

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As John Rogate pointed out today, the 4096 bug — which limits hypergrid teleports to no more than 4,096 regions in any direction — is a significant impediment to hypergrid travel and to the... 

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Sun, Sep 11 2011
It’s time to move all grids south

It’s time to move all grids south

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Hypergrid is probably one of the greatest and unifying features for OpenSim, and virtual worlds in general. Basically, virtual worlds cannot be what they should be without the hypergrid. It is the same... 

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Wed, Jul 20 2011
Aurora-Sim bridges gap to the hypergrid

Aurora-Sim bridges gap to the hypergrid

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Aurora-Sim is a hot, fresh, new distribution of OpenSim that promises some nice features for grid managers (see story here) but, until this weekend, its users were cut off from the rest of the metaverse. That... 

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Sun, Jun 19 2011
Curiosity, pioneer spirit drive hypergridders

Curiosity, pioneer spirit drive hypergridders

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Simple curiosity and the pioneering spirit are driving the growth in hypergridding, despite technical challenges. According to data from The Hypergates, the total number of travelers using their teleport... 

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Sun, Jun 5 2011
Hypergrid inventor calls for mass grid migration

Hypergrid inventor calls for mass grid migration

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Hypergrid inventor Crista Lopes, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine called today on big public grids to begin a mass migration to lower regions. The reason is that Second... 

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Sat, May 28 2011
Second Life vs. OpenSim

Second Life vs. OpenSim

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You cannot compare Second Life and OpenSim. One is a social world. The other is an open source piece of server software. You can’t even compare Second Life to individual grids using OpenSim as their... 

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Mon, May 23 2011
Why my autism project left ReactionGrid

Why my autism project left ReactionGrid

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[Editor's note: We encourage groups using virtual worlds to tell us about their experiences -- both good and bad -- in order to educate the public about this new industry segment, and to encourage platform... 

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Mon, May 16 2011
OMC currency gains popularity in the first quarter of the year

OMC currency gains popularity in the first quarter of the year

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The number of OpenSim grids accepting the multi-grid OMC virtual currency reached a record high in the first quarter of this year, as has the number of users of this hypergrid-enabled currency from Austian... 

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Sun, Apr 17 2011
OpenSim 102: Running your own sims

OpenSim 102: Running your own sims

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There are plenty of reasons to run OpenSim on your own computers. If you’re a content creator, you can have as many regions as you want, for free, and load them up when you need to work on them.... 

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Thu, Feb 17 2011
Hypergrid currency exchange adds Avination’s C$

Hypergrid currency exchange adds Avination’s C$

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Austria-based VirWoX began trading Avination’s C$ virtual currency today. VirWoX is best known as a leading exchange for Lindens in Europe, and for its hypergrid-enabled OMC currency. Frank Kappe “Given... 

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Wed, Feb 16 2011
ScienceGrid back on hypergrid

ScienceGrid back on hypergrid

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The non-profit, research-focused ScienceSim grid is now accessible via hypergrid teleports again, after more than a year of no hypergrid connectivity. ScienceSim turned off the hypergrid last January,... 

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Tue, Feb 15 2011
OMC hypergrid currency gained popularity in 2010

OMC hypergrid currency gained popularity in 2010

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In the past year, the OMC virtual currency has gained both popularity and usefulness, with both the total currency in circulation and the number of grids it’s available for use on growing. The OMC,... 

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Wed, Feb 9 2011
Hypergrid permissions coming to OpenSim

Hypergrid permissions coming to OpenSim

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Many grids today have hypergrid turned off, for fear that content will be taken from their grid to a less secure grid, copied, and distributed illegally. OpenSim developers are working to create a hypergrid-wide... 

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Tue, Nov 9 2010
The hypergrid’s not for everyone

The hypergrid’s not for everyone

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Ever since Crista Lopes, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine invented the hypergrid in 2009, people have been debating whether grids should be on or off the hypergrid. On the... 

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Tue, Oct 26 2010
Community in Distributed Spaces

Community in Distributed Spaces

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I have lost track of the number of times over the last few weeks that I have been somewhere in the OpenSim grid and heard someone say “This is like Second Life in the early days – I love it.” ... 

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Mon, Oct 25 2010
Paper: hypergrid allows virtual world to grow without limit

Paper: hypergrid allows virtual world to grow without limit

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The invention of the hypergrid will allow virtual worlds to grow to the size of the World Wide Web, or bigger, according to a paper made public today by OpenSim core developer Justin Clark-Casey. “The... 

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Sun, Oct 24 2010
A hypergrid glossary

A hypergrid glossary

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Like the World Wide Web that preceded it, the new 3D Web has its own vocabulary. We try to make it easier to keep up. avatar A representation of a user, usually as a three dimensional cartoon character.... 

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Thu, Oct 14 2010
Youth charity moves to OpenSim mini-grid

Youth charity moves to OpenSim mini-grid

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This month, the Youth for Christ charity celebrates its second year in Second Life. But the big party will be held in OpenSim, the charity’s new home. The reason? The Second Life Teen Grid, where... 

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Mon, Oct 11 2010
Maria on Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe

Maria on Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe

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I was a guest on Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe on Sunday, October 10 and had a great time talking about hypergrid and OpenSim. Other guests that night included singer-songwriter Senjata Witt, who performed... 

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Tue, Aug 31 2010
Does your grid need its own currency?

Does your grid need its own currency?

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Update: I still recommend the OMC currency, which has grown substantially since this article was first written and now used on 30 OpenSim grids. The two other currencies I mentioned — V$ and G$ —... 

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Wed, Aug 25 2010
OpenSim prices drop to $10 per region

OpenSim prices drop to $10 per region

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Correction: Coral Estate regions start at $20, not $10. OpenSim hosting prices have fallen to a record-low, with providers like New Voice offering regions for just $10 per month — though the performance... 

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Sun, Aug 22 2010
Hypergrid

Hypergrid

The hypergrid is like the World Wide Web of 3D worlds. You can create your own world, at your company, school, or government agency, and link it to worlds owned by partners, clients, or information providers. Hypergrid... 

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Sun, Aug 8 2010
SL Viewer 2 on the hypergrid

SL Viewer 2 on the hypergrid

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Second Life released Viewer 2 in February and, though many complained that the new interface was confusing and less efficient it did offer a significant new benefit to enterprise and education users: the... 

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Sun, Jul 18 2010
Hypergrid upgrade may cause travel hiccups

Hypergrid upgrade may cause travel hiccups

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The OpenSim community is currently in the process of upgrading to Hypergrid 1.5, a more secure version of the hypergrid protocol that allows teleportation between different grids. However, Hypergrid 1.5... 

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Tue, Jun 1 2010
Hypergrid travelers search for shopping

Hypergrid travelers search for shopping

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Hypergrid travelers are more likely to be looking for shopping than any other kind of individual destination, according to May visitor statistics of the Hyperica hypergrid destination directory. The top... 

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Sat, May 15 2010
OpenSim adds group, teleport functions

OpenSim adds group, teleport functions

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Developers released a new version of OpenSim this week, with support for group management of land, the ability to offer teleports to other avatars, and other minor improvements and bug fixes. Many OpenSim... 

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Tue, May 11 2010
When will virtual land be free?

When will virtual land be free?

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Today, Web space is free. Almost. You can get free accounts for blogs on Blogger.com and WordPress.com — among many others. And storage space is so cheap that some Web hosts offer virtually unlimited... 

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Thu, Apr 22 2010
Non-profits experiment with grid payments

Non-profits experiment with grid payments

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Virtual worlds run by non-profit organizations focus on providing a low-cost platform for other non-profits and individuals. To many in the non-profit sector, in-world economies belong on for-profit grids... 

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Mon, Apr 19 2010
FrancoGrid, AvatarHangout switch to OMC payments

FrancoGrid, AvatarHangout switch to OMC payments

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Two more grids have switched to the recently-released hypergrid-enabled OMC (Open Metaverse Currency) from Virwox, FrancoGrid and Avatar Hangout, bringing the total number of grids using the currency to... 

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Tue, Apr 6 2010
Ex-Linden vows to battle for interop

Ex-Linden vows to battle for interop

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Former Linden staffer Meadhbh Hamrick has vowed to continue her fight for virtual worlds interoperability. However, the commitment on the part of Linden Research is unclear, and the project is currently... 

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Thu, Apr 1 2010
Directory indexes 100 hypergrid destinations

Directory indexes 100 hypergrid destinations

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Press Release: The Hypergrid Worlds directory of hypergrid-enabled destinations indexes 100th regions yesterday The Hypergrid Worlds directory of hypergrid-enabled destinations has indexed its 100th regions... 

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Sun, Mar 28 2010
Obscurity is not security

Obscurity is not security

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Back in the early days of Internet technology it was feasible to have “security by obscurity” — putting up a document on the Internet, say, but making the address so complicated that... 

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Sun, Mar 28 2010
Where to get content for an OpenSim grid

Where to get content for an OpenSim grid

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One of the common complaints enterprises have about OpenSim is that if they set up a private grid, they’ll have to create all the content from scratch. Employees will have to create their own hair,... 

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Sat, Mar 20 2010
Designing for virtual visitors

Designing for virtual visitors

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In the last couple of weeks we’ve been traveling all over the hypergrid, here at Hypergrid Business, as preparation for the launch of our Hypergrid Worlds directory of hypergrid destinations. And... 

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Tue, Jan 19 2010
The 3D future

The 3D future

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The dawn of the 3D age is upon us. Over a dozen immersive virtual world platforms are competing for our attention — and that’s just in the business sector. Our kids and teenagers are already... 

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Fri, Jan 15 2010
10 predictions for 2010

10 predictions for 2010

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I just got off the phone with a company building an educational grid for a company in China — in OpenSim. They picked the platform not for its cheapness, but it’s feature set. This too often... 

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Thu, Jan 14 2010
How to hypergrid

How to hypergrid

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[Update: You can browse all hypergrid-enabled public OpenSim grids with Hyperica, the directory of hypergrid destinations. Directory indexes more than 100 shopping and freebie store locations. Updated... 

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Thu, Jan 14 2010
January Hypergrid List

January Hypergrid List

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[Update: You can browse all hypergrid-enabled public OpenSim grids with Hyperica, the directory of hypergrid destinations. Directory indexes more than 100 shopping and freebie store locations.... 

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

Private viewers, dead-end worlds

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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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Fri, Dec 18 2009
Top OpenSim Hosts of 2009

Top OpenSim Hosts of 2009

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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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Mon, Nov 30 2009
Grid analytics wishlist

Grid analytics wishlist

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I love Google Analytics and use it to track visitors to my Websites — and where they come from and how they leave. It would be great to have this same information for my grid. This could be a gadget... 

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Tue, Nov 24 2009
Hypergrid hiccups

Hypergrid hiccups

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[Update: You can browse all hypergrid-enabled public OpenSim grids with Hyperica, the directory of hypergrid destinations. Directory indexes more than 100 shopping and freebie store locations. Updated... 

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Fri, Nov 20 2009
Over 300 grids running OpenSim

Over 300 grids running OpenSim

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Over 300 grids run on the OpenSim open source virtual world platform today, a dramatic increase over the last few weeks, mostly due to the release of Crista Lopes’ Diva Distribution of OpenSim, and... 

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Thu, Nov 19 2009
1000 avatars on a sim

1000 avatars on a sim

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OpenSim worlds will soon be able to have 1,000 avatar visitors to a single location, according to ReactionGrid CEO Kyle Gomboy. Gomboy, who was speaking Thursday in front of a live Second Life audience... 

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Wed, Nov 18 2009
Free land in OpenSim

Free land in OpenSim

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Getting free OpenSim land is a great way to test out the OpenSim platform, or to have a home base for exploring the social aspects of OpenSim-based virtual worlds. Free land can also be used as a location... 

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Wed, Nov 18 2009
OpenSim in Intel spotlight

OpenSim in Intel spotlight

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Intel CTO Justin Rattner introduced OpenSim superstars Shenlei Winkler and Crista Lopes to the world yesterday at the at the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Ore. According to Rattner, super... 

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Fri, Nov 13 2009
OpenSim Content Management Wishlist

OpenSim Content Management Wishlist

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As my staff and I begin building out our third — third! — company grid it’s becoming apparent how much manual labor is required in creating office space and landscapes. The first time... 

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Wed, Nov 11 2009
OpenSim deployment gets easier

OpenSim deployment gets easier

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Normally, creating an OpenSim grid requires not just downloading and running the grid software but also setting up a MySQL database, configuring firewall ports, editing an initialization file, and editing... 

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Mon, Sep 7 2009
The future of virtual goods

The future of virtual goods

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[Update: You can browse all hypergrid-enabled public OpenSim grids with Hyperica, the directory of hypergrid destinations. Directory indexes more than 100 shopping and freebie store locations.... 

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