Sun’s open source virtual world platform — Project Wonderland — will not be receiving any support from Oracle, which is currently in the process of acquiring Sun, according to the developers.
“We...
It will take at least six months to get the Xenki OpenSim viewer ready for public use, according to the new lead developer on the open source project.
Kevin Tweedy, founder and head of Philadelphia-based...
The battle for the future of the 3D Web is about to get hot… and steamy. Utherverse CEO tells us that he’s planning to launch an all-out attack against the other virtual world platforms out...
If Opensim is the Apache of the Metaverse, then what will be the Joomla of the Metaverse? This isn’t a idle or rhetorical question, it’s something which has to be answered if Metaverse solutions...
When I show people around OpenSim, the first question they ask is: “So this is like Second Life? Only worse?”
Which is a valid question. Any particular OpenSim world — like, say, OSGrid,...
I missed the first Internet investment boom. I was covering wars in Central Asia, but that’s no excuse. I could have invented Yahoo! — it started with a guy in his dorm room with a list of...
Unlike Second Life, the open source virtual world platform OpenSim does not have a built-in currency system. To users, this is a significant lack of functionality – but developers see it as a feature.
The...
Virtual worlds can be difficult to access, with most of the popular ones — such as Second Life and games like World of Warcraft — requiring the installation of special software.
The new OpenSim-based...
Running an OpenSimulator instance is a challenging prospect for many — there are a number of important criteria you should be looking at before purchasing, but the single most important question...
When it comes to virtual world real estate and design, DeepThink has been a big player, operating one of the largest continents in Second Life.
A DeepThink sea-side cottage.
But in recent months, the...
According to OpenSim core developer Charles Krinke, there are 330 key functions in Second Life – and 300 of them have been fully implemented in OpenSim.
Of the remaining 30, half have to do with vehicle...
Remember Compuserve? You had a dial-up modem and you could log into this bulletin board and send messages to other members. You had to stay inside Compuserve though – there was no place else to go. Well,...
Charles Krinke joined the OpenSim core development team a year and eight months ago.
In that time, he saw the project go from being a collection of 600 messages – packets – used by Second Life browsers...
The OpenSim project – while backed by big companies like IBM and Intel – is not beholden to them. In fact, it works more like a pick-up game of basketball. People show up at the same court, break into...
This year, the 3d Internet is moving beyond niche applications like World of Warcraft and Second Life, with rapidly-evolving enterprise-level platforms – and development firms are springing up to serve...
Today I stepped through a StarGate — several times — to travel between different grids in the OpenSim universe.
This may sound like no big deal but trust me, it is. It is like … yesterday,...
The three top businesses in Second Life are land sales, item sales, and (presumably — no hard data available) sex.
For businesses looking to explore Second Life, however, these are the worst businesses...
