Tag Archives: OpenSim

Wed, Mar 30 2011
PioneerX supports clouds, open to Facebook

PioneerX supports clouds, open to Facebook

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Kitely may be turning the OpenSim hosting model upside down with its metered pricing, but other OpenSim hosting providers have already embraced the cloud. “We already utilise cloud based resources... 

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Tue, Mar 29 2011
When do cloud-based sims make sense?

When do cloud-based sims make sense?

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With Kitely‘s bill-per-minute, cloud-based OpenSim hosting service now available, non-technically inclined folks now have a real choice in what kind of hosting they’d like to have. Here is... 

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Mon, Mar 28 2011
Tipodean and Kitely should talk. Seriously, guys!

Tipodean and Kitely should talk. Seriously, guys!

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How’s this for a match made in heaven: One company has a Web-based viewer for OpenSim. Still in early, experimental stages, but fast and responsive. Add avatars, voice, and the ability to sit down... 

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Mon, Mar 28 2011
Tipodean’s Web viewer now in public beta

Tipodean’s Web viewer now in public beta

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San Francisco-based Tipodean Technologies launched a public beta today of its BuiltBuy.me Web-based viewer for OpenSim and Second Life. The viewer, formerly known as Canvas, is free, and can be embedded... 

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Mon, Mar 28 2011
Proprietary code is good for OpenSim

Proprietary code is good for OpenSim

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A lot of debate about open source code versus proprietary code these days centers on the personalities of the folks involved, or on the politics behind the idea of open source. But, from a business perspective,... 

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Sun, Mar 27 2011
Kitely brings Facebook, instant regions to OpenSim

Kitely brings Facebook, instant regions to OpenSim

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In a major step forward for usability of OpenSim, Israel-based startup Kitely has created a Website that allows any Facebook user to create, load and enter an OpenSim world in less than two minutes. The... 

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Fri, Mar 25 2011
Paper: OpenSim may help fashion industry

Paper: OpenSim may help fashion industry

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Using tools built on the OpenSim virtual world platform could transform fashion design, Fashion Research Institute, Inc. CEO Shenley Winkler said in a paper released yesterday, by saving money, reducing... 

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Thu, Mar 24 2011
Avination residents welcome Vivox voice

Avination residents welcome Vivox voice

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Avination grid owner Melanie Thiekler rolled out Vivox voice to her grid today — at no extra cost to residents or land renters. Residents immediately began trying it out, and it sounded great. Those... 

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Thu, Mar 24 2011
InWorldz develops own scripting engine

InWorldz develops own scripting engine

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InWorldz has taken a further step way from mainline OpenSim Tuesday with the announcement of a proprietary scripting engine, called Phlox, which is expected to enter beta testing this week. The new scripting... 

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Wed, Mar 23 2011
Why PioneerX matters

Why PioneerX matters

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Yesterday, I posted a story (yes, a little on the long side) about a new services from PioneerX Estates where they manage your whole grid for you. Everything — estates, land rentals, voice —... 

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Tue, Mar 22 2011
PioneerX offers no-fuss grid management

PioneerX offers no-fuss grid management

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Back when 3rd Rock Grid first launched in the spring of 2008, it was one of the earliest OpenSim grids and the owners had to figure out everything on their own. The grid’s managers had to learn how... 

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Tue, Mar 22 2011
Beware vendors bearing gifts

Beware vendors bearing gifts

Resellers of open source software survive by making life easier for their customers. For example, Website hosting providers handle the setup, backups, updates, load balancing and server management for... 

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Thu, Mar 17 2011
Design firm builds virtual tours, 3D learning games, university grid

Design firm builds virtual tours, 3D learning games, university grid

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Working in the space of 3D virtual immersive environments (VIE) is a small, but dedicated group of people who are creating some really wonderful and powerful learning. The other day I had a chance to... 

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Tue, Mar 15 2011
Top OpenSim grids gain regions, users

Top OpenSim grids gain regions, users

The world’s top 40 public OpenSim grids gained 424 regions and 12,746 registered users since the middle of February, a slightly slower than usual growth rate. Total regions on OpenSim's 40 largest... 

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Tue, Mar 15 2011
Avination first with Vivox voice on OpenSim

Avination first with Vivox voice on OpenSim

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OpenSim’s largest commercial grid, Avination, announced a major new milestone today — it will be offering in-world Vivox voice at no charge to its residents and region renters, as well as to... 

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Wed, Feb 23 2011
Aurora-Sim newest option for OpenSim servers

Aurora-Sim newest option for OpenSim servers

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OpenSim grid owners now have another option for their grid server software — Aurora-Sim. This branch of OpenSim, still in “pre-alpha” stage of development, promises more security features... 

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Tue, Feb 15 2011
Avination explodes; OSGrid sweeps clean

Avination explodes; OSGrid sweeps clean

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The number of regions of the 40 largest OpenSim grids went down this month for the first time since July, from 15,623 to 13,069, a loss of over 2,300 regions, a result of a long-overdue housekeeping on... 

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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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Tue, Feb 15 2011
China school programs in 3D

China school programs in 3D

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Changchun is a city in northeast China known for its auto plants. David Deeds “We’re the Detroit of China,” said David Deeds, IT manager and teacher at the Changchun American International School.... 

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Thu, Feb 10 2011
SpotOn3D launches developer program

SpotOn3D launches developer program

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OpenSim grid developers Powersynch, LLC — the folks behind the SpotOn3D group of grids – launched a certified developer program today. Philippe Pascal The... 

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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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Thu, Jan 20 2011
OpenSim grids reach new peak

OpenSim grids reach new peak

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The top 40 OpenSim grids gained 529 regions since mid-December, to reach a new high of 15,623 regions on January 15 of this month. The monthly growth rate, 3.5 percent, was the second-lowest since we started... 

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Mon, Jan 3 2011
How to pick a virtual platform — revisited

How to pick a virtual platform — revisited

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Virtual environments are changing rapidly, and it’s sometimes hard to keep up with everything that’s going on. Here is a quick round up of the best options for the most common uses of virtual... 

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Wed, Dec 15 2010
OpenSim company wins $10,000 prize

OpenSim company wins $10,000 prize

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Press Release: Novell Announces Winners of First Annual ‘Dister’ Awards Radical Breeze’s ‘Illumination Software Creation Station’ and Anderware’s ‘Hypergrid... 

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Tue, Dec 14 2010
SpotOn3D stress-tests OpenSim in the cloud

SpotOn3D stress-tests OpenSim in the cloud

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SpotOn3D will hold a benchmark test on Wednesday, December 15 to determine the difference in performance of OpenSim version 0.7.1 and OpenSim 0.6.9 when they run in the cloud. Tessa Kinney-Johnson According... 

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Sat, Dec 4 2010
Canvas: New Web viewer a breakthrough

Canvas: New Web viewer a breakthrough

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San Francisco-based Tipodean Technologies will open its Canvas Web-based viewer next week to a select group of beta testers, but Hypergrid Business got a sneak peek this week. A test version of the viewer... 

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Fri, Dec 3 2010
ReactionGrid adds groups, plans upgrade

ReactionGrid adds groups, plans upgrade

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ReactionGrid released a groups module for OpenSim this week and announced plans to upgrade to the next version of OpenSim “early next year.” According to its announcement, ReactionGrid’s... 

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Mon, Nov 29 2010
Web-based viewer released for Second Life, OpenSim

Web-based viewer released for Second Life, OpenSim

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Press Release: Tipodean launches Canvas, a Web-based viewer for Second Life and OpenSim, which is built using Unity 3D Tipodean Technologies is pleased to announce the preview launch of Canvas, a web-based... 

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Wed, Nov 17 2010
OMC, I’z transactions grow on OpenSim

OMC, I’z transactions grow on OpenSim

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The OpenSim economy continued to grow this month, with both the OMC currency and the I’z currency from InWorldz growing in users and transactions. The OMC, a convertible currency from Austrian virtual... 

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Mon, Nov 15 2010
Virtual investors lost 71% on risky SLCapEx

Virtual investors lost 71% on risky SLCapEx

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Investors in virtual companies listed on the Second Life Capital Exchange lost most of their money, according to a new research report. The report, which covered the time period between May 2007 and December... 

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Mon, Nov 15 2010
Another record month for OpenSim

Another record month for OpenSim

OpenSim grid hit a new peak this month, with 13,564 regions on the top 40 grids, a 9 percent increase from last month’s 12,425 regions — a gain of 1,139 regions. Meanwhile, total registered... 

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Thu, Nov 11 2010
Education group to launch grid

Education group to launch grid

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The Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable, a group of educators working in Second Life, is expanding to a new grid on the OpenSim platform. The group — originally called the Second Life Education Roundtable... 

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Tue, Nov 9 2010
Virtual Justice in virtual worlds

Virtual Justice in virtual worlds

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I spent the last few days reading Virtual Justice by Greg Lastowka. Lastowka outlined some legal issues that arise in virtual environments. Who owns what? What rights — if any — do you... 

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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, Nov 9 2010
OpenSim users happy with grids

OpenSim users happy with grids

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The majority of OpenSim grid residents said that their grids were “excellent” overall, with community and support getting the highest marks across the grids. Technology and content of the grids... 

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Tue, Nov 9 2010
How many avatars can OpenSim handle?

How many avatars can OpenSim handle?

Exactly how many people can a region in OpenSim support? How many people could meet for business meetings or presentations in an OpenSim region? Intel has a tool that allows more than 1,000 avatars on... 

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Wed, Nov 3 2010
Survey: 84% of OpenSim users would recommend platform

Survey: 84% of OpenSim users would recommend platform

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OpenSim users overwhelmingly said that they would “absolutely” recommend the platform to others. Out of 114 people who responded to our survey this week and answered this question, 84 percent... 

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Tue, Nov 2 2010
Bargain region hosting: What you get for $9.90

Bargain region hosting: What you get for $9.90

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OpenSim hosting company New Voice offers full OpenSim regions for just $9.90 per month. So what do you actually get for this amount of money? A region in Second Life, after all, costs $300 —... 

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Mon, Nov 1 2010
What is OpenSim standard time?

What is OpenSim standard time?

(Image by Leo Reynolds, via Flickr.) Here at Hypergrid Business, we’re in the process of launching a virtual events directory (now that the vendor directory is up and working). And the question comes... 

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Fri, Oct 29 2010
Practical guide to virtual education

Practical guide to virtual education

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A new book by Coventry University professor Maggi Savin-Baden offers practical advice to educators interested in virtual worlds. A Practical Guide to Using Second Life in Higher Education. According to... 

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Fri, Oct 29 2010
Growing your sim-com business

Growing your sim-com business

Now that we’ve got our new vendor directory ready to launch (see the test page here and give us your opinions!) we’re taking a second look at what exactly customers are looking for when they’re... 

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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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Tue, Oct 26 2010
Fashion Research Institute brings premium content to Science Sim

Fashion Research Institute brings premium content to Science Sim

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Press Release: Fashion Research Institute Collaborates with Intel Labs to Bring Premium Digital Content to Science Sim New York, NY – “Content is King” has long been the mantra of the gurus... 

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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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Sat, Oct 16 2010
UK to teach citizenship with OpenSim

UK to teach citizenship with OpenSim

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Teesside University is piloting a quarter million pound (US $400,000) citizenship education project in OpenSim this year. The project, which will eventually involve as many as 900 high students in the... 

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Fri, Oct 15 2010
Initiative: free land for educators migrating from Second Life

Initiative: free land for educators migrating from Second Life

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The Immersive Education Initiative, a Boston-based non-profit coalition, announced today that it will offer free land, and free migration services, for educators working in Second Life’s Teen Grid. Aaron... 

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Fri, Oct 15 2010
OpenSim regions hit all-time high, growth rate accelerates

OpenSim regions hit all-time high, growth rate accelerates

The world’s forty largest public OpenSim grids gained 1,605  regions over the past 30 days, and added 10,530 new users. This brings the total region counts on these grids to 12,425, an 15 percent... 

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Thu, Oct 14 2010
OpenSim rolls out mesh in one day

OpenSim rolls out mesh in one day

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Just a day after Second Life launched its mesh beta, OpenSim already has experimental mesh in the latest test release, and people have begun trying the technology out on OSGrid’s experimental Danger... 

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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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