Tag Archives: ScienceSim

Sun, Feb 28 2010
The Maria Awards

The Maria Awards

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Can’t wait for Oscar night? I know I can’t. So here at Hypergrid Business we’re doling out our own awards. First, a little video introduction. This is a little sailboat trip that OpenSim’s... 

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Sun, Feb 21 2010
OpenSim growth sets new record

OpenSim growth sets new record

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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... 

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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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Sat, Dec 19 2009
Germans set half million prim record

Germans set half million prim record

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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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Sun, Nov 29 2009
Social OpenSim grids gain over 1,000 regions

Social OpenSim grids gain over 1,000 regions

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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... 

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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, Aug 21 2009
August Hypergrid List

August Hypergrid List

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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... 

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