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Fri, Jul 9 2010

Grant available for virtual butterfly exhibit

Grant available for virtual butterfly exhibit

Also tagged: education, Fashion Research Institute

The New York-based Fashion Research Institute, Inc. is giving away five copies of its ground-breaking butterfly exhibit to researchers or educators. The exhibit, available in the form of an OpenSim archive...

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Thu, Jun 17 2010

Top OpenSim grids set new growth record

Also tagged: 3rd Rock Grid, Avatar Hangout, Cyberlandia, eceCloud, FrancoGrid, GerGrid, German Grid, Grid4Us, Hidden Realm, Ikincihavatim, KS Grid, Meta7, MetaverseNexus, Metropolis, MyOpenGrid, New World Grid, NeXtLife, NorthGrid, NZVWGrid, ONGENS, Open Neuland, OSGrid, Pirate Grid, PMGrid, Primsims, Pseudospace, ReactionGrid, Role Play Worlds, SimWorld, Southern Fun, SponOn 3D, Tertiary Grid, Triton Grid, Twisted Sky, UFS Grid, virtyou, Wilder Westen, WorldSimTerra, Your Alternative Life

The top 40 OpenSim grids totaled 11,717 regions this month, a respectable 4 percent increase over last month’s 11,240. However, adjusted growth is up a record-high 1,377 regions — an increase...

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Wed, Apr 14 2010

OpenSim grids grow 11% since last month

Also tagged: 3rd Rock Grid, Avatar Hangout, Cyberlandia, DWGrid, Eden Realm, FrancoGrid, German Grid, Giant Grid, Grid4Us, Heritage Key, InWorldz, Jamland, JokaydiaGrid, Land of Vikings, Logicamp, Meta7, Metropolis, My3dWorld, MyOpenGrid, New Zealand Virtual World Grid, ONGENS, Open Neuland, OpenSim, OSGrid, Pseudospace, ReactionGrid, Role Play World, SpotOn 3D, Tertiary Grid, The New World Grid, Tlon, Twisted Sky, Unica Universe, V-Business, Virtual Reality Grid, Virtual University of Edinburgh, virtyou, Wilder Westen, WorldSimTerra, Your Alternative Life

The world’s top 40 OpenSim-based grids gained 1,055 regions over the past month, from 9,533 to 10,588, an increase of more than 11 percent. By comparison, Second Life grew just 1.4 percent during...

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Sun, Mar 14 2010

OpenSim grids grow 10% this month

OpenSim grids grow 10% this month

Also tagged: Cyberlandia, FrancoGrid, German Grid, GiantGrid, MyOpenGrid, New World Grid, OpenSim, OSGrid, ReactionGrid, Virwox, WorldSimTerra

The world’s top 40 OpenSim-based grids gained over 900 regions over the past month, from 8,626 to 9,533, an increase of more than 10 percent. As usual, OSGrid was the single biggest gainer, with...

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Sun, Feb 28 2010

The Maria Awards

The Maria Awards

Also tagged: Adam Frisby, Crista Lopes, Diva Distro, IBM, Intel, Lotus Sametime 3D, OSGrid, ReactionGrid

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

Also tagged: 3rd Rock Grid, Avatar Hangout, Cyberlandia, Eden Realm, FrancoGrid, German Grid, GiantGrid, Grid4Us, InWorldz, Meta7, Metropolis, New World Grid, ONGENS, OpenSim, OSGrid, Pseudospace, ReactionGrid, Role Play Worlds, SpotOn 3D, Twsted Sky, virtyou, WorldSimTerra, Your Alnternative Life

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

Also tagged: 3Di, Diva Distro, GridHop, hypergrid, Meerkat, OpenSim, ReactionGrid, virtual goods, Xenki

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

Also tagged: Adam Frisby, cloud computing, DeepThink, Fashion Research Institute, Open Neuland, OpenSim, prims, Talentraspel, Wilder Weste

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

Also tagged: FrancoGrid, Grid4Us, GridHop, hypergrid, MetaverseInk, MyOpenGrid, OpenSim, OSGrid, ReactionGrid, Second Life

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

Also tagged: avatars, Crista Lopes, Diva Canto, Diva Distro, Fashion Research Institute, hypergrid, Intel, OpenSim, Shenlei Winkler

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

Also tagged: Cyberlandia, Eden Realm, FrancoGrid, Grid4Us, GridHop, hypergrid, MetaverseInk, MyOpenGrid, OpenSim, OSGrid, ReactionGrid

[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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