Xenki – Hypergrid Business

Tag Archives: Xenki

Fri, Jan 15 2010

10 predictions for 2010

Also tagged: avatars, browser, Crista Lopes, Diva Distro, education, hypergrid, OpenSim, Second Life

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

Power users holding back Second Life?

Also tagged: education, Forrester Research, Linden Lab, OpenSim, Second Life, virtual meetings

Second Life is being held back by an “elite group” of users, according to Forrester Research, Inc. analyst Tom Grant. There is an ” Iron Law of Oligarchy,” Grant wrote this week....

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Tue, Dec 22 2009

Private viewers, dead-end worlds

Also tagged: GridHop, hypergrid, Meerkat, OpenSim, virtual goods

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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Sun, Aug 30 2009

Race for a Web viewer is on

Also tagged: 3Di, OpenSim, Second Life

A Web-based viewer for OpenSim and Second Life is a Holy Grail for business users: it would make it easier for employees, customers and business partners to access virtual platforms. That would make for...

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Wed, Aug 19 2009

3DXplorer: an enterprise virtual world with Web access

Also tagged: 3dXplorer, Altadyn, OpenSim, Second Life

Companies looking to have a virtual world running behind a firewall now have another option – today, Altadyn Corp. released its 3DXplorer enterprise platform. A web-based version of the product, hosted...

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Fri, Jul 17 2009

OpenSim on the web six months away

Also tagged: hypergrid, Microsoft, open source, OpenSim

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...