Email a copy of 'AltspaceVR to close next week' to a friend
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I’d never heard of the platforms listed here before! vTime looks incredible. Very informative article.
Don’t forget Geekzonia!
How can it come down to money ? Servers are cheap enough how much System specs do you need to run the show ?
That’s only true when you’re running commodity software that doesn’t change much. So, for example, if you do straightforward web hosting (or OpenSim grid hosting) using free, off-the-shelf tools that you only have to tweak a little bit, and you don’t have to spend any money on marketing or development.
AltSpaceVR was a cutting-edge platform, running proprietary software, that they were innovating constantly, and they were also doing a lot of outreach to other organizations — plus, they weren’t charging users for the service.
This is a GREAT model for innovative startups, but only when they have enough money to keep going. Most of today’s big tech firms started out this way, using venture capital to pay for innovation, marketing, staff, and other expenses until they hit a break-even point.