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Kay McLennan, OpenSim educator and professor at the Tulane School of Professional Advancement is holding a survey to determine how educators are changing their use of virtual worlds and virtual reality during this coming academic year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kay McLennan “As evidenced by educator participation in annual Open Simulator Community Conferences, […]

Discover.film’s virtual cinema. (Image courtesy Discover.film.) Discover.film will be holding its short film festival in virtual reality this Friday on the VRChat virtual reality meeting platform. The event will start at 8 p.m. British time — or noon Pacific, following by a second screening at 1 a.m. British time, or 5 p.m. Pacific. The screenings

US $9 (8 Euros) for a 20,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Little Breath grid. Full land rental details here.     Source: Hypergrid Business

Summer Pop-up Market on Discovery Grid. (Image courtesy Discovery Grid.) A new pop-up marketing will open on June 19 and run through July 5 at the Seattle Space Needle. The virtual Seattle Space Needle, the one on the Seattle region of the Discovery grid. “The previous pop-up markets were   highly successful with over 200

15 Euros (about US $17) for a 15,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Swiss Grid. Gloebit payment, voice, and varregions. If a user has more than one region then each additional region is just 5 Euros (US $5.60) per month. To turn a region into a varregion, there’s an extra fee of 3 Euros to make

(Image courtesy Reiner Schneeberger.) Today, Craft World will hold a grand opening of a group exhibition of eight artists. The exhibition will last for three weeks, and the artists are Eva Kraai, Paola, Bianchi Mills, William Nessuno, Tosha Tyran, Adriana Midni and WizardOz Chrome, and Art Blue — also known as Reiner Schneeberger in-world. (Image

Gloebitsville in Tangle Grid has free shops available. (Image courtesy Tangle Grid.) The multi-grid Gloebit payment system has recovered from a major outage it suffered earlier this month, company CEO Christopher Colosi told Hypergrid Business. The platform is based on Amazon’s Web Services cloud hosting platform. Christopher Colosi “It seems like our AWS servers got

Oculus Quest (Image courtesy Oculus VR.) The Oculus Quest headset has been sold out almost everywhere since the start of the epidemic, but it’s available now from the company itself., for $400 for the 64GB version and $500 for the 128GB version. Once it runs out, however, there are still second-hand versions available on Amazon

A performance at the 2020 No Borders music festival. (Image courtesy 3rd Rock Grid.) 3rd Rock Grid‘s third annual  No Borders Festival of music and arts at the end of March raised 1,996 Euros — about US $2,160 — which the grid donated to Doctors Without Borders, an international non-profit that helps with emergencies around

A default “Ruth” avatar on an empty region. Due to unprecedented demand resulting from the COVID-19 epidemic, Linden Lab is having trouble getting enough server capacity to create new Second Life regions. “Our current server systems cannot accommodate unlimited growth without adversely impacting that stability and performance,” the company said in an announcement Thursday. “This

Kitely Market. OpenSim users have purchased more than a quarter million dollars worth of virtual goods on the Kitely Market since its inception in 2013, Kitely announced yesterday. In that time, it has grown from fewer than 1,000 listed items to nearly 34,000. When it launched, it only delivered to one grid, Kitely itself, but

(Image courtesy HTC Vive.) Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. But I’m still not sure that it’s worth spending several hundred dollars, or more, per

(Image courtesy Magic Leap.) Extended reality company Magic Leap announced this week that it is abandoning the consumer market and laying off employees. According to Bloomberg, 1,000 employees are being let go, or about half the company’s workforce. The company had raised about $2.6 billion from investors for its mixed reality headset, promising a light-weight,

Virtual Ville This should come as no surprise to regular readers of Hypergrid Business, but Alexandro Pomposelli is back at it again. Less than a month ago, he said, “This is it,” when he shut down his AviWorlds grid. Four days ago, after selling it to former partner Josh Boam, he promised that he wouldn’t