Hypergrid Business

Tag Grid Marketplace. The Tag Grid Marketplace, in development since 2015 but which the grid began widely promoting this year, has grown at nearly twice the rate of the Kitely Market over the past five months. Tag Grid merchants added 4,058 new item listings, while Kitely merchants added 2,289. However, Kitely is still in the […]

OpenSim land area went up by 3,300 regions this month, with the largest growth recorded on OSgrid, which gained more than 1,500 regions. OSgrid conducted a major clean-up last month, and some of this increase may have been due to region owners reconnecting their regions to the grid. OSgrid also held a fundraiser last month,

Expo Center at the Tangle Grid Halloween Expo. (Image courtesy Tangle Grid.) The sixth annual Tangle Grid Halloween Expo is live now and will run until November 19. The expo is fully accessible to hypergrid visitors at tanglegrid.net:8002:expo isle. (Learn how to hypergrid here.) Visitors will be able to get freebie items, and also purchase

DigiWorldz, one of OpenSim’s most successful commercial grids, went down Tuesday due to a database issue and will be down for a few days while the grid uses the opportunity to do a major update. All in-world events have been canceled, and residents are used to follow the grid on social media on Facebook, Twitter,

(Image courtesy Geralt via Pixabay.) This year, self-driving cars started getting pretty good. Deep fakes video started getting pretty convincing. Our virtual assistants got to the point where they could understand us well enough to do some simple things, like tell us the weather or get driving directions home. When it comes to artificial intelligence,

In July, the team behind the popular Firestorm viewer announced that they planned to split the Second Life and OpenSim versions of their popular virtual world viewer. But after seeing the reaction from the OpenSim community, the developers have reversed their decision. “It made sense to split, but your points changed our minds,” wrote Jessica

$9 a month (8 Euros) for a 15,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Virtualife grid, no setup fee. Variable-sized regions also available. Two-by-two varregion with 30,000 prims is 15 Euros a month. Four-by-four varregion with 60,000 prims is 28 Euros a month. For more information, check the grid’s land purchase page. Source: Hypergrid Business

Rockin’ the Blues on the Discovery Grid has live DJs today, according to this OpenSim News posting. Ever since Google Plus closed down for good earlier this year, the OpenSim community has been scattered across a lot of different platforms — Discord, MeWe, Facebook, and others. So, we used to have more than 2,000 members

Worldwide smartphone forecast by generation. (Image courtesy IDC 2019.) Analysts at the International Data Corporation are predicting smartphone sales to resume growth in 2020, driven by 5G and emerging markets. Sales declined for the past three years straight, as a result of consumers holding on to their phones longer. “To be clear, we don’t think

OpenSim land area went down by more than 10,000 regions this month, registered users fell by more than 28,000, and active users fell by nearly 2,000. So here’s what happened. First, two major Brazilian grids went offline this month, Virtual Brasil and 3D Love. Virtual Brazil reported 212 actives last month, and 3D Love reported

(Image courtesy AviWorlds.) I should just cut-and-paste that headline every month. Okay, so…. AviWorlds has a new website and new sky-high land prices. A 15,000-prim region is now $65, for a grid with almost no users, not much content, and a history of shutting down and losing user content on a regular basis. Meanwhile, the

Hypergrid Business has had exactly two site designs during its ten-year history. From 2009 to 2014, we were using a WordPress theme called The Stars, and were using it even after the company stopped supporting it. Here’s what it looked like when it first launched: Hypergrid Business in early 2009. Then, in 2014, we switched

Steam City at Tangle Grid Steam Expo 2019. (Image courtesy Tangle Grid.) The sixth annual Tangle Grid Steam Expo is live now and will run until October 1. The expo is fully accessible to hypergrid visitors at tanglegrid.net:8002:expo isle.  (Learn how to hypergrid here.) Visitors will be able to get freebie items, and also purchase

There is now a virtual reality enabled version of the Firestorm viewer. Austin Tate, director of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute at the University of Edinburgh, has posted an article about how to install and run it here.  Also known as “AI Austin” in-world, Tate runs the Openvue  and  AiLand  OpenSim grids. It requires that

It only took ten years for me to get my first book done, Krim Times. The second one just took eight months! The final draft is attached, for anyone to download for free, before I post it on Amazon and they make me charge for it. Click cover to download PDF file. Thank you to