Hypergrid Business

As many of you pointed out in emails to me, Hypergrid Business  has been down since Friday morning. There was an infection on the site, and it took Sucuri, our security service, and DreamHost, our hosting provider, four days to resolve the issue, which included three different rounds of cleaning out infected files. I have […]

CenterWorld region on the Metropolis Grid. Metropolis, one of the oldest non-profit OpenSim grids, and the second most popular grid (after OSgrid) announced that it will be upgrading to the latest version of OpenSim at the end of the month. Read the full information document here. Users will need to pay 5 Euros to transfer

Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son by Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures announced that it’s making a sequel to the hit Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day. But it’s animated. And it’s in virtual reality. Groundhog Day: Life Father Like Son takes place in the same setting, but this time the hero is Phil Connors, Jr., the

The Advanced Imaging Society held its tenth annual awards ceremony this week at  Warner Bros Studios and virtual reality was a major focus of the event. Ready Player One, based in a virtual reality world, took the award for best live action 3D feature and best stereography.   Van Jones and Elijah Allan-Blitz took home

Tangle Grid’s SciFi Expo. (Image courtesy Tangle Grid.) Exhibitors can already start setting up for February’s Sci-Fi Expo on Tangle Grid. The month-long exposition, accessible to hypergrid visitors, officially opens on Tuesday, February 5 and runs through March 5. The hypergrid address is  tanglegrid.net:8002. (Learn how to hypergrid here.) Visitors will be able to get

  InWorldz farewell party, July 27, 2018. (Image courtesy Brooklynn Peretz‎ via Facebook.)   Islandz, the official successor to the InWorldz grid, is shutting down, owner  Beth Reischl announced today on the grid’s Discord channel. Residents will have ten days to wrap up any current projects. Reischl, who is  also known as Elenia  Llewellyn  

(Image courtesy Reiner Schneeberger.) There’s a lot of OpenSim stuff out there. Last year, for example, there were 380 different grids for the public to explore, and an unknown number of personal, business, and educational grids that didn’t make the Hypergrid Business lists but were open to visitors. It’s hard enough for long-time OpenSim users

My first piece of fiction, Krim Times, is up, under the pen name “Terry Anders.” You can read it free here, or get it on Amazon here  (affiliate link). It’s set in a virtual world, about a hundred and fifty years in the future, by which time we’ll be literally able to live online. This

  Kitely Welcome Center central landing area. (Snapshot by Maria Korolov.) Kitely rolled out their new private grid service yesterday, and there’s a lot of information there to take in all at once. It’s not a full separate OpenSim  grid, like you’d get from DigiWorldz or Dreamland Metaverse. Instead, it seems more like something halfway

Kitely   is now offering private grids for organizations, the company announced today. (Image courtesy Kitely.) For more information, check out this Kitely support thread. There are a lot of questions about how this will work. I will be posting a longer article tomorrow. If you have any comments or questions, add them below, or

1,000 Gloebits (about US $5) per month for a standard region on the hypergrid-enabled AnonGrid. Free land and varregions also available. Free land includes 1/16 region residential parcels, as well as shops in the Wildwood Mall region. There are also free private and public properties available for projects and organizations. Land can be claimed through

A group that claims to be affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivist collective announced the launch of a new OpenSim grid on Saturday. “Anonymous began to a great degree in a virtual world called SecondLife,” the grid said in a message  on its website. “We hope to bring back this foundational platform with an open source

US $8 per month for a  private server, recommended for up to four 100,000-prim regions and up to 15 simultaneous visitors, on the MyLife grid. No hypergrid, no voice, Gloebit currency. Other server sizes also available: $10 per month for a server recommended for up to eight regions and 25 simultaneous visitors. $22 per month

More than 300  responses came in for  this year’s Eighth Annual OpenSim Grid Survey, and Sacrarium received the highest overall scores, followed by  Virtual Brasil,  Utopia Skye,  Kitely,  Tranquility Grid,  DigiWorldz,  Discovery Grid,  OSgrid and DreamNation, in that order. Overall scores of the 10 grids that had the most responses. (Hypergrid Business data.) Between them,

Mal Burns and Mellanie Thielker at OSCC18. The 2018 OpenSim Community Conference. started off with a bang this morning with an announcement of a new virtual reality viewer for OpenSim. Melanie Thielker OpenSimulator core developer Melanie Thielker — also known as Melanie Milland in-world — announced that she is releasing her virtual reality OpenSim viewer