Maria Korolov with the Oculus Quest 2 headset. I just ordered my Oculus Quest 2 headset this morning — and it already came this evening. Initial impression is that it’s the easiest-to-use headset I’ve tried so far. Very comfortable, very lightweight, and I didn’t even need to charge it up when I took it out …
Oculus Quest 2 setup is super easy. Getting OpenSim on it, not so much Read More »
It’s been ten days since AviTron first reported Gloebit payment problems, and more than a week since Gloebit acknowledged the issue, but Gloebit purchases are continuing to fail across the hypergrid and grid owners complain that they haven’t been able to reach Gloebit CEO Chris Colosi for help. There also haven’t been any additional updates …
With lack of Gloebit support, grids try to fix payment problem on their own Read More »
It’s that time of the year again — time to find out what OpenSim users think of their grids. Don’t worry if your home grid isn’t one of the suggested options — with more than 300 active grids, we can’t list them all, but focused on the ones most active last month. You can still …
After AviTron reported Gloebit payment problems on Saturday, other grids also seem to be having the same issue. Today, Gloebit confirmed that there’s an issue. “It appears that starting Sep. 27, some grids had some notifications of completion of transaction not make it back to the grid,” Gloebit CEO Chris Colosi said in a Facebook …
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AviTron welcome area. (Image by Maria Korolov.) The AviTron grid is reporting an outage in the multi-grid Gloebit payment system. “I have been emailing these guys for two weeks now,” AviTron grid owner Alex Pomposelli told Hypergrid Business. “No response yet.” Alexsandro Pomposelli According to Pomposelli, the problem is that the Gloebit DLL needs …
(Image courtesy Caprica.) Russia-based OpenSim company Caprica is now hosting private grids starting at just $20 a month. The company also runs its own grid, also called Caprica, That grid, which was founded in early 2018, currently has 310 regions and reported 300 active users in the last 30 days. Caprica’s new private grid offer …
To celebrate the completion of my most recent novella, Time of the Meatheads, the first novella in set in the Krim virtual world, Krim Times, is free this weekend. And it’s got a new cover, too. The book made the Amazon category bestseller list when it was released back in 2019, thanks to you guys. …
The folks over at HTC were nice enough to send me the new HTC Vive Focus 3 headset for review. First of all, thank you. It’s a great headset. Second of all, sorry for this review, but I don’t think that anyone should buy this headset. On paper, this headset sounds great. Fantastic image quality. …
HTC Vive Focus 3: Great VR headset. Don’t buy it. Read More »
Every day I get a bunch of emails offering free guest posts for Hypergrid Business. Hey, cool — I love getting free material. And even better yet, many of them are offering to pay me money to run their articles. Excellent! Everyone always accuses me of selling out — this is my chance to finally do …
The Infinite Metaverse Alliance called on OpenSim users to take a survey today. Lisa Laxton “Given the number of new features for users that have evolved in the past two years, we are interested in knowing more about what users want and need,” said CEO Lisa Laxton. The results will help the organization set priorities …
Interested in getting voice, new viewers for OpenSim? Take this survey Read More »
A meeting of the Hypergrid Entrepreneur Group, with Vivox voice, on the old Hyperica grid. According to Unity PR head Ryan Wallace, OpenSim grids can still sign up to get free Vivox voice services — but there might be some technical hurdles to jump through. The current integration with OpenSim was developed a decade ago …
Free Vivox still available to all, needs new plugin Read More »
Just chilling, listening to myself talk, on my private company grid. Vivox, the voice service acquired by Unity two years ago, is discontinuing its free OpenSim service. “As of May 25, 2021, the Free Virtual World Voice service has been deprecated and we will no longer be accepting new program registrations,” the company announced today. …
Two grid owners have successfully enabled Podex for hypergrid visitors to their grids. Discovery Grid owner Rene Vega, also known as Balpien Hammerer in-world, and AviWorlds owner Josh Boam have allowed hypergrid visitors to buy and use Podex-based local currencies while visiting their grids. “Thanks to Josh Boam as well as to Balpien Hammerer from …
Discovery, AviWorlds take Podex to the hypergrid Read More »
A few OpenSim grid owners have contacted me about price updates, and there have been some dramatic drops out there fueled by improved management tools on the part of the grid owners and lower hosting prices by infrastructure providers. That inspired me to review all the grid prices on the public grids. To make it …
$45 a month for a 20,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled AviTron grid. Other region sizes also available: 10,000-prim region: $10 a month 45,000-prim region: $65 a month two-by-two varregion with up to 100,000 prims: $100 a month Full grids are also available, at $650 a month. Region rental page here. Source: Hypergrid Business
