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I’ve come around to AR. OpenSim might not be the way to get there — but Apple might be

I used to think that the path to the metaverse started with screen-based virtual worlds then expanded to virtual reality. At some point, I thought, we’d all be doing everything in the metaverse. The same way that the Internet made information instantly accessible to everyone everywhere, the metaverse would do the same with experiences and …

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OpenAI head calls for slow, careful release of AI — after releasing ChatGPT with no warning

(Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) I can’t tell if he’s just being tone deaf, or trying desperately to do some damage control, but after releasing ChatGPT without any warning on an unsuspecting world late last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now calling for slow and careful release of AI. If you remember, ChatGPT …

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Avalon raises $13m to build metaverse of interoperable worlds

(Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) Florida-based Avalon Corp. has raised $13 million to build a platform for games capable of taking advantage of the metaverse, featuring a universe of interoperable worlds with various intellectual properties, to be built using technologies including blockchain and game engines. According to the press release, Avalon Corp is uniquely …

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AI farms are the new content farms — and are just as bad

In the first decade of this century, unscrupulous website owners noticed that Google had caught on to their tricks — link exchanges, invisible keywords, and meta tags. These tricks were designed to fool search engines into thinking that the websites were better and more useful than they actually were. Spoiler alert: these websites were usually …

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P.E.A.N.U.T.: 6 steps to staying ahead of AI when writing articles

(Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) I get dozens of emails every day from people who want to contribute articles to Hypergrid Business. Sometimes, they even want to pay me to run the articles. The catch? There’s a link somewhere in the article to something the author wants to promote. I’m not, in principle, opposed …

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AI for the little guy

At Hypergrid Business, we’ve been covering OpenSim and other desktop-based virtual environments since 2009, and began covering virtual reality extensively in 2014. Our goal has been to promote an open-source, distributed metaverse, and to help the little guy and gal with navigating that landscape. Specifically, the people running OpenSim-based virtual worlds — because I think …

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OpenSim in review: 14 years of coverage and what’s next

(Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) Hi, everyone. This is me, Maria, your friendly local technology reporter and blog editor. You might know me from such things as my annual OpenSim stats presentations at the OpenSimulator Community Conference, my various attempts to run an OpenSim grid on my home computer, or the fact that, since …

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Hosting4OpenSim

Prices start at $80 per month for a two-region private grid, with $50 setup fee. Includes voice, currency, hypergrid, and a user registration website. Additional regions are available for $12.50 a month for five regions with a $5 setup fee. All plans include full backups and root server access. The higher-priced plans have higher limits …

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Hosting4OpenSim opens for business, already hosting four grids

Hosting4OpenSim, a virtual world hosting company, has announced its grand opening. Founded in December 2022 by three friends from Mexico, the US, and Brazil, the company aims to become the leading provider for OpenSim hosting services. As part of its launch, the company is offering a deal to the next nine customers who respond, with …

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