My Daydream View headset and its controller. The headset can be used to play Cardboard games, though the controller won’t work. (Photo by Maria Korolov.) Last night, I wanted to try out the VR Spaceship VR app for Android on my Pixel phone with my Daydream View headset. Unfortunately, VR Spaceship is an older, Cardboard-compatible […]
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(Image by Maria Korolov.) Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business, virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. Plus, they also had other benefits that, combined with the unique features, created a potentially world-changing technology platform. At
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Women in VR. (Image courtesy AltspaceVR AltspaceVR will close its doors next Thursday, August 3, because it ran out of money. “We can’t afford to keep the virtual lights on anymore,” the company said in a note posted last night. I’ve been writing about the company since it released its first closed beta in early
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Xiaomi Play2 VR headset. (Image courtesy Xiaomi.) I got the Xiaomi Play2 VR headset in the mail today, and while it looks a lot like Google’s cutting-edge Daydream View headset, it’s not. It’s just a Cardboard-compatible. It’s not made of cardboard — it’s made of plastic and fabric — but it is compatible with the
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BoboVR Z5. (Image courtesy BoboVR.) The first set of Daydream View clones have hit the market, and I just got one of them in the mail — the BoboVR Z5. Disclosure: I received the BoboVR Z5 free from GeekBuying, where it currently sells for $60. Bottom line: The big pluses are that the field of
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Infringing content distributed earlier this year via stolen OAR files. (Image courtesy Noxluna.) On Tuesday, David Kariuki’s article about a freebie store that distributed content that was “found and collected” on other grids — without any checks that the content was legal — drew some comments from people who defended the practice. Let’s put aside
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Amazon is going all out today with deals on virtual reality products, running the whole gamut of headset options, computers, and accessories. You can visit https://www.raise.com/coupons/amazon to find all the available coupon codes. If you’ve been waiting to get into VR until you see a good deal, this is a good day for you. For
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It’s taken me a while to write this review, because I’ve been out of town and caught up with various other issues. So, my apologies to HelloPro, who sent me this headset more than two months ago. Sorry, guys! HelloPro virtual reality headset in its original package. (Image by Maria Korolov.) Now, I personally don’t
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Today, I reviewed the prices of all 55 grids that I know of that post their prices, and the average has fallen slightly to $19.22.
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I occasionally get emails from people starting new OpenSim grids, and wondering how they’re going to pay for them. Here are the top five ways that OpenSim grids find success. 1. Commercial grids These are the best-known grids, typically because they put the most time and resources into sales and efficient ClickFunnels SEO marketing. And
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Podex terminal on the Virtual Highway grid. (Image courtesy Podex.) Genesis Metaverse, a commercial grid that emerged last fall from the collapse of Avi-Labs, has been having problems with its currency vendor, Podex, and took the dispute public today. For residents, this means that they will now buy and sell their currency directly from
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(Image courtesy marketing expert Rose Freeland.) Today, I got another submission for a free ad that was basically just the grid’s name. And I regularly talk to grid owners who try to tell me that their grid is special because of its community, and to attract residents they offer low-cost land and free user accounts.
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(Image courtesy Hypergrid Safari.) The Google Plus community OpenSim Everything gained 131 new members since last September, bringing it to a total of 506 members. It was the single biggest gainer of the OpenSim-specific communities we follow. However, more people could be visiting the community without becoming official members. OpenSim Virtual remains the largest
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Torben Asp at a live performance. (Image courtesy Avination.) If you’re a fan of Torben Asp — and you probably are, as he’s one of OpenSim’s favorite performers — and you live or visit the US east coast, you might now be able to catch him performing live, in person. “The move to the
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InWorldz announced that as of this month, it will no longer be publishing its region stats or active user numbers, two statistics which have been falling over the past few months. Total registered user numbers and the number of users currently logged in remain on the login screen, however. According to grid founder Beth Reischl
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