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Wolf Territories gets better hosting, now top grid by size and users

A monthly social event on Wolf Territories Grid. (Image courtesy Wolf Territories Grid.) In a move that promises a faster, smoother, and more responsive virtual world experience, Wolf Territories Grid has migrated to a new server cluster at a data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The upgrade is expected to significantly enhance performance and reliability for

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My keynote talk about ChatGPT

So, I’m back home — after flying to Lima, Peru for an AI conference last week. I was there to give a keynote speech about AI. The whole flight over I was worried that Nvidia or OpenAI or someone else would announce news of such major importance that I’d have to scrap my entire presentation

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OpenSim area continues growth streak

The total land area on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equivalent of 132,969  standard regions this month, an all-time high — and the third month in a row that OpenSim land area has broken records. There was an increase of 1,089 standard region equivalents compared to last month. Meanwhile, the total number of registered users

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AI to transform world-building

A starting frame for a platform video game generated by Genie. (Image courtesy Google.) I cover artificial intelligence at my day job. Every week, I talk to the experts building the technology and deploying it, and to companies already finding value in it. The AI-powered transformation is bigger than anything I’ve ever covered before, in

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Do you want to buy an HP Reverb G2 VR headset? I’m also giving away three free VR headsets.

Hey there, Hypergrid Business readers. It’s the new year, and I’m moving my office and cleaning up, and have a few VR headsets sitting around that I’d like to get rid of. They work, are hardly used, and one is even in its original — UNOPENED — box. If you’re in the western Massachusetts area,

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I’ll be presenting at OSCC tomorrow

Checking out the podium at this year’s conference. (Image by Maria Korolov.) I’m giving two presentations tomorrow at the OpenSim Community Conference. First, I’m giving my usual state of the hypergrid talk at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time. I’ll be doing a roundup of this year’s top news and OpenSim statistics. Then, at 4 p.m. Pacific,

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Eleventh Annual OpenSimulator Community Conference set for December

It’s that time of year again when the open metaverse community comes together to share developments at the annual OpenSimulator Community Conference. The organizers have put out the call for presentation proposals for the 2023 event happening December 9 and 10. This will be the eleventh year for the community-run conference, which spotlights the latest

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NFT crash wipes out nearly all collections, and the metaverse won’t save them

Well, the NFT craze certainly crashed and burned quickly. According to a new report by DappGambl, 95 percent of NFT collections now have zero value. That’s not a typo. Zero. Out of over 73,000 collections, only around 3,500 still have any market cap at all. And only a tiny fraction of those are worth more

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