A little more than two weeks ago, AviWorlds came back from its fifth official grid closing — not counting temporary outages due to technical issues — to announce that they will be running the…
AviWorlds announces a move — to Kitely Read More »
Yesterday, I learned from a post by Daniel Voyager that Second Life gets between 9,000 and 13,000 new signups every single day. But the active user numbers are dropping. Now, Second Life stopped publishing…
18 OpenSim grids doing a better job at retention than Second Life Read More »
Please do this next time you’re in a freebie store on an OpenSim grid. Look around. See if you can find a sign up anywhere about the provenance of the freebies. Is there a…
Please look for these two things next time you’re in a freebie store Read More »
OpenSim grids are gearing up for the 4th of July and other summer events this coming month. OSgrid holds giant birthday bash OSgrid, the world’s most popular non-profit OpenSim grid, is having its seventh…
Summer events on the OpenSim grids Read More »
I’m a big believer in OpenSim. One reason is that I get to hear about large projects and deployments that use OpenSim that I’m not allowed to talk about. There are organizations out there…
5 reasons people don’t buy from your website Read More »
If there’s anyone out there who can’t get crowd funding for their virtual world project, you no longer have any excuses. A rock simulator just got funded. Okay, it wasn’t much — its…
Rock simulator hits funding goal in one day Read More »
Now that Facebook has bought OculusVR for $2 billion dollars, the pressure is on Google to do something in this space. This week, Google has released its own headset — and it’s made of…
Google builds its own VR headset — out of cardboard Read More »
Firefox is adding native support for virtual reality devices such as the Oculus Rift to its Web browser, developer Vladimir Vukićević said this week in a blog post. “We are adding native support for VR…
Firefox to bring virtual reality to the web Read More »
OculusVR will acquire the Carbon Design, the company behind the Xbox 360 controller, OculusVR announced this week. “The team will officially become a key component of the product engineering group at Oculus, operating from…
Oculus to acquire Carbon Design Group Read More »
There are some great companies working in the OpenSim ecosystem. Unfortunately, many of the customers who would benefit from their services never get to know about them because of a lack of outreach and…
Two ways to decide how much you should spend on marketing Read More »
ANTVR — a Beijing-based, open source alternative to the Oculus Rift, completed a successful Kickstarter campaign this week. ANTVR is a wireless virtual reality headset that comes with a clever transformable controller. Kickstarter prices…
ANTVR completes successful Kickstarter Read More »
Road to VR just had a nice review of the WalkMouse omni directional treadmill from Norway that works a bit like the Virtuix Omni or the Cyberinth Virtualizer except that it has no guardrails — and…
WalkMouse offers motorized omnidirectional treadmill for enterprises Read More »
There are only four days left to get your proposal in for this fall’s OpenSimulator Community Conference. Last year, around 350 people attended the conference, and more than 3,000 watched the 40-plus videos posted online….
4 days left for your conference proposal Read More »
Most virtual reality headsets these days follow one of two paths — they’re either peripherals that plug into a PC or a gaming console, or they’re hollow frames that users drop their smartphones into….
GameFace building virtual reality OS, will support OpenSim Read More »
U.K.-based group Infinite Void is seeking £5,000 — about US $8,500 — for a virtual ride to outer space. The idea is to send a weather balloon with 12 GoPro cameras up to the edge…
Space expert raising funds for virtual space trip Read More »
