The world’s first Oculus Rift-equipped virtual reality arcade is scheduled to open in Boston this September, and the company is looking to the public for the funds to buy all the equipment. Nick Lee,…
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In celebration of the fact that Hypergrid Business has had more than 20,000 readers this month — a record high — I’ve been looking at the design of our advertising sales page. I’d been leaving…
5 ways landing pages help you sell better Read More »
In celebration of the fact that Hypergrid Business has had more than 20,000 readers this month — a record high — I’ve been looking at the design of our advertising sales page. I’d been leaving…
5 ways landing pages help you sell better Read More »
The AviWorlds grid has opened, and then closed again, five times. Today, it reopened with a brand-new business model — that of a “private community.” “AviWorlds is now back online as I promised,” said…
AviWorlds reopens for the fifth time as ‘private community’ Read More »
Kitely, the largest commercial OpenSim grid by land area, plans to deliver its Kitely Market content throughout the metaverse — not just to OpenSim grids. “Our goal is to make Kitely Market the main…
Kitely Market to have delivery to High Fidelity Read More »
The popular Diva Distro version of OpenSim is now available with the latest 0.8 update of the software, supporting variable-sized regions and profiles. “Profiles and varregions both work out of the box for new installations of the…
Diva Distro update released Read More »
Linden Lab is working on a new virtual world, Linden Lab has confirmed, but urged users not to panic. “Linden Lab is working on a next generation virtual world that will be in the spirit…
Linden Lab to users: ‘Don’t Panic’ Read More »
Linden Lab is working on a next generation virtual world that would not be backwards compatible with Second Life, said Radegast viewer developer Latif Khalifa in a post at SLUniverse today. According to Khalifa,…
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Over 40,000 orders for the Oculus Rift’s Development Kit 2 have already come in, bringing the total number of headsets sold to over 100,000. The DK2 became available for pre-order in mid-March, and shipping…
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The BBC is experimenting with immersive virtual reality, according to today’s blog post by Cyrus Saihan, head of business development for BBC Future Media. “When the BBC started making the world’s first regular public…
BBC: Is virtual reality the future of TV? Read More »
KZero, a UK-based virtual reality consulting company, released a slide deck today covering different approaches to virtual reality hardware. The full report, Hardware Radar for Virtual Reality: Q2 2014, was released last week.
KZero releases virtual reality hardware report Read More »
About a month ago, a preview of OpenSim 0.8 came out, with rotating regions, Bullet physics, and variable-sized regions. The testing is now complete, and the official, recommended 0.8 release is now out. Get…
OpenSim’s official upgrade is out; supports varregions and Bullet physics Read More »
Update 2: The 200-plus-user drop on Zandramas, is due to a similar problem as at Metropolis, a glitch in the database during the recent upgrades. Update: The 700-user drop on Metropolis is a result of a…
Activity drops on OpenSim grids as they ready for summer Read More »
According to a new study by a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Business, patent trolls cost startups $21.772 billion in lost venture capital funding over the past five years. The study specifically focuses…
Study: Startups lose $21 billion due to patent trolls Read More »
Framestore, the company behind the “Game of Thrones” virtual reality simulations at SXSWi 2014, has opened what it says is the world’s first virtual reality and immersive content studio. “We’re already building a state-of-the-art…
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