It’s going to be a busy month, with Oktoberfest and Halloween parties across the grids. One of the biggest Halloween celebration this year is probably the InWorldz Frightfest, on the InWorldz Event sims which will…
Halloween, Metroberfest, new grids, and more this October Read More »
OSgrid’s files could not be recovered by a simple cloning of the damaged drives as hoped, the grid announced today. Instead, the grid was forced to pay extra for a full recovery — $2,510 extra, to…
OSgrid saves drives, but at a steep price Read More »
One annoying problem I’ve had with hypergate teleport scripts is that some regions have the right threat level settings to run walk-through scripts, while others don’t, and require a different command to activate the…
Hypergate script with built-in threat level check Read More »
Las Vegas-based OpenSim hosting company Zetamex is recovering from a security breach that hit its servers late Sunday night. Hackers attempted to use the Zetamex servers to attack random websites. “All data is safe, and…
Zetamex recovers from breach Read More »
US$35 a month for an unlimited prim region on the invitation-only Zandramas grid. Vivox voice, Z$ currency from Podex. Kitely Market deliveries. No hypergrid.
Mal Burns, Maria Korolov and Tara Yeats discuss a new survey about OpenSim grids, latest hardware developments, and the book “Ready Player One.”
InWorlds Review: OpenSim survey, Ready Player One Read More »
Avatar Social Network has recently passed SL Universe in Alexa traffic rank, making it the leading dedicated platform for avatars to discuss virtual world topics. “Now of course at the moment it may not mean…
Is Avatar Social Network now the most popular? Read More »
Update: The poll is now closed. It’s time again for the OpenSim grid survey, where OpenSim residents can rank their grids and see how they compare to others. If your grid isn’t on the…
Fifth annual OpenSim grid survey Read More »
US$20 for a 20,000-prim region with up to 10 simultaneous visitors, free upgrade to larger region sizes, on the magic-themed Spellscape grid. First six months are half off.
The London-based Spellscape grid, a magic-themed role play world, has donated code for filtered inventory exports. This would enable grid owners to allow their users to save their inventories in the form of IAR files, while still…
Spellscape donates filtered IAR exports Read More »
The European Union is giving away more than 80 million Euro — US $103 million — as part of the FIWARE Accelerator Programme for tech startups using cutting-edge technologies such as realXtend, an early off-shoot of OpenSim. The…
EU offers $103 mil in tech funding; OpenSim web viewer might fit Read More »
OpenSim is a free, open-source platform for creating immersive, 3D virtual worlds. The user interface looks almost exactly like Second Life. The OpenSim software comes in two major parts. The viewers allow you to…
How to install OpenSim Read More »
Psychotherapist Lynne Berrett — also known as Lissena Wisdomseeker — joins Mal, Tara, and Maria this week. Can she cure my addiction to virtual shoes?
InWorld Review: Discussing Canadian grid, AviWorlds and OSgrid outage Read More »
Zetamex is no longer the low-cost hosting leader in OpenSim. As of today, if you are looking for the lowest-host regions in OpenSim, you have to go to Canada — specifically, to The Great…
Lowest-cost regions are now in Canada Read More »
The AviWorlds grid is coming back up — this time with help from Josh Boam, founder of SkyLifeGrid. “I am going to offer him paid servers and unlimited help,” Boam told Hypergrid Business. According…
AviWorlds teams with SkyLifeGrid Read More »
