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Painting by Kisma. (Image courtesy Kisma Reidling.) The Hypergrid Hoppers, a club for the explorers of the OpenSim hypergrid, is going to Amerika Monday. That’s a virtual world where the travellers will be able to get a preview of Biennale Amerika Art festival. The trip will begin at the HG Hoppers region of Craft World […]

(Image curtesy OpenSimulator Community Conference.) The eighth annual  OpenSimulator Community Conference will be held virtually on the OpenSimulator Conference Center grid on December 5 and 6, and registration is now open. The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the developer and user community surrounding the OpenSimulator software. “2020 is a year

Eighty bots at the Kitely Welcome Center. (Image courtesy Kitely.) Through the end of November, Kitely is offering eight-by-eight “mega worlds” — similar to the variable-sized regions on other grids — for $100 a month. The mega worlds can support up to 80 simultaneous visitors and up to 150,000 prims on a dedicated Amazon server.

Reborn AviWorlds grid. (Image courtesy Josh Boam.) The AviWorlds grid, formerly owned by Alexandro Pomposelli and now owned by Josh Boam, is down due to a server migration. “We will be back up in a few days,” Boam told Hypergrid Business. “We’re upgrading our asset server to a faster and more robust system.” Josh Boam

(Image courtesy The Great Canadian Grid.) The Great Canadian Grid is back, grid owner Rod MacDougall — also known as Roddie Macchi in-world — told Hypergrid Business. “I  have spent an entire year day and night learning the back end of everything,” he said. Rod MacDougall (Roddie Macchi) Previously, MacDougall used an OpenSim hosting provider

On this day in 2008, Crista Lopes, a  professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, sent an email to the OpenSim developers mailing list. Crista Lopes “I started working on an extension to OpenSim that makes it work in peer-to-peer mode… I’m really excited to say that this is working!” she wrote. The

  £5 (US $6.50) for a 15,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled BritGrid. All regions include Vivox voice, daily OAR backups, and choice of script engines. Multi-grid Gloebit currency also available on request. Region size options: Standard 15,000-prim region: £5 per month Two-by-two variable-sized region: £7.50 per month Three-by-three variable-sized region: £10 per month See the

(Image courtesy Virtual Ville.) After shutting down Virtual Ville on Tuesday, and promising that he was done with running grids and we’d wouldn’t see any more of him, Alex Pomposelli has brought the grid back, with a new pricing structure. The loginURI and hypergrid address — login.virtual-ville.com:8002 — seems to be working, the Virtual Ville

Beach Bums region now on Virtual Ville. (Image by Maria Korolov.) Alex Pomposelli, founder and former owner of AviWorlds, recently launched a new grid — Virtual Ville — after selling AviWorlds to a former partner. He promised that this time it would be different, that he’s learned from his previous mistakes. And there were a

Space VR camera. (Image courtesy Felix & Paul Studios.) A new virtual reality camera was successfully delivered to the International Space Station today. It’s not the first VR camera on the ISS, but this new one will allow the astronauts to film spacewalks in virtual reality. According to NASA, The International Space Station Experience  is

Metastellar, a new online magazine dedicated to speculative fiction, is now accepting submissions of flash fiction stories for paid publication. They’re looking for original, never-before-published fantasy, horror, or sci-fi stories and are absolutely open to publishing stories about virtual reality of virtual worlds. The stories need to be less than 1,000 words in length, and

The Fire and Ice Opensim grid is running an abstract art competition to celebrate hitting several milestones this month. “The theme is abstract art, beyond this, the scope is very open,” grid owner Sara Payne told Hypergrid Business. “Entries can be your own art. Additionally, they can also be an artistic photo you took, which

Gloebitsville in Tangle grid has free shops available. (Image courtesy Tangle grid.) Multi-grid payments provider Gloebit has been experiencing technical difficulties these past few months, resulting in processing details. But the core problem has been fixed, company founder and CEO Christopher Colosi told Hypergrid Business Christopher Colosi “I’m still waiting to hear from more people,”

Virtuality Grid earlier this year. (Image courtesy Virtuality Grid.) Virtuality Grid halted new user registrations in July and will wrap up all operations at the end of this month. Region archive files — OARs — and cash refunds are being distributed now. “Once that is done, all DNS will be shut down,” grid founder Candi