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Summer Pop-up Market on Discovery Grid. (Image courtesy Discovery Grid.) A new pop-up marketing will open on June 19 and run through July 5 at the Seattle Space Needle. The virtual Seattle Space Needle, the one on the Seattle region of the Discovery grid. “The previous pop-up markets were   highly successful with over 200 […]

15 Euros (about US $17) for a 15,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Swiss Grid. Gloebit payment, voice, and varregions. If a user has more than one region then each additional region is just 5 Euros (US $5.60) per month. To turn a region into a varregion, there’s an extra fee of 3 Euros to make

(Image courtesy Reiner Schneeberger.) Today, Craft World will hold a grand opening of a group exhibition of eight artists. The exhibition will last for three weeks, and the artists are Eva Kraai, Paola, Bianchi Mills, William Nessuno, Tosha Tyran, Adriana Midni and WizardOz Chrome, and Art Blue — also known as Reiner Schneeberger in-world. (Image

Gloebitsville in Tangle Grid has free shops available. (Image courtesy Tangle Grid.) The multi-grid Gloebit payment system has recovered from a major outage it suffered earlier this month, company CEO Christopher Colosi told Hypergrid Business. The platform is based on Amazon’s Web Services cloud hosting platform. Christopher Colosi “It seems like our AWS servers got

Oculus Quest (Image courtesy Oculus VR.) The Oculus Quest headset has been sold out almost everywhere since the start of the epidemic, but it’s available now from the company itself., for $400 for the 64GB version and $500 for the 128GB version. Once it runs out, however, there are still second-hand versions available on Amazon

A performance at the 2020 No Borders music festival. (Image courtesy 3rd Rock Grid.) 3rd Rock Grid‘s third annual  No Borders Festival of music and arts at the end of March raised 1,996 Euros — about US $2,160 — which the grid donated to Doctors Without Borders, an international non-profit that helps with emergencies around

A default “Ruth” avatar on an empty region. Due to unprecedented demand resulting from the COVID-19 epidemic, Linden Lab is having trouble getting enough server capacity to create new Second Life regions. “Our current server systems cannot accommodate unlimited growth without adversely impacting that stability and performance,” the company said in an announcement Thursday. “This

Kitely Market. OpenSim users have purchased more than a quarter million dollars worth of virtual goods on the Kitely Market since its inception in 2013, Kitely announced yesterday. In that time, it has grown from fewer than 1,000 listed items to nearly 34,000. When it launched, it only delivered to one grid, Kitely itself, but

(Image courtesy HTC Vive.) Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. But I’m still not sure that it’s worth spending several hundred dollars, or more, per

(Image courtesy Magic Leap.) Extended reality company Magic Leap announced this week that it is abandoning the consumer market and laying off employees. According to Bloomberg, 1,000 employees are being let go, or about half the company’s workforce. The company had raised about $2.6 billion from investors for its mixed reality headset, promising a light-weight,

Virtual Ville This should come as no surprise to regular readers of Hypergrid Business, but Alexandro Pomposelli is back at it again. Less than a month ago, he said, “This is it,” when he shut down his AviWorlds grid. Four days ago, after selling it to former partner Josh Boam, he promised that he wouldn’t

Reborn AviWorlds grid. (Image courtesy Josh Boam.) Two weeks after its latest — and supposedly final — shutdown, the much-troubled AviWorlds grid is back up and running again, this time under new management. Josh Boam “I’ve liked AviWorlds ever since I first started working for it,” new owner Josh Boam told Hypergrid Business. “I’m excited

(Image courtesy Virtuality Grid.) The commercial Virtuality Grid has turned off hypergrid access as part of a switch to a different version of OpenSim, grid owners announced Monday in a Facebook post. Grid residents will no longer be able to teleport out to other grids, move content between grids, or send messages to friends on

AviWorlds. (Image courtesy Alexsandro Pomposelli.) The on-and-off AviWorlds grid is off again. By my count, this is the 13th time that the grid has officially closed. And, as usual, grid owner Alex Pomposelli says that this time it’s for good. Alexsandro Pomposelli “This is it,” he told Hypergrid Business. “I’m no longer going to open

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