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New versions of Dayturn viewer released this weekend. The OpenSim-specific Dayturn viewer was updated this weekend with Bakes on Mesh support. According to Dayturn developer and Xmir grid founder Geir Nøklebye, this viewer is a big improvement over previous versions. Geir Nøklebye “It is a significant change for anyone using a mesh avatar because it […]

  AvatarLife grid is a startup grid, no hypergrid, a local AV currency, with a standard region priced at $69 with a $25 setup fee. Prices go up to $99 a month as of January 1, 2020. does not support hypergrid teleports and instead of the multi-grid Gloebit currency it uses the local AV currency.

Fire and Ice  is a hypergrid grid with Vivox voice and Gloebit currency. Region prices start at 2 pounds — US $2.60 for a 2,000-prim region that can be configured as a standard region, a two-by-two, a three-by-three, or a four-by-four varregion. A   15,000 prim region is 4 pounds, or US $5. The largest

Land area went down slightly but active users were up this month, thanks to the OpenSim Community Conference and holiday events. The total number of standard region equivalents on OpenSim’s public grids dropped by just over 1,000, from 74,063 to 73,050. The number of active users went up by 137 from 35,589 to 35,726. Total

OpenSimFest. (Image courtesy Leighton Marjoram.) This year’s OpenSimFest will be held in March and exhibitors, performers, merchants, and volunteers are encouraged to participate. OpenSimFest is a yearly OpenSimulator community event that brings together different parts of the community in one place. “This is our second year of running OpenSimFest and with last year’s success, we

High Fidelity, a virtual world platform from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale. (Image courtesy High Fidelity.) High Fidelity is shutting down its apps, marketplace and virtual currency, shutting down its open source project, and laying off about half its staff, founder Philip Rosedale announced in a post rather misleadingly titled “Updates, and a New Beginning.”

International Space Museum. (Image courtesy Mike Lorrey.) This Friday, the public is invited to tour the International Spaceflight Museum in Kitely. one of the several community social events organized to coincide with this year’s OpenSim Community Conference. ISM Exhibit Building Chair Mike Lorrey will personally lead and narrate a tour of the ISMuseum region in

Winter Market Skating Rink. (Image courtesy Discovery Grid.) Discovery Grid will hold the grand opening of its 2019 Virtual Seattle Winter Market 2019 on Saturday, December 7, 2019. The market will be open until January 7, 2020. The hypergrid address is discoverygrid.net:8002:Seattle. The market’s region coordinates are 503/448/46. Discovery Grid’s Winter Market. (Image courtesy Discovery

The December issue of HyperGrid Zone magazine is out, and packed with profiles of OpenSim artists and creators, as well as Christmas events and destinations. The cover story is about the Nuna Gallery, which is located on 3rd Rock Grid  and is having its grand opening on Dec. 15. To visit via hypergrid teleport, go

AviWorlds Turtle Beach region. (Image by Maria Korolov.) AviWorlds is celebrating a whole year of not closing down. The grid is currently hypergrid-enabled, allowing residents to teleport in and out to other grids, and visitors to teleport in. Residents can also shop on the Kitely Market and get purchases delivered directly to their AviWorlds avatars.“To

Scorpio Christmas region in Neverworld, Christmas, 2017. (Image courtesy Neverworld.) I’m barely able to type this right now. I have a massive turkey hangover. But that’s not stopping me from scouring the web for Black Friday deals. This is probably a bad idea, because my sales resistance is so low, but I just can’t help

Alantori is having a Black Friday sale in its Kitely Market store. Normally, Kitely Market merchants can only put their products on sale 60 days after the end of the previous sale. The goal is to not have products on the site that are “on sale” all the time. This creates a problem for merchants

Shores Estates Haven. (Image courtesy Tangle Grid.) Tangle Grid has long offered free land plots to both local residents and hypergrid visitors, as well as free stores for merchants Now, the grid has expanded the offer. Instead of two free land regions, there are now six, joined together. Leslie Kling “It gives it that community

It may look at first glance that OpenSim numbers went down this month. The total number of region equivalents fell by 8,955 to 72,911, and the number of active users fell by 1,166 to 35,589. But in fact, grids actually gained both land and users. The discrepancy is due to the fact that a couple