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Vulcanicus exhibit on Craft World. (Image courtesy Reiner Schneeberger.) The Hypergrid Hoppers, a club for the explorers of the OpenSim hypergrid, is going to Vulcanicus Tuesday  to meet the Gods of Second Life. The trip will start at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time on the HG Hoppers region on Craft World on Tuesday, March 23. The

OVH Strausbourg data center on fire March 10. (Image courtesy Feuerwehr Kehl via Wikipedia Commons.) Podex, the second-largest OpenSim payments provider, has suffered a fire at its data center and services are temporarily down, but no user money has been lost. “The Podex system is on OVH servers based in Strasbourg and fire destroyed some

NiteBite Dwagon dancing in Weefolk Township. (Image courtesy Snoots Dwagon.) The Kitely grid, the largest commercial OpenSim grid by land area, now has a tiny community. “It is called Weefolk Township and it’s located on the ‘always-on’ 64-region megaworld of Wellspring,” builder Snoots Dwagon told Hypergrid Business. Always-on regions are a new feature that Kitely

US$5 for a 35,000-prim region on the Enchanted Grid. Local $EG currency. No hypergrid. No varregions. No Gloebit currency support. No Kitely Market deliveries. Add-on water regions are available for $2 per month each. Visit the Enchanted Grid land sales page for full details. Source: Hypergrid Business

US $5 per month for a 20,000 prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Barefoot Dreamers  grid. Region rentals are available to both local residents and hypergrid visitors. Two-by-two and three-by-three variable-sized regions are also available, starting at $5 per month from a 16,000-prim two-by-two region and $10 per month for a 15,000-prim three-by-three region. Extra prim

Sundance in VR. (Image courtesy Sundance via YouTube.) The Sundance Film Festival starts tomorrow, and this year, for the first time, it’s all virtual. Now, Sundance has been featuring cutting-edge content at its New Frontier category for more than 15 years now, and virtual reality has been playing a bigger and bigger part for the

  Freedom City region on the new AviWorlds grid. (Image courtesy Josh Boam.) AviWorlds has completed its migration to the multi-grid, hypergrid-enabled Gloebit virtual currency. “Gloebits have been working well for us,” AviWorlds CEO Josh Boam told Hypergrid Business. “I notice an improvement with transactions. The grid has sold a good handful of Gloebits from

Since it first began offering OpenSim hosting in 2011, Kitely has been known for its on-demand regions. The regions are activated when someone teleports in, and put to sleep when they’re not in use. This allowed the company to leverage Amazon cloud hosting and offer high-performance regions at a very low cost — prices start

The multi-grid Gloebit payments system has been down for more than a day and the Gloebit website says it can’t be reached. Christopher Colosi “I am investigating,” Gloebit CEO Christopher Colosi told Hypergrid Business. “I have been for awhile now but have not located the issue.” The services runs on the Amazon Web Services platform,

(Image courtesy Reiner Schneeberger.) The Hypergrid Hoppers are heading over to Ireland tomorrow, Dec. 15, to meet Santa Claus. Virtually, that is. “The end of the year is coming and we will hop to the place where Santa has one of his main package stations,” Reiner Schneeberger — also known as Art Blue in-world —

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.