OSgrid became the second OpenSim grid to hit 100,000 registered users today. OSgrid is the leading testing and development grids for OpenSim, one of the oldest grids, and the second-largest grid by land area….
OSgrid second grid to hit 100,000 registrations Read More »
OculusVR, the company behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset that was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion this year, will hold a virtual reality conference in September. Oculus Connect will be held on…
Oculus announces fall conference, RakNet acquisition Read More »
The OpenSimulator Community Conference has begun running scalability tests on its grid every Tuesday at noon Pacific time. The hypergrid address is cc.opensimulator.org:8002:Keynote 1. Load testing doesn’t just help the conference organizers. “All related performance improvements are…
OSCC begins load testing, extends proposal deadline Read More »
There’s a number of things to be said about the publicity Linden Lab recently attracted for moving developers towards a next-generation version of Second Life. It’s bad for OpenSim. OpenSim still draws the majority…
Second Life v2 shows ‘product thinking’ at Linden Lab Read More »
The Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for Control VR, a globe-based virtual reality motion control system ended successfully Saturday with $442,227 raised. The company had asked for $250,000. Delivery of the devices is scheduled to begin…
Control VR Kickstarter ends successfully Read More »
I recently contracted with a builder to do some work on the Hyperica hyperport, and created a new provider agreement for the project. At the start of the project, before we had negotiated any terms, there were…
Template for Content Provider Agreement Read More »
I recently contracted with a builder to do some work on the Hyperica hyperport, and created a new provider agreement for the project. At the start of the project, before we had negotiated any terms, there were…
Template for Content Provider Agreement Read More »
InWorldz residents are circulating a petition demanding the removal of a World War II-themed role playing build from the grid. “I cannot support a grid that makes it possible for people to play a…
War breaks out over WWII RP on InWorldz Read More »
UK-based virtual reality consulting firm KZero just released its 25 Brands in Virtual Reality report. It’s the Q3 2014 update to their Q2 report, and adds such brands as the BBC, Bloomberg, and Oakley.
KZero presentation: Big brands in virtual reality Read More »
This past week, Linden Lab announced the start of beta testing of “experience keys,” a new tool for creators that allows them to by-pass some of the scripted permission dialogs. So, for example, if…
Threat levels vs. experiences — how OpenSim’s take is better for small grids Read More »
I’ve recently switched my advertising management platform from AdSpeed to Google’s DoubleClick for Publishers Small Business. It was a big change — I’d been using AdSpeed almost since Hypergrid Business was first launched five…
Selling ads: AdSpeed vs. DFP Read More »
OculusVR announced this week that the first batch of the new, higher-resolution development kits, known as DK2, have left their manufacturing facility and are on their way to customers. “We expect to ship roughly…
Oculus start shipping high-res development kits Read More »
Oliveira Virtual Lands, an OpenSim hosting company known for its OSgrid regions, now allows its customers to save backups of their regions directly to Dropbox. “Oliveira Lands customers may make their backups at our…
Oliveira enables region backups to DropBox Read More »
A little more than two weeks ago, AviWorlds came back from its fifth official grid closing — not counting temporary outages due to technical issues — to announce that they will be running the…
AviWorlds announces a move — to Kitely Read More »
Yesterday, I learned from a post by Daniel Voyager that Second Life gets between 9,000 and 13,000 new signups every single day. But the active user numbers are dropping. Now, Second Life stopped publishing…
18 OpenSim grids doing a better job at retention than Second Life Read More »
