Posts Tagged ‘opensim’
Towards a National OpenSimulator Grid
A bit over a month ago, Andabata Mandelbrot, addressing a Portuguese-speaking audience, launched an interesting challenge: let national OpenSim grid operators join forces together into a single OpenSim grid. Simple as that. It shouldn’t come as a surprise for OpenSim users and operators. After all, isn’t “joining forces” what OpenSim is good at? I mean the ability to HyperGrid across grids, which works more and more flawlessly as time goes…
Hypergrid 1.5: Building the Metaverse, one grid at a time
Linden Lab has announced at the SLCC their continuing support of the open source efforts: the launch of Snowstorm, the project for a new viewer (based on the Snowglobe 2.X codebase) which will get Lindens and third-party volunteer developers working much, much closer together to develop what Philip Linden hopes to be the ultimate viewer, or, as he says these days, “to bring Linden Lab back to the lead in…
Linden Lab turns residential; OpenSim embraces business and education
I’ve just read Prokofy Neva’s very insightful post on the official end of Second Life Enterprise — both as a product, as a division of Linden Lab, and, well, as being part of LL’s vision. Prok was very straightforward and asked the question to Philip directly: has SLE been dropped? The answer was “yes”. So of course we already knew that Linden Lab is turning back to where their core…
Google’s Ultimate Mashup, The End of Web 2.0, and More Metaverse Wannabees
Congratulations to Google — after the announcement of Google Wave, we can finally close the chapter on Web 2.0, or, rather, Web 2.0 Release Candidate. We’ve finally left 2.0 behind to enter the dramatic new age of Web 2.1. You might say to yourself, “oh no, this is just another Facebook clone, why should we share Gwyn’s enthusiasm this time?” Appearances are delusive Read on to understand why this announcement…
OpenSimulator 0.6.3 – The Stability Era?
Granted, I know I’m biased I like bleeding-edge technology, specially when it works; and I’m not trying out OpenSim for “political purposes” of any sort. As I keep repeating to friends, colleagues, and clients — OpenSim is cool, it’s even useful, but forget about “a cheap alternative to Second Life”. All what you save on not paying tier to Linden Lab goes into improving the hardware and bandwidth of your…
OpenSim Physics Engine Beats Linden Lab’s Havok
It’s not “news” but it shows how quickly the rate of progress has been on the OpenSim side of development. This video illustrates how “physical joints”, once the delight of SL, were re-introduced in OpenSim with merely a patch. Linden Lab has long since abandoned joints, well before the upgrade to Havok 4, because they were “too difficult to implement” and not worth the trouble “because so few people used…
OpenSimulator: The Choice for 2010
With Google Lively out of the picture, and an uncertain future for “new” virtual worlds to be launched in a world gone insane with the perceived financial crisis, it’s natural to ask over and over again, if there is an alternative to the Second Life® virtual world platform, what it will be. Since early 2008 I have been very skeptic about “alternatives” to Second Life. In my mind, and specially…
Interconnecting Virtual Worlds
While this post got Slashdotted (Sun’s Wonderland is old news; we all watched the movies, we all were fascinated how cool HTML is rendered in-world, we all were tremendously disappointed on the whole rest of the interface and visual environment, which, frankly, is very weak — no wonder Sun has 1,500 employees registered for Second Life), Linden Lab’s announcement on the interoperation between their grid and IBM’s OpenSim-based grid did not…
Danton’s Tour Of OpenSim Grids
Danton Sideways just posted on his blog the result of his tour of the current offerings of OpenSim-based grids and how he evaluated the “state-of-the-art”. All look promising… in a future to come. He was quite honest about his evaluation, and did his best to be in touch with the OpenSim community and understand their plans for the immediate future. If you’re considering to move over to the OpenSim because…
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