Once more I go deep down troubled waters and remain a bit away from everything interesting… Well, at least the interesting things about Second Life® and OpenSimulator, of course 🙂 In fact, in my spare time — which is pretty much the little time I can afford to spend away […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recently my company has been researching OpenSimulator as a very cheap way to use plenty of temporary sandboxes for some special projects, for which the cost of leasing private islands from Linden Lab are staggering. The typical example, for instance, is to do a large-scale machinima with a scenario that […]