OpenSim Grids Growing apace – VLENZ Update, No 180, January 24, 2011

Is SL fading? The ‘Top 40′ OpenSim grids gain 529 regions in month Latest figures from Hypergrid Business The top 40 OpenSim grids gained 529 regions since mid-December, to reach a new high of 15,623 regions on January 15 of this month, according to  Maria Korolov  in her latest article in  Hypergrid Business. The full [...]

NZVWGrid Upgrade – VLENZ Update, No 179, January 24, 2011

NZVWGrid  news Auckland  U Portal ‘upgrades’ OpenSim  hardware Will host 30-50 sims The  “virtual world team” at the University of Auckland will be “productionising” its  Opensim installation – Hypergrid address: akl.nzvwg.org.8002.aotearoa – over the  the next couple of weeks which should see the university’s portal on the New Zealand Virtual World Grid ready to accept [...]

‘Full Perms?’ – VLENZ Update, No 178, January 18, 2011

Virtual World Commerce and transport Second Life: where you can pay through the nose  but never ‘own’ your skin … I have never had a real problem with individual creatives who protect the intellectual property in their product: Just with  those who want to regionalise the real world and the virtual worlds so  they can [...]

OpenSim Worlds– VLENZ Update, No 177, January 09, 2011

OpenSim Grid worlds are spreading But do you want to pay ‘twice’ for your skin? … and  everything else just because you want to ‘travel’ the worlds The Lindens have rightly been concerned about guaranteeing intellectual property creator rights and Second Life’s place in the sun (Let’s lock in the users to a closed world by [...]