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OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse

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Re: OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse

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Post by zhte415 »

I don't understand the website. Is a story repeated several times about 30 Ways To Avoid death supposed to be related? Bible stories that are true? Nebulous add/network links?

Edit: Reloading to 'view in desktop mode' seemed to remove these when switching back to mobile. Turned off for traffic spike?

Re: OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse

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Post by CompuHacker »

The Active Worlds (unrelated software) universe server is still running and the client is still updated. This page has descriptions of some 94 worlds (of several hundred running, of several thousand all time total) that may still be accessible.

http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Category%3AWorl...

Re: OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse

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Post by Animats »

This is not the center of Open Simulator activity. This is just someone's directory of it. With ads. Just as Yahoo was "the directory of the Internet". With ads. I've used Open Simulator and never heard of this site before.

A more useful site is Hypergrid Business.[1] This discusses the various players in the Open Simulator world and what they're doing. There already is a distributed, federated metaverse with no single ownership. It's just not all that big. There are currently 362 grid operators, each with their own servers and users. Some are commercial, some are personal. There's a list.

[1] https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/

Re: OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse

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Post by atribecalledqst »

Animats wrote: post #5

This is not the center of Open Simulator activity. This is just someone's directory of it. With ads. Just as Yahoo was "the directory of the Internet". With ads. I've used Open Simulator and never heard of this site before. A more useful site is Hypergrid Business.[1] This discusses the various players in the Open Simulator world and what they're doing. There already is a distributed, federated metaverse with no sing…

Reading the "What is OpenSim" page on your link and... it sounds like the "Metaverse" already exists. The term is being sold like it's a new thing that doesn't exist yet, but it seems like Facebook is behind the times.

OpenSim seems pretty cool honestly. Similar draw as Second Life, in my mind. Though I downloaded Second Life and only played it a couple times.

Re: OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse

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Post by return1 »

Animats wrote: post #5

This is not the center of Open Simulator activity. This is just someone's directory of it. With ads. Just as Yahoo was "the directory of the Internet". With ads. I've used Open Simulator and never heard of this site before. A more useful site is Hypergrid Business.[1] This discusses the various players in the Open Simulator world and what they're doing. There already is a distributed, federated metaverse with no sing…

That one is Maria Korolov's blog where she blogs more about facebook and oculus these days (with obvious paid guest posts that are ads). Her grid list s manually crafted and very outdated. Curious why you didn't know of opensimworld , it exists for more than 5 years and its teleporters are everywhere. She has even embedded the opensimworld twitter feed in her front page.

Re: OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse

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Post by duskwuff »

atribecalledqst wrote: post #6
Animats wrote: post #5

This is not the center of Open Simulator activity. This is just someone's directory of it. With ads. Just as Yahoo was "the directory of the Internet". With ads. I've used Open Simulator and never heard of this site before. A more useful site is Hypergrid Business.[1] This discusses the various players in the Open Simulator world and what they're doing. There already is a distributed, federated metaverse with no sing…

Reading the "What is OpenSim" page on your link and... it sounds like the "Metaverse" already exists. The term is being sold like it's a new thing that doesn't exist yet, but it seems like Facebook is behind the times. OpenSim seems pretty cool honestly. Similar draw as Second Life, in my mind. Though I downloaded Second Life and only played it a couple times.

> OpenSim seems pretty cool honestly. Similar draw as Second Life, in my mind.

It's the exact same technology as Second Life, just a third-party implementation.

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