Record high active user numbers for OpenSim grids in July – Hypergrid Business
[ad_1] OpenSim’s land area and active users all increased this month as OSgrid came back online and many other grids reported increased land area and user numbers. The public metaverse gained the equivalent of 8,438 standard-sized regions this month, and 1,684 active users for a new total of 153,858 regions and 49,690 actives. That’s the […]
OSgrid is back up — and getting ready for 19th birthday celebration – Hypergrid Business
[ad_1] OSgrid has recovered from its recent month-long outage and is getting ready to celebrate its 19th birthday. The party will run from July 20 to July 26 on the Event Plaza region on OSgrid, hypergrid address hg.osgrid.org:80:event plaza. OSgrid is the oldest public OpenSim grid, a testing ground for OpenSim development, and a grid […]
OpenSim users up, but land area down on OSgrid cleanup – Hypergrid Business
[ad_1] OpenSim’s public grids gained 3,151 active users this month, with 15 grids reporting increases of more than 100 actives. However, land area and registered user numbers were both town. Most of the loss in land area was due to a major cleanup on OSgrid. The grid reported a drop of more than 800,000 standard region […]
Linden Lab quietly opens adult hub in Second Life – Hypergrid Business
[ad_1] Linden Lab opened a new Adult Hub in Second Life in early March 2026, with no official announcement, according to blogger Inara Pey, who first reported on the facility March 7. The only official sign of the Adult Hub is the SecondLife teleport link. Second Life first teased the hub in December 2023, […]
Why I still build with prims in a mesh-driven metaverse – Hypergrid Business
[ad_1] In the late 1990s and early 2010s, virtual worlds were vibrant social spaces where people gathered to build, celebrate, and create communities online. Platforms such as Second Life and several Open Sim-based grids—including InWorldz, Kitely, and OSG. Over time, however, participation in many of these worlds has declined dramatically. For those who built businesses […]
Meta kills its VR metaverse after $84 billion in losses – Hypergrid Business
[ad_1] Update Mar. 19: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said on an Instagram AMA that Meta has reversed its decision. The link to the Instagram post is dead, but he also posted an update on Threads, which is still up. “We’ve decided to retain existing Horizon Worlds in VR for the foreseeable future,” he wrote. “I […]
Rec Room shuts down after decade and 150 million players – Hypergrid Business
[ad_1] (Image courtesy Rec Room.) Rec Room, a Seattle-based social virtual world that raised $294 million and briefly reached a $3.5 billion valuation, will shut down on June 1, 2026, the company announced yesterday. Snap Inc. confirmed the same day that it has acquired select assets from the company. “Despite this popularity, we never quite […]
It Wasn’t About AI After All: Lessons from The Wrong Biennale – Hypergrid Business
[ad_1] Synthetic Dreams Pavilion. (Image courtesy Kimm Starr.) Time really does fly. Six months later, The Wrong Biennale is coming to a close on March 31, 2026. The Wrong Biennale is an international digital art exhibition that takes place both online and in physical galleries and is seen by millions worldwide. The seventh edition, running […]
Meet3D founder returns with AI-powered OpenSim grid – Hypergrid Business
[ad_1] Snapshot from ThinkSim grid. (Image courtesy Fabio Bastos.) From 2010 to 2015, I ran Meet3D — one of the largest OpenSimulator grids in the world, with 309 regions. Educational institutions, businesses, and communities used it for training simulations, virtual events, and live collaboration. It was one of the most active grids outside Second Life, […]
OpenSim builders get new one-prim NPC manager — no scripts, no orphans – Hypergrid Business
[ad_1] (Image courtesy Spax Orion.) OpenSim creators Dirty Helga and Spax Orion released a free NPC management station to the community last week, giving world builders a streamlined way to create, preview, and manage non-player characters from a single in-world object, according to a post by Spax Orion on OpenSimWorld. The IMAGE-NPC Machine is a […]