the other day i mentioned how i thought SL peeps are a different breed from pure OpenSim ones Peyote, Breen, Maria, DreamWalker, Euro, and Bristle all offered up excellent perspectives on this (thank you) none of it is Earth shattering but it helps frame what virtual worlds are (many things to many people which is [...]

as promised last night, here are my experiences with four OpenSim deployments. with OpenSim, you can be hosted or host it yourself. with a hosted option, you can have your own private grid or be part of a community no one answer is right for everybody and that is a wonderful reason for moving from Second [...]

to those i met in Reaction Grid – thank you for enriching my life to Phoebe – you are the only person i have ever given my parasol to – thank you for reminding me of the joy of being a kid =) good luck to the teachers i have met and who have inspired [...]

call me silly, but i have been cleaning up our regions in Reaction Grid this week. it will just all be wiped out on the fourth with probably one command and anyone would see my time as wasted maybe it’s a spiritual thing (do avatars have spirits?) or an ener-getic thing or just a bonkers thing? to [...]

With Second Life’s Teen Grid closing in December, where does that leave the educational use of virtual worlds? Adult education can carry on but K-12 may need to change. Certainly those working with students under 16 will need an alternative. Those working with students 16 and older may also want an alternative rather than be [...]

just a small update – we have been promoting Reaction Grid for 10 months now and think of ourselves as pretty connected well spank me and call me honey! in reading Maria’s OpenSim stats, we (i) saw that Reaction Grid had gone down like 85 sims and no longer was selling individual sims =( RG’s service is [...]

Some available tips and tweaks that may make Second Life Viewer 2.0 or 2.1 easier to use (especially for us old-timers).

a neat thing about OpenSim is that anyone can use it. many people setup their own grid (like Breen who has encouraged me to try again) and there are many grids from all sorts of groups, companies, and universities all this variety leads to some lighthearted and fun events. Second Life used to have this “fun” vibe [...]

often i get all laggy when anyone visits us in Enclave harbour. i chalked it up to OpenSim being alpha. who knows, it could be a number of factors – me, my broadband connection, the moon and the stars. i often crash and then have a hard time getting back to the sim i was [...]

one thing i have learned from being in OpenSim for 8 months now – patience i reboot the server and restart the sims many times per week and clear my cache, but OpenSim is still alpha software and that’s what alpha means – not stable while OpenSim is a great alternative to Second Life, it [...]

ever have lots of “stuff” that you are moving but is a pain to set back up? like all your furnishings in your home? artwork, landscaping, and so on? in Second Life, you can group things together and take them into your inventory as a coalesced object. select all your items and “Take”. unfortunately, this [...]

as you may know, my move from Second Life to OpenSim was more than just going to another world. it was also a shift in what i am doing in virtual worlds that’s an important consideration if you are also looking for additional worlds, or an alternative, to Second Life. with the ability to export [...]

just a build for a classroom space to seat 18. easy access by flying or have fun with the uber tight, nearly-impossible-to-cam spiral ramp (mouselook works well) since Enclave Harbour is all about environmental science (with plenty of earth, physical, and life science sprinkled in) why not have an  ”Organic” classroom? six neutrons, six protons, [...]

A few months ago, I began work on a LSL script to assist in building a path that a scripted object could follow. I already had a script that could move a physical object around a path but didn’t have a way to assist in generating the actual path for OpenSim. I quickly determined that [...]

hmm, we have always used blip.tv but youtube seems fine too (both are pretty compressed looking) it’s the same video, but now you have a choice! =) have fun in-world!