Hypergrid Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Virtual Worlds Grid lost the most regions this month at 365 followed by Insight Concepts which lost 119 regions and Encitra Home Grid which lost 90 regions and Dorena’s World closing the fifth spot at 67. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve been doing the stats report every month — without a break — since mid-2009. Plus, Hypergrid Business is indexed by Google News — we had to go through a whole approval process. I want to be able to create my own virtual world. When virtual reality finally came along, I was super excited.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

The next largest gainer was Atek Grid with 677 new regions, Virtual Worlds Grid with 647, and OSgrid with 519. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. The following two grids were added to our database this month: Abel’s Virtual World and Tranquility.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Hypergrid Chamber of Commerce is proposing a Virtual Worlds Fair.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Virtual Worlds Grid : 4,453 regions. Alife Virtual : 588 regions.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Everyone has Google. They can just Google the topic themselves. Google released guidance this Wednesday , in fact, about how they decide whether AI-generated content — or any content, for the matter — will now be ranked by their search engines. Did your experience in virtual worlds inspire you in some way?

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 15, 2018

The greatest gainer of land this month was GreekLife grid with 1,035 new regions followed by OSgrid with 824 regions, Virtual Worlds Grid with an additional 533 regions. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Furry World : 1,104 regions. PMGrid : 571 regions.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 16, 2018

The largest gainer in land mass in the last month was OSGrid whose land increased by 412 standard equivalent regions, followed by HGLuv with 65 more and Adreans-World with 32 additional regions. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Craft World : 193 regions.

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Virtual World Data Software Survey 73

Hypergrid Business

MAY 17, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Alife Virtual : 598 regions. Open Virtual Worlds : 315 regions.

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Virtual World Data Ireland Survey 68

Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Grids that have been suspended for more than two months will be marked as closed.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Alife Virtual : 590 regions. Open Virtual Worlds : 320 regions.

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Virtual World Data Texas Survey 65

Hypergrid Business

MARCH 17, 2017

The Public World also suffered some server issues, resulting in a drop of more than 400 actives on that grid alone. And the number of regions went down by 839 standard region equivalents, as Virtual Worlds Grid turned off the less-used servers to allow for a greater than usual load on its welcome regions.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Zoom is good enough for most virtual meetings. The learning curve for virtual world browsers is too high for casual users. But it doesn’t make up for all the shortcomings of either desktop-based virtual worlds, or 3D virtual environments, for most non-gaming applications. Data via Grid Survey.)

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

In addition to designing a number of iconic products with Logitech, their most recognizable single product design might be the original Nest in 2009. They’ve also worked with companies like Dell, Alienware, Google, HP, and Samsung. This speeds-up the learning curve in the VR software and helps get into the flow of design quicker.” .

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

At Hypergrid Business , we’ve been covering OpenSim and other desktop-based virtual environments since 2009, and began covering virtual reality extensively in 2014. Just think of how much change we’ve seen in the past couple of decades — the Internet, the World Wide Web, smartphones.

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Technology Virtual World How To Industry 125

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Lessons Learned From A Thousand Virtual Worlds. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. Stefan Walker (Google), Luca Prasso (Google).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. Small companies like Google, and eventually people like Facebook and others, and create this revolution. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds. And we took that company to $250-million between 2008, 2009 to 2011.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. Small companies like Google, and eventually people like Facebook and others, and create this revolution. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds. And we took that company to $250-million between 2008, 2009 to 2011.

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AR Machine Learning Government Virtual Reality 78

Hypergrid Business

JULY 16, 2017

Kitely was in second place with 1,520 new registered users followed by InWorldz with 1,048, Emilac with 801 and Virtual Brasil with 412. Adreans-World grid lost 218 registered users. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Virtual Worlds Grid : 935 regions.

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Machine Learning Virtual World Data Education 89

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. Small companies like Google, and eventually people like Facebook and others, and create this revolution. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds. And we took that company to $250-million between 2008, 2009 to 2011.

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AR Machine Learning Government Virtual Reality 60

Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 17, 2016

For those who are new readers, OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Virtual Worlds Grid : 1,066 regions.

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Virtual World Conference Data Survey 60

TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

She has shape-shifted across media types, spending time in everything from AOL and chat rooms, to MMOs, virtual worlds and social media platforms. Second Life opened this up incredibly, taking things away from the closed worlds of video games. This often took the shape of default characters?—?letting I want to explore that.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. Alan: Being able to create a digital version of the real world. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. Back in 2008, 2009.

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AR Augmented Reality Industry Machine Learning 78

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. Alan: Being able to create a digital version of the real world. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. Back in 2008, 2009.

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AR Augmented Reality Industry Machine Learning 60

Hypergrid Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Both Second Life region counts and user concurrency numbers have been steadily going down, and last week Wagner Au estimated that the company’s revenues have fallen in half since 2009 , from $100 million to $50 million. That could be an email mailing list, a Facebook group, or a Google Plus page. InWorldz’ falling numbers.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 29, 2017

The ability to easily design a virtual world — and have other people visit it — seemed amazing. Then, back in 2009, I had just returned from China and was lamenting the fact that travel budgets were being cut everywhere due to the stupid financial crisis and I wasn’t being sent out to attend conferences anymore.

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