by Jon Brouchoud | Apr 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Second Life is a killer app for Oculus VR. Now, before you skip ahead to post a comment about how SL has been overrun by furries and 14 year olds, take a moment to scroll through these screenshots, and watch some of the machinima below.
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
These sim packages are designed to provide flexible, modern environments for learning, enterprise, and private development in OpenSim and are now available at a significantly discounted rate. Each full sim package is just $60 USD, and is delivered as an opensim OAR...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
H-Town, the OpenSim neighborhood previously posted HERE, is now open to the public! This is a most impressive application of building real-world architecture using the OpenSim platform, and by far the largest expanse of contiguous virtual land dedicated to it,...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
I first read about the concept of mixing Unity and OpenSim through a post by epredator on his Life at the Feeding Edge, and always wondered if such an experiment would ever become reality. Rezzable recently announced that they had successfully achieved a prototype of...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
The barrier to entry just keeps getting lower for for architects, engineers and construction professionals to further employ MMO (massively, multi-player, online) environments in design collaboration, education, visualization and architectural discourse. Here are a few bits and pieces of the puzzle that I’m keeping an eye on.
by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Check out Adam Frisby’s post about OpenSim achieving 85 avatars on a single OpenSim this week, and their hopes of reaching 100 or even 150. According to the post, these major performance and stability enhancements are largely due to 3 fixes – 1.)...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you’re curious about how the OpenSim platform might be useful in your art, architecture or design related projects, we will be holding an informal open house this Wednesday, September 23rd at 9am PDT on the Architecture Islands grid. Here is the event’s...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Sims at a fraction of the cost? No prim size limits? Saving and restoring entire sims to and from my own hard drive? OpenSim is where its at, and its improving at a pretty impressive rate. With the likes of IBM, Intel, Microsoft and even Linden Lab itself making contributions toward strengthening OpenSim, it certainly seems to have a chance at making it to prime time if it hasn’t already. We’re now offering 6 sims at $150/month on the OpenSim Architecture Grid…