OpenSimWorld VS ActiveWorlds

OpenSimWorld mentions (12)

• Silicon Valley doesn't understand the concept of fun

  Old-time TV used to have ads for alcohol, cigarettes. Late-night shows, sometimes risky in europe (i.e. tits) had ads, lots of them. Google + Facebook, like the puritanest of the puritan americans have made that a no-go. It's not clear who decided it first, but basically anything that the local church might frown upon has become unmonetizable and unadvertisable. Of course you won't have fun things when you do... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Hold the postmortem: The metaverse was never alive in the first place

  The metaverse exists for 2 decades in second life. It's where people go to live enter 'the world' and live an alternate life. It doesn't matter if it's not VR because the important thing is to trick the brain.\ There is the open source version of it, OpenSimulator with a few thousands of diehard users having all sorts of fun in their own self-hosted simulators (https://opensimworld.com) . Ironically these worlds... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Creating a new character on OSgrid

  Also, there are numerous free malls throughout the Hypergrid. Go to opensimworld.com and have a look around and read the descriptions for the various shopping areas. Source: over 1 year ago

• Second Life on GitHub

  Opensimulator is the open source project There are thousands and thousands of active regions and thousands of users (https://opensimworld.com/). It's not millions, but it s the best self-hosted virtual world ecosystem. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• there's more than one metaverse

  It's a pity that everyone ignores Opensimulator. It's open source, free, decentralized, self-hosted, and it has thousands of regions and users already. Source: over 1 year ago

ActiveWorlds mentions (0)