OpenSimWorld Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• 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

• VRML

  It's quite hard to use that s true, and outdated for today's crowd. But even the "free version" of SL has minimal traffic: https://opensimworld.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• I’m John Egan, CEO of L’Atelier BNP Paribas, a quantitative foresight company using AI to forecast emerging digital markets, jobs and assets, like NFTs and the Metaverse. AMA

  We've seen the enthusiasm for virtual worlds before , it is called Second Life. Businesses and countries were opening virtual embassies because we would all be in 3D. In reality, Secondlife is a small economy , less than $1B, and everything that will be done in the future has already been done there. They tried to spin off a VR economy through project sansar, it did not go anywhere. Their original founder also... Source: about 2 years ago

• Why I fail to see how the Metaverse will succeed

  We have seen everything that is conceptually possible with 3d worlds with second life. Adding the VR dimension is just an incremental step, it's definitely not going to be revolutionary. There is even a free version of second life , opensimulator but it has very little traction, people just don't have the time for it. Source: over 2 years ago

• Metaverse: Next Biggest Opportunity

  There is already a decentralized network that is a clone of SL with thousands of virtual worlds and hundreds of people. But it's not very big. Source: over 2 years ago

• Open Simulator

  The main reasons are: - The viewer is fricking hard to use. I regularly introduce people to Opensim/SL and they can't figure out what the hell is going on. IT doesnt help that SL has a bonkers ancient avatar system, where people wear 2 avatars, use an alpha to hide the first and then wear a second as attachments. Good luck explaining this to people whose computer skills end at scrolling. - People use underpowered... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Open Simulator

  The active regions directory: https://opensimworld.com. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’

  > probably going to resemble some kind of a hybrid between the social platforms that we see today, but an environment where you’re embodied in it Opensimulator (the open source version of second life server) already exists and a few thousands of people re already living in it : https://opensimworld.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago