2014 HELP: VIRTUAL: Kitely, Overview. A beginner's guide

Kitely, Overview.  
A beginner's guide
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A beginner's guide to the costs and uses of the Kitely virtual world grid.
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Information signs

• How to Enter Kitely Virtual Worlds
• Kitely Welcome Center
• Kitely
• Kitely Market
• Kitely services 

Advantages
How to Enter Kitely Virtual Worlds

• Free account lets you visit all worlds open to the public
• Land costs relatively low.  See: Kitely services. 
• Uses Open simulator, works with Firestorm for Opensim
• Megaregions up to 16 regions in size that behave as one big region
• Max prim dimensions 256 meters
• Easy export of your intact work (OAR files). (cost: about 50 cents)
• Easy import of your intact work (OAR files). (cost: about 50 cents)
• No question of your exclusive intellectual property rights  (TOS)
• CEO Ilan Tochner reads the forums, provides help.
• Hypergrid connection, coming
• Hypermarket*--Market to the hypergrid, coming

Disadvantages

• You have to bring your own traffic
• Best land costs are metered, you pay for visit time
• You pay for your visit time on the free region that comes with the free account

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Hypergrid (TBD)

• Hypergrid lets you  "teleport" other grids 
• Hypergrid directory: IDreamsNet (developing)

Hypermarket  (TBD)

• *I made up that name 
• Hypermarket lets you sell goods to any place on the Hypergrid
• Kitely Market Presented in OpenSim Community Conference 2013
• Content Liberation Front
• To be ready by the end of the year
• About Kitely Market

OAR file
OpenSimulator archives (OAR) save all the necessary asset data so that you can fully restore the terrain, region parcel data, the textures of objects and their inventories when loaded onto a completely different system using a different asset database.
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Use an OAR file

• Backup: Make an OAR and save it on your machine
• Restore: Upload an OAR to Kitely.
• Archive: Save your OAR to disk, DVD, or the cloud.
• Transfer: Upload an OAR to any grid that lets you.
• Duplicate: Make several OAR files for use in several places.
• Work offline: Use Sim-on-a-stick (SOAS) and your OAR on your own machine. 

Megaregions, Details

• Put multiple regions (256 m. x 256 m.) together. 
• 2 x 2,  3 x 3, 4 x 4 regions.
• A megaregion is limited to 100,000 prims and 100  avatars.  
• A 2 x 2 is 500 m. x 500 m. like 4 regular sims in a square.
• Each of the 4 sims could have 25,000 prims.
• That would cost $60 a month.  
• High-Performance Big Worlds
• Advanced Megaregions: Up to 5x Faster

Get your avatar here

• Kitely Welcome Center

Related

• OPENSIM: Kitely Events Calendar
• Kitely: Ilan Tochner, Co-Founder and CEO at Kitely, Part 1, Overview
• Kitely:  Ilan Tochner, Co-Founder and CEO at Kitely Part 2
• Kitely Worlds Showplace. Ilan Tochner, Part 3. "The Profound and the Profane"

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

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