2017 HELP: HGProjects. Opensim, a Primer: Hypergrid, Search, OAR, IAR, SOAS, Kitely, Inworldz, Markets

Opensim, a Primer: Hypergrid, Search, OAR, IAR
Updated 8/19/2017

Terms and concepts you need to know to think about Opensim

• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog
• Questions about Hypergrid or OpenSim? Live people resources
• PROMO: What if there's a world where your imagination is the only limit?
• OpenSim Community: Should your grid have a Chamber of Commerce?
• The Second Lifer's guide to Hypergrid. Summary
• Opensim 
• Opensim hosting providers
• Where to get content for OpenSim
• Hypergrid 
• Sim-on-a-stick., SOAS
• Firestorm for Opensim
• OAR file
• IAR file
• Intergrid Transport
• How to search this blog for what interests you
• Kitely
• Inworldz
• Hypergrid Business
• Market to the hypergrid
• Interview with Doug Maxwell Re: Browser-Based Viewer for OpenSim

Opensim 

OpenSimulator is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols. It also has an optional facility (the Hypergrid) to allow users to visit other OpenSimulator installations across the web from an account on a 'home' OpenSimulator installation.

• Twitter stream about Opensim

Hypergrid 

The hypergrid is an extension to opensim that allows you to link your opensim to other opensim grids on the internet, so you can teleport between different grids as easily as you can teleport between regions -- even make friends, go shopping, and send instant messages.  The hypergrid is effectively supporting the emergence of a Web of virtual worlds.

• Shop smart in OpenSim: Check the freebies, check the prices
• AvatarFEST, the second year. Videos
• Unicode can cause problems in HG addresses and maybe elsewhere
• A collection of hypergrid information for newcomers and those coming in from closed virtual worlds. (Firestorm)
• Bringing new people into virtual worlds? Bring them in via Cookie II or use the NMA method on your own site
• The HGProjects revealed!
• The HG BeatThis List. Kitely Market. One stop shopping for the virtual worlds
• Hypergrid History
• Promoting the Hypergrid with Social Media. HGProjects
• Money on the hypergrid is not that simple
• Money on the HG, followup: Gloebits

Sim-on-a-stick., SOAS

Sim-on-a-stick., SOAS runs on your computer with its own isolated instances of MySQL, Apache, and PHP for Windows.  

A virtual world on your laptop. DreamWorld, wants to be the installer for the rest of us

• A virtual world on your laptop. DreamWorld wants to be the installer for the rest of us
• SOAS Starter
• Video: how to install SOAS
• Maria Korolov recommends New World Studio  for running an OpenSim minigrid.

Some people, especially content creators, use SOAS for private, cost free, and lag-free building.  They then make an OAR file and upload it to Kitely. From there they can put it on the Kitely market and market to the hypergrid.

Varregions 

Varregions are a feature of OpenSimulator that allow multiple 256 x 256 meter regions to be combined in to a single larger region, such that there is no border transition between regions and moving into the various regions will return position co-ordinates greater than 256.   

Firestorm for Opensim

Most 3rd party viewers will probably work for Opensim grids, though you may need a different version.  A good version to start with is: Firestorm for Opensim.  Note that you need a version specifically for Opensim.  Do not try to use the version you may be using in Second Life.  Here is your link to Firestorm Support.  

• FIRESTORM: Logging on to Kitely or another grid

The Firestorm for Opensim version is pre-populated with some of the more commonly used grid addresses.

Explore and travel

• The sneaky glitch of unicode and the mystery of the right HG address that fails
• Exploring the Hypergrid: tours, destinations, addresses, communication
• The Roman Revenge. A bit of trivia useful only if it happens to you

OAR file for Opensim

OpenSimulator archives (OAR)  save the whole region and everything on it (if you own the stuff or have the right permissions), so that you may 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.  An OAR file serves as a back-up or means of transfer to SOAS, or possibly means of transfer to other grids if they allow OAR uploads.  

IAR file format

OpenSimulator Inventory Archives (IARs) are a means by which inventory folders and items can be saved offline to a single file (IAR). This file can be loaded into a different OpenSimulator installation.

HGProjects

• Find resources on the Hypergrid. For HG Newcomers
• VIB (browser-viewer) imaginary use case: Education
• Virtual world on a browser. Demo now. Coming in Halcyon
• HGProjects and the OSHG initiative. A lot of progress. Summary, Fall 2016
• Preliminary objectives for subcommittees. Invited post by Don Smith and Selby Evans. HGProjects
• OpenSimulator Community Conference 2016: Call for proposals
• Modular programming, or how to fork without forking everything. HGProjects
• OSHG development: OSHG Committee begins to form, New Media Arts plans
• Browser-based viewer at last. The Army gets it done! And an alternative coming
• OSHG development committee: Planning for OpenSimulator/Hypergrid development
• Kitely new welcome center
• Why/how would Second Lifers expand to hypergrid? A hypertext presentation for virtual worlds
• Starting in a virtual world need not be a puzzle game. Imaginary grid-starter viewer
• Every grid needs a G+ commuity: G+ communities grow in the Hypergrid
• Planning for HG Welcome Centers, Kitely and elsewhere. Outline/summary
• Hypergridders: Are you getting full use of your G+ profile
• How are the HGProjects going? Summary
• Virtual worlds: Where is everybody? How do I find people?
• HyperSpace resources--The 300+ Worlds. Binder's worlds. How is your grid?
• Firestorm needs help to keep compatible with OpenSim. HGProjects
• HG Welcome Center needs freebie donations. HGProject
• OpenSim Treasure Hunt. Jan 31 to March 1. An HGProject
• The Hypergrid Welcome Center begins operation.  HGProject. BeatThis
• HGProject. The BeatThis list for Hypergrid. Current status
• Skills analysis for new people in virtual worlds and for the HGProject
• The Hypergrid Welcome Center. An element of the HGProject
• HGProject. Should your grid have a Chamber of Commerce?
• Grid welcome centers on the Hypergrid, examples and summary. For the HGProject
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game.
• HGProjects. Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary
• Opensim, a Primer: Hypergrid, Search, OAR, IAR, SOAS, Kitely, Inworldz, Markets

Search

• HYPERICA, directory of Hypergrid destinations
• Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right
• Google search operators
• How can I find sandboxes and freebies in the HG worlds?

Kitely

• Freebie places and sandboxes in Kitely search
• Kitely now fills the search panels on the viewer. Events, places, and classifieds benefit
• The U in Kitely. Freda Frostbite's helpful place for newcomers
• How to Enter Kitely Virtual Worlds
• Kitely Boosts services for business. Traffic reports
• Why Kitely for blogs and video production? Kitely vs Inworldz vs Second Life
• Linda Kellie's Freebie Mall. Get your wants or get it all. A world of free
• Cookie II appears on Kitely
• Kitely, Overview
• 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"

Inworldz

• Inworldz

Hypergrid Business

• AvatarFest celebrates the strength and diversity of the hypergrid user community
• Hypergrid Business is a blog by Maria Korolov.  It is an excellent source of information about business developments in the Hypergrid
• OpenSim Grid Statistics from Hypergrid business (a monthly report).
• InWorldz prospers, 3DMee closes in November
• Where to get content for OpenSim

Market to the hypergrid

• The OARshop and selling sims on the web
• Kitely Market Hypergrid Delivery Is Now Open to All
• Buying From The Kitely Market Place Over The Hypergrid
• Why would content creators think about selling in the Kitely market?
• Kitely Market vs Second Life Marketplace
• OpenSim--Hypergrid store beta

Future planning for OpenSIm

• Planning for the future OS/HG. A discussion of HG security.
• Plans for OpenSimulator/Hypergrid: Moses diverges from the OS Core

Related

• Virtual worlds, virtual reality, mixed reality--this means business
• Can a new grid get started on the HG now? Comments by Ann Tree Prenyour
• DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks on OS grids. What can we do?
• NMA low tech entry path for starting in Hypergrid
• Virtual worlds welcome on the web. Bypass the grid entry. 
• Interview with Doug Maxwell Re: Browser-Based Viewer for OpenSim
• HYPEvents, a Hypergrid event directory. For my HG BeatThis List
• Community HIV/AIDS Resource Exchange (CHARE) Village
• Vehicles: Jetskiing and Hang Gliding on a Megaregion (Varregion)
• Intergrid transport: Move stuff from one grid to another via Firestorm
• An Author's Guide to the Metaverse & How to visit Greyville Colony
• Strawberry Singh: InWorldz: A Fresh Start
• virtualchristine´s Second Life/OpenSim Blog
• Monthly-ish look at SL private sim lossOpenSim Stats for Oct.

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• New Media Arts, Inc
• SUMMARY: Resources for video production 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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