2017 VW: HG: NEW: HGProjects. Opensim, Hypergrid: Summary

Opensim: Summary 
Updated 3/21/2017
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• Find resources on the Hypergrid. For HG Newcomers
• Hypergrid-related articles in this blog
• Modular programming, or how to fork without forking everything. HGProjects
• OSHG development: OSHG Committee begins to form, New Media Arts plans
• New Media Arts plans to support the development of OpenSimulator/Hypergrid
• Why/how would Second Lifers expand to hypergrid? A hypertext presentation for virtual worlds
• Questions about Hypergrid or OpenSim? Live people resources
• Virtual worlds: Where is everybody? How do I find people?
• Bringing new people into virtual worlds? Bring them in via Cookie II or use the NMA method on your own site
• How are the HGProjects going? Summary
• Hello world! I'm Newbie Tubie, and I'm here to rescue you. From the flat world, that is. HGProjects
• NMA low tech entry path for starting in Hypergrid
• Interested in virtual worlds? Don't start there. Start with people. Metaverse communities
• What are: Hypergrid? OpenSim? Virtual worlds?
• Beginner help
• The HGProjects revealed!
• How to search this blog for what interests you
• Viewer: Firestorm by far most popular on hypergrid
• General help:  The Second Lifer's guide to Hypergrid. Summary
• Travel 
• Travelling with Firestorm. Local, nearby, ingrid, Hypergrid, summary
• Destinations and places
• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid. BeatThis list
• Intergrid transport
• People and communities
• Communities of the virtual worlds on Google+
• Promotion
• Products, services, and markets 
• Kitely Market. One stop shopping for the virtual worlds
• Resources and News

Beginner help

The help given here is only what you need to know to get started.  There are other ways to do things.  You may try them out  later and find that you prefer them.   

Opensim:  OpenSimulator is an open-source server platform for hosting virtual worlds. It is compatible with the client for Second Life and can host alternative worlds with differing feature sets with multiple protocols

Hypergrid:  The hypergrid is an extension to Opensim that allows you to link your Opensim grid to other Opensim grids on the internet and supports seamless agent transfers among those grids. 

Virtual world:  A virtual world or massively multiplayer online world (MMOW) is a computer-based simulated environment.  The term has become largely synonymous with interactive 3D virtual environments, where the users take the form of avatars visible to others.

• HG Welcome Center needs freebie donations. HGProject
• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Beginner instructions for virtual worlds, another example
• The Second Lifer's guide to Hypergrid. Summary
• The BeatThis list for Hypergrid. Current status.
• The virtual lands of the Opensim community, a beginner's guide
• Opensim Prmer: Hypergrid, OAR, IAR, SOAS, Kitely, Inworlds, Markets
• What is OpenSim?
• HOW TO HYPERGRID
• Grid welcome centers on the Hypergrid, examples and summary. For the HGProject
• Virtual worlds welcome on the web. Bypass the grid entry. 

What you need to know first

• A collection of hypergrid information for newcomers and those coming in from closed virtual worlds. (Firestorm)
• FIRESTORM: Logging on to Kitely or another grid
• Walk: Press the arrow keys, see what happens
• Fly:  Press and hold page up. 
• Zoom and roam the camera:  Press and hold Alt, press and hold left mouse key, move mouse or scroll wheel.   
• Use a HG address:  Paste into world map next to Find, click Find when found. 
• World map is Ctrl+m
• How can I find sandboxes and freebies in the HG worlds?
• Metaverse 101 Info & Tutorials for getting started in Opensim
• Promoting the Hypergrid with Social Media. HGProjects
• HG Welcome Center needs freebie donations. HGProject
• Money on the hypergrid is not that simple
• Money on the HG, followup: Gloebits
• Going places in the metaverse:  
  

  ClickNWalk, Dble-click TP should be default 

Beginner's building

• Basic Building in Virtual Worlds, by Linda Kellie
• Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
• Beginer's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game, Part 2

Promote the HG

• Viewer in Browser (VIB): Imaginary use case: communities
• 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
• Browser-based viewer at last. The Army gets it done! And an alternative coming
• OSHG development committee: Planning for OpenSimulator/Hypergrid development
• 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
• Is it time to think about some kind of HG organization?
• OpenSim Treasure Hunt. Jan 31 to March 1. An HGProject
• Skills analysis for new people in virtual worlds and for the HGProject
• Tips for tour travel on the Hypergrid
• Creative collaborators: The region (4x4). Welcome Devs parcel
• Grid welcome centers on the Hypergrid, examples and summary. For the HGProject
• TanGLe Grid: HG Treasure Hunt. Organization phase. The Hypergrid project.
• 3rd Rock Grid Welcome area. Newcomer welcome
• You got an event you want to promote? Quick check for the Hypergridders
• Hypergriders: Seven things YOU can do to promote the Hypergrid

Travel

• The Roman Revenge. A bit of trivia useful only if it happens to you

• Inventory: ingrid and hypergrid. Firestorm
• Going places in the metaverse
  

  ClickNWalk, Dble-click TP should be default 
• Travelling with Firestorm. Local, nearby, ingrid, Hypergrid, summary
• Your suitcase. Just what you need to travel the hypergrid
• The case of the vanishing suitcase
• Testing HG addresses and address forms. Failure is not forever
• Chic Aeon Explains Hypergrid Travel
• Touring groups on the Hypergrid, operating plans for future growth
• Trial plan for Metaverse Tours

Destinations and places

• Unicode can cause problems in HG addresses and maybe elsewhere
• SingerGirl at the Maritime Club in Osgrid  
• Maritime Club has shows every Sunday starting at 2 pm SLT
• OpenSim Destinations (G+ Community)
• Interactive OpenSim active Grid List for G+ Hypergridders 2015
• Help people get to your Hypergrid place
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
• G+ community: Metaverse Tours
• Opensimworld. Destination guide for the Hypergrid. BeatThis list
• Pirate's Atoll: Hypergrid hub? Travel for the hypergrid generation
• The ideal Hypergrid address form--almost there in Firestorm
• Hypergrid Destinations
• Fallingwater joins Seanchai Library
• Hyperica Directory
• Hypergrid Destinations
• Metaverse Traveller
• HyperGrid, OpenSim, & 3D Web
• IDreamsNet
• OpenSimWorld
• Panthalassa on Kitely, by Kayaker Magic
• KITELY: City Life. Freebies: free retail, residential property
• A Tour of Donnybrook Beach on Kitely

General help

• 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
• Hypergrid education community: Instruction on offer
• First water skiing In Open Simulator (Vehicles)
• Free images and videos you can use anywhere
• A physics engine is not needed in OpenSim--Kayaker Magic
• Hypergrid History
• Thinkerer Utility Kit has utility scripts and objects for starting in HG
• FREE 3D (G+ community about free stuff)
• Where to get content for OpenSim
• OpenSim and the Hypergrid: Wiki  
• Bulletsim: One Prim Mesh Racetrack for a 2048 Opensim Variable Region  
• Vehicles in Opensim. Bulletsim Physics. Region Crossing, flying
• OpenSim’s physical prims can now be up to 64 meters

Intergrid

• Intergrid transport: Move stuff from one grid to another via Firestorm
• How to transfer content from SL to Opensim
• Unicode can cause problems in HG addresses and maybe elsewhere

People and communities

• OSGrid 9th Birthday, Opening Party at Event Plaza OSGrid Opensim 2016 
• Welcome kiosk for community collaboration 0.4
• Virtual worlds: Where is everybody? How do I find people?
• Cookie II bigger, better, beyonder. A 4X4 now, 16 old style sims
• HGprojects organization? Do we have one? Do we need one?
• WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
• Hypergate WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid   
• Crowdfunding OpenSim development. It works.  
• OpenSim Community: Should your grid have a Chamber of Commerce?   
• OSCC, OpenSimulator Community Conference, exhibits (1)  
• OSCC, OpenSimulator Community Conference, exhibits (2)
• Best metaverse communities
• Opensim Virtual
• Cookie II appears on Kitely
• Hobo Reserved Sandbox on Kitely. For the Hobo Sandboxers
• Future Primatives, a Google+ community
• Arcadia Asylum All Around

Grids and features

• Kitely now fills the search panels on the viewer. Events, places, and classifieds benefit
• Virtual world on a browser. Demo now. Coming in Halcyon
• Kitely new welcome center
• Can a new grid get started on the HG now? Comments by Ann Tree Prenyour
• HyperSpace resources--The 300+ Worlds. Binder's worlds. How is your grid?
• Can't we have a Firestorm APP? Apps work with the mass market. HGProjects
• Firestorm needs help to keep compatible with OpenSim. HGProjects
• Mobius Grid. A friendly group of Toons at the welcome area
• New Price Structure for Kitely. A really sweet spot
• Pick-a-grid checklist for the HG: What to consider in a grid for your project
• DigiWorldz lets customers promote their places on its welcome sim
• Virtual world welcome points. Littlefield shows features to consider
• How self-hosting compares to paid hosting
• OPENSIM HOSTING vendors--Maria's list
• Jetbike for Opensim 0.8.x and BulletSim PE
• Public Hypergrid Nodes
• Hyperica
• Physics and vehicles, Bullet and ODE physics engines
• Kitely Welcome Center updated
• 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

World management

• DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks on OS grids. What can we do?
• How to optimize performance in your world
• A simple way to move the landing point from center

Promotions

• HYPEvents, a Hypergrid event directory. For my HG BeatThis List
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• Your Kitely world page is your web presence. Are you getting full use of it?
• Promote your Hypergrid place on the web
• A view of the Kitely April Egg Hunt
• April egg hunt in full swing on Kitely
• Kitely Events Calendar
• Use a Google calendar to promote events in virtual worlds
• April treasure hunt on Kitely open now
• Kitely Community Destination board by Isis Ophelia

Products, services, and markets

Free

• FREE 3D (G+ community about free stuff)
• Linda Kellie's Freebie Mall. Get your wants or get it all. A world of free.
• Linda Kellie Resources: Zadaroo

Cost

• The OARshop and selling sims on the web
• Kitely market on the Hypergrid. Update
• Buying From The Kitely Market Place Over The Hypergrid
• Opensim Creations
Where to get stuff, Maria's list

• Prefab sims (OARs) become a feature of Opensim
• Well-known Designer sells on Kitely Market
• Kitely Market Hypergrid Delivery Is Now Open to All    

Features

• VIB (browser-viewer) imaginary use case: Education
• Interview with Doug Maxwell Re: Browser-Based Viewer for OpenSim
• New UbODE in OpenSim may have solved lots of physics problems
• The BeatThis list for Hypergrid. Current status.
• Why Kitely for blogs and video production? Kitely vs Inworldz vs Second Life
• OpenSim’s physical prims can now be up to 64 meters

Events

• AvatarFEST, the second year. Videos
• Sometimes you have to cancel an event. Sometimes you don't. HGProjects
• How can we handle tips in Opensim? Paypal, Kitely Credits, sell tee shirts
• Tweets stream about OpenSim Conference
• Kitely Events Calendar

Future planning for OpenSim

• Virtual worlds, virtual reality, mixed reality--this means business
• Planning for the future OS/HG. A discussion of HG security.
• Plans for OpenSimulator/Hypergrid: Moses diverges from the OS Core
• New Media Arts plans to support the development of OpenSimulator/Hypergrid

Resources and News

• The hypergrid WIP Show:  How to with NPC, Nara Malone. Storytelling of the future
• Where to get content for OpenSim
• Bright Canopy. Technically good, easy to use. Pricey. So I hear
• The HG BeatThis List. Kitely Market. One stop shopping for the virtual worlds
• Tweets by @MariaKorolov
• Backup: Saving your video production set in Kitely. AMP video notes
• Easiest hypergate script yet (Maria Korolov)
• Hypergrid Business
• Free military sims (OARs) you can download and use: MOSES
• Opensim resources for learning
• Comprehensive list of scripts in the scripting forum
• Grid Hopping – Multi-Grid and Hypergrid Teleport URI Scheme
• Hyperica single destination teleport script

Scripts

• Scripting resources in virtual worlds, LSL and OSSL. Summary
• Free LSL Script Library and Bug Tracking System
• OpenSim scripting resources: OpenSim Scripters (G+), Showcase trail
• Phaze Demesnes
• OSSL adds functions to LSL: threat levels in OSSL control misuse
• LSL Wiki
• LSL Editor Community Edition 
• LSL Portal 
• LSL Tutorial 
• LSL scripts and scripting. Beginner's Summary
• FOXSAN'S 3D TOOLS AND LSL SCRIPT REPOSITORY 
• THE LSL SCRIPT DATABASE & LIBRARY
• Phaze LSL library
LSL scripts and scripting. Beginner's Summary

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