2018 HG: PEOPLE: Exploring the Hypergrid: tours, destinations, addresses, communication.

Exploring the hypergrid:   
tours, destinations, addresses, communication
Updated 9/11/2018

What you need to know to explore the Hypergrid: Community tours, how to find and use addresses, how to communicate with people on other grids

HG Safari Clubhouse

• Hypergrid Safari (G+ Community)
• Metaverse tours

Hypergridding has changed the face of OpenSim. It has opened doors and forged friendships across grids. As much as it's still a work in progress, the possibility to visit 'foreign countries' is one of the most intriguing, challenging, and fascinating aspects of OpenSim. ... OpenSim has blossomed into a cross pollination of creativity, and created in many a sense of belonging to the whole hyperverse, rather than just one niche.-- Pings from the afterlife

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HG addresses: Instructions for Firestorm

HG travel has a bothersome number of fault modes.  To be a happy hypergridder, you need a fair amount of Fault Tolerance.  The good side is that Fault Tolerance is a useful life skill. Here is your chance to practice it. 

Standard forms of HG address

• Put the HG address into your world map, next to Find.  Click Find, TP
• grid.kitely.com:8002 (Takes you to the grid default entry region.)
• At the grid default region you can use the world map to find your destination.
• You can also use a Firestorm hop on the destination grid: 
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/125/356/22
• The Firestorm Hop takes you to the coordinates of your destination
• Unicode can cause problems in HG addresses and maybe elsewhere

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• A second HG address form will work on many grids: 
• grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II
• This address will take you directly to the Cookie II region on Kitely.
• Many regions have walkin TPs or other TPs to let you select your final destination.

Communication on the Hypergrid

• IMs and voice work as you would expect
• Hypergridderers often use email and Skype because they work without a logon. 
• IMs generally work across grids.
• Get people on your friends list if you want to contact them
• Otherwise you will have to go to their grid to find them in search.
• Google+ communities are widely used for communication across the HG
• You can use your Avatar name in Google communities.
• You can read and post on laptops, tablets, and smart phones.

G+ Communities of the Hypergrid

• Fastest-growing G+ communities of 2015
• Google+ communities serve a lot for communication on the HG
• You can use your avatar name on G+
• Communities of the virtual worlds on Google+
• Hypergrid Nights
• The Adult Metaverse
• Friends of Arcadia Asylum
• Hypergrid Destinations

Hypergrid Tours

• Tips for tour travel on the Hypergrid
• Metaverse tours  1 pm Pacific time:
• HG Safari  Wednesday, 12 pm Pacific time: 
• Hypergrid Nights 
• Others?  Add in comments
• Touring groups on the Hypergrid, operating plans for future growth

Destinations

• Boating with Bill Blight on OpenSim.Life
• Shawn's Hypergrid Winter/Christmas list of places
• Hypergrid Destinations
• Hypergrid Safari
• Hypergrid Destinations 
• OpenSim Destinations
• Touring groups on the Hypergrid, operating plans for future growth
• The case of the vanishing suitcase (travel problems)

Events

• Plan for the HG eventorator
• HYPEvents, a Hypergrid event directory. For my HG BeatThis List
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community   
• HYPERGRID EVENT   
• HYPEvents
• Wright Plaza on Osgrid. OS developers office hours, freebies

Google communities of the Hypergrid

• Unicode can cause problems in HG addresses and maybe elsewhere
• Hypergrid Destinations
• Communities of the virtual worlds on Google+
• Hypergrid Nights
• The Adult Metaverse
• Friends of Arcadia Asylum

Choosing a grid to be your home base

• What happens if your grid fails? Can you keep your stuff? Can you keep your friends?

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