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In light of the resurrection of 3rd Rock Grid, the legacy community of 3rd Rock Grid has been fielding a number of questions about their intentions. This piece is written to address those questions and to clarify the group’s status. To firstly recap the grid’s history, Lazuli Pooraka was the
3rd Rock Grid, one of the oldest grids in OpenSim, is up to 26 named regions a month after its original founder, Terry Ford, brought it back online, but still has no date set for its official grand reopening. As of this morning, the grid has 51 registered avatars, with
The noise around AI is getting louder. Last month, an author lost a $2 million book contract due to unsubstantiated allegations that he used AI. Meanwhile, a judge approved $1.5 billion settlement to authors after Anthropic used illegally downloaded books to train its AI. I follow the news about AI
It’s hot here, at least in the northern hemisphere, and I would have expected people to stay inside, in the air conditioning, and be online more. Instead, OpenSim stats were down this month, both for regions and for active users. Even total registered users — a number that usually only
Craft World will host the grand opening of The 9 Goddesses Adventure, a three-region immersive installation by artist Kisma Reidling, at 1 p.m. Pacific time on Friday — 22:00 Central European time — event organizers said in an announcement today. Visitors will gather at the Oracle Lounge region on Craft
One of the best-known names in UFO research is teleporting into the metaverse this week. Preston Dennett, an investigator who has collected firsthand accounts of alien encounters for four decades, will give a live in-world talk on the DigiWorldz grid on Thursday, July 30. The event starts at 2 p.m.
OpenSim’s land area and active users all increased this month as OSgrid came back online and many other grids reported increased land area and user numbers. The public metaverse gained the equivalent of 8,438 standard-sized regions this month, and 1,684 active users for a new total of 153,858 regions and
3rd Rock Grid, one of the oldest grids in OpenSim, is coming back. The grid shut down in 2024, and many of its former residents found new homes on ZetaWorlds. But now its original owner and founder, Terry Ford, is bringing it back to life. Ford began working on the
OSgrid has recovered from its recent month-long outage and is getting ready to celebrate its 19th birthday. The party will run from July 20 to July 26 on the Event Plaza region on OSgrid, hypergrid address hg.osgrid.org:80:event plaza. OSgrid is the oldest public OpenSim grid, a testing ground for OpenSim
OpenSim’s land area and active users both decreased this week, mostly due to an OSgrid outage lasting more than two weeks. Since OSgrid has been online in the past month, it is still included in this stats report. The public metaverse lost the equivalent of 4,116 standard-sized regions this month,
