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OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse

zhte415 5y ago
I don't understand the website. Is a story repeated several times about 30 Ways To Avoid death supposed to be related? Bible stories that are true? Nebulous add/network links? Edit: Reloading to 'view in desktop mode' seemed to remove these when switching back to mobile. Turned off for traffic spike?
Buge 5y ago
>sex slave nudebeach Umm no
- CodeGlitch 5y ago
  This is what ultimately killed Second Life. In the early days it was being used by businesses, for meetings etc. Then all the people with kinks moved in and now no one takes it seriously. Shame really.
  - 248ff 5y ago
    > This is what ultimately killed Second Life. In the early days it was being used by businesses, for meetings etc. Then all the people with kinks moved in and now no one takes it seriously. You got your order of events reversed. In the early days of SL (2003-2007) it was mostly chaos: kinky content, ponzi-schemes, gambling and scams. It is in this chaos that SL boomed, but sometime close to its peak (2006-2007) the management realized this isn't sustainable (for both legal and business reasons). So, they started to moderate user-content in order to make it more attractive to mainstream-consumers as well as businesses. And we've seen how that went. Very few are interested.
    - CodeGlitch 5y ago
      Ah fair enough. I just remember those early days they were trying to push the Linden dollar as a way for business to monitize the virtual spaces and objects. It seems to have had a bumpy history.
- jongorer 5y ago
  MORE LIKE YES AMIRITE
CompuHacker 5y ago
The Active Worlds (unrelated software) universe server is still running and the client is still updated. This page has descriptions of some 94 worlds (of several hundred running, of several thousand all time total) that may still be accessible. http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Category%3AWorlds http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Category%3AWorl...
- offbynull 5y ago
  I remember this from back in the day. It felt way ahead of it's time. IIRC it originally had a single unified world, which was massive, and you could build stuff in it. It seemed almost endless. You'd just walk and walk and walk and keep seeing new things that people built. Activeworlds is what I think about when people mention the metaverse. A cool concept with great execution that ultimately ends up going nowhere.
  - CompuHacker 5y ago
    Everything you saw is still there in Alphaworld (aw 0n 0e 0a 0), quietly losing textures and sounds that were hosted on the greater Internet (GeoCities, in many cases.)
Animats 5y ago
This is not the center of Open Simulator activity. This is just someone's directory of it. With ads. Just as Yahoo was "the directory of the Internet". With ads. I've used Open Simulator and never heard of this site before. A more useful site is Hypergrid Business.[1] This discusses the various players in the Open Simulator world and what they're doing. There already is a distributed, federated metaverse with no single ownership. It's just not all that big. There are currently 362 grid operators, each with their own servers and users. Some are commercial, some are personal. There's a list. [1] https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/ https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/
- atribecalledqst 5y ago
  Reading the "What is OpenSim" page on your link and... it sounds like the "Metaverse" already exists. The term is being sold like it's a new thing that doesn't exist yet, but it seems like Facebook is behind the times. OpenSim seems pretty cool honestly. Similar draw as Second Life, in my mind. Though I downloaded Second Life and only played it a couple times.
  - duskwuff 5y ago
    > OpenSim seems pretty cool honestly. Similar draw as Second Life, in my mind. It's the exact same technology as Second Life, just a third-party implementation.
  - ehnto 5y ago
    These are ideas that have existed in pop culture for decades, and had a bunch of attempts at making it happen. It was surreal watching Zuckerberg talk about Horizon Home because it felt like he was projecting a Big Tech veneer over a hobbyists domain. People have been messing with this stuff in VR and earlier with virtual 3d desktops since the 90s, and possibly earlier that I am just not aware of. It felt a bit like Elon Musk doing a keynote on a cool model RC plane he had built.
    - jazzyjackson 5y ago
      re: earlier than the 90s, I grabbed this link [0] from another metaverse thread, showing some 80s VR research (Judging by hardware, Sun-3, a macintosh, mentioned 20Mhz 386, otherwise no dates), I wish there was more info of who the people are, I would love to read their papers. At a Q&A near the middle, a researcher suggests allowing anyone to create content is a threat to the old publishers, pretty prescient but also typical 80s silicon valley I guess, but what do I know, I wasn’t born yet. Also I rewatched Johnny Mnemonic today (set in 2021!) and apparently some form of that was written in 1981. I realized what irk’d me so much about the Facebook’s presentation was that it had none of the flavor/aesthetic of being inside the computer, just a simulated mansion on the beach, super unimaginative, no attempt to explore the medium. [0] https://youtu.be/5FC4UQDm_mQ https://youtu.be/5FC4UQDm_mQ
avereveard 5y ago
What with the metaverse title?
- return1 5y ago
  Contrary to popular press, the metaverse wasn't invented by Zuck in october 2021. Opensimulator is the most popular open metaverse since 10 years and more.
  - charcircuit 5y ago
    The biggest world has 6 users in it. It doesn't seem popular to me compared to something like VRChat.
    - cblconfederate 5y ago
      vrchat is not open source. opensimulator is not VR, nor a chat
      - charcircuit 5y ago
        It may not be open source, but it is open. It's not some proprietary software only used in a single company.
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        cblconfederate 5y ago
        I 'm not familiar, but can i run the server on my own machine to make sure that they won't be deleting / spying on it ?
        Stevvo 5y ago
        It is NOT open, it's heavily moderated. If your avatar's or worlds are not PG-13, they will not be approved. Unless they combine zoophilia with pedophilia... then they get a pass somehow.
nix23 5y ago
BTW the first "Metaverse" is getting a "reboot": https://github.com/frandallfarmer/neohabitat https://github.com/frandallfarmer/neohabitat
denton-scratch 5y ago
I'm getting pretty fed-up of finding this word in half the headlines I read.
praetoreean 5y ago
https://gridlist.ru https://gridlist.ru and https://moogle.gridlist.ru https://moogle.gridlist.ru Catalog and search engine for content related to the "Metaverse".
deleted 5y ago
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I don't understand the website. Is a story repeated several times about 30 Ways To Avoid death supposed to be related? Bible stories that are true? Nebulous add/network links? Edit: Reloading to 'view in desktop mode' seemed to remove these when switching back to mobile. Turned off for traffic spike?

Buge 5y ago

>sex slave nudebeach Umm no

CodeGlitch 5y ago
This is what ultimately killed Second Life. In the early days it was being used by businesses, for meetings etc. Then all the people with kinks moved in and now no one takes it seriously. Shame really.
- 248ff 5y ago
  > This is what ultimately killed Second Life. In the early days it was being used by businesses, for meetings etc. Then all the people with kinks moved in and now no one takes it seriously. You got your order of events reversed. In the early days of SL (2003-2007) it was mostly chaos: kinky content, ponzi-schemes, gambling and scams. It is in this chaos that SL boomed, but sometime close to its peak (2006-2007) the management realized this isn't sustainable (for both legal and business reasons). So, they started to moderate user-content in order to make it more attractive to mainstream-consumers as well as businesses. And we've seen how that went. Very few are interested.
  - CodeGlitch 5y ago
    Ah fair enough. I just remember those early days they were trying to push the Linden dollar as a way for business to monitize the virtual spaces and objects. It seems to have had a bumpy history.
jongorer 5y ago
MORE LIKE YES AMIRITE

CompuHacker 5y ago

The Active Worlds (unrelated software) universe server is still running and the client is still updated. This page has descriptions of some 94 worlds (of several hundred running, of several thousand all time total) that may still be accessible. http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Category%3AWorlds http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Category%3AWorl...

offbynull 5y ago
I remember this from back in the day. It felt way ahead of it's time. IIRC it originally had a single unified world, which was massive, and you could build stuff in it. It seemed almost endless. You'd just walk and walk and walk and keep seeing new things that people built. Activeworlds is what I think about when people mention the metaverse. A cool concept with great execution that ultimately ends up going nowhere.
- CompuHacker 5y ago
  Everything you saw is still there in Alphaworld (aw 0n 0e 0a 0), quietly losing textures and sounds that were hosted on the greater Internet (GeoCities, in many cases.)

Animats 5y ago

This is not the center of Open Simulator activity. This is just someone's directory of it. With ads. Just as Yahoo was "the directory of the Internet". With ads. I've used Open Simulator and never heard of this site before. A more useful site is Hypergrid Business.[1] This discusses the various players in the Open Simulator world and what they're doing. There already is a distributed, federated metaverse with no single ownership. It's just not all that big. There are currently 362 grid operators, each with their own servers and users. Some are commercial, some are personal. There's a list. [1] https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/ https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/

atribecalledqst 5y ago
Reading the "What is OpenSim" page on your link and... it sounds like the "Metaverse" already exists. The term is being sold like it's a new thing that doesn't exist yet, but it seems like Facebook is behind the times. OpenSim seems pretty cool honestly. Similar draw as Second Life, in my mind. Though I downloaded Second Life and only played it a couple times.
- duskwuff 5y ago
  > OpenSim seems pretty cool honestly. Similar draw as Second Life, in my mind. It's the exact same technology as Second Life, just a third-party implementation.
- ehnto 5y ago
  These are ideas that have existed in pop culture for decades, and had a bunch of attempts at making it happen. It was surreal watching Zuckerberg talk about Horizon Home because it felt like he was projecting a Big Tech veneer over a hobbyists domain. People have been messing with this stuff in VR and earlier with virtual 3d desktops since the 90s, and possibly earlier that I am just not aware of. It felt a bit like Elon Musk doing a keynote on a cool model RC plane he had built.
  - jazzyjackson 5y ago
    re: earlier than the 90s, I grabbed this link [0] from another metaverse thread, showing some 80s VR research (Judging by hardware, Sun-3, a macintosh, mentioned 20Mhz 386, otherwise no dates), I wish there was more info of who the people are, I would love to read their papers. At a Q&A near the middle, a researcher suggests allowing anyone to create content is a threat to the old publishers, pretty prescient but also typical 80s silicon valley I guess, but what do I know, I wasn’t born yet. Also I rewatched Johnny Mnemonic today (set in 2021!) and apparently some form of that was written in 1981. I realized what irk’d me so much about the Facebook’s presentation was that it had none of the flavor/aesthetic of being inside the computer, just a simulated mansion on the beach, super unimaginative, no attempt to explore the medium. [0] https://youtu.be/5FC4UQDm_mQ https://youtu.be/5FC4UQDm_mQ

avereveard 5y ago

What with the metaverse title?

return1 5y ago
Contrary to popular press, the metaverse wasn't invented by Zuck in october 2021. Opensimulator is the most popular open metaverse since 10 years and more.
- charcircuit 5y ago
  The biggest world has 6 users in it. It doesn't seem popular to me compared to something like VRChat.
  - cblconfederate 5y ago
    vrchat is not open source. opensimulator is not VR, nor a chat
    - charcircuit 5y ago
      It may not be open source, but it is open. It's not some proprietary software only used in a single company.
      - deleted 5y ago
        [deleted]
      - cblconfederate 5y ago
        I 'm not familiar, but can i run the server on my own machine to make sure that they won't be deleting / spying on it ?
      - Stevvo 5y ago
        It is NOT open, it's heavily moderated. If your avatar's or worlds are not PG-13, they will not be approved. Unless they combine zoophilia with pedophilia... then they get a pass somehow.

nix23 5y ago

BTW the first "Metaverse" is getting a "reboot": https://github.com/frandallfarmer/neohabitat https://github.com/frandallfarmer/neohabitat

denton-scratch 5y ago

I'm getting pretty fed-up of finding this word in half the headlines I read.

praetoreean 5y ago

https://gridlist.ru https://gridlist.ru and https://moogle.gridlist.ru https://moogle.gridlist.ru Catalog and search engine for content related to the "Metaverse".

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