OpenSim is waiting for you
●Low prices●Full control●Backups●Vivox voice●Hypergrid●Free content
Prices
●Run on your own servers: free
●Kitely: pay-as-you-go●Commercial hosting: $10 to
$90 a month for an SL-style region
●Discounts for multiple regions
Full control
●No outside TOS●You own all the content●You create and manage all
user accounts●You schedule the
maintenance and other downtime
Backups●Save entire regions as OAR files●Save user inventories as IAR files●Save entire grids●Easily switch hosting providers●Revert to previous versions●Share OARs within your
institutions, or with the public
Vivox voice●Same voice as in Second Life●Directional, lip synched●Private and public channels●Free for small grids & non-profits●Easy setup -- add codes to .INI file●Contact: [email protected]
Hypergrid●Teleport from your grid to those of
other institutions●Your inventories are protected●You can go to meetings, attend
building classes, or hunt for freebies
●Can be turned off when class is in session to keep kids in, strangers out
Free content●LindaKellie.com
○Free OARs to get your grid started
○Dozen different regions○Landscaped○Buildings, freebies, & more
●Opensim-Creations.com●bit.ly/opensim-content
It's not either-or●You can have a private, behind-
the-firewall grid for classes●Use Second Life for networking ●Use Sim-on-a-Stick for private
building●Use Kitely regions for
collaborative building, quick public meetings
Five-step OpenSim quick start●Check out Kitely.com●Travel the hypergrid
with Hyperica.com ●Download New World Studio●Get free OARs from Linda Kellie●Ask hosting providers for free trial
Hosting checklist●Easy-to-use webpanel● Instant OAR exports, uploads ●Easy hypergrid switch●Local time zone support●Free trial, no setup fee●bit.ly/opensim-hosting
Self-hosting options●New World Studio, Sim-on-a-
Stick, Diva Distro●Have regular backups -- critical!●Hypergrid access requires port
forwarding -- an issue for some●"Free as in puppy, not free as in
beer"
Active OpenSim grids
Now at 211, with 274,441 total users and 19,159 active monthly users.
Who's got a private grid?
Types of grids● Open grid: Anyone can connect a region to grid,
even if the region is running on a home computer● Commercial grid: Grid owners are making money● Hypergrid-enabled: Grid allows teleports to and
from other grids● Public grid: Anyone can create a user account
Example: OSGrid is an open, non-profit, hypergrid-enabled public grid. Hyperica is a closed, commercial, hypergrid-enabled private grid.
Types of private grids
● Standalone: Single region● Minigrid: Group of regions hosted on a single
server, typically 4, 9 or 16 regions● Full grid: Unlimited number of regions, hosted on
any number of servers, with a separate server for grid administration and assets
Fastest, easiest way to get into OpenSim
● Login with Facebook or Twitter account, or with email address
● Use Facebook, Twitter groups to manage access to your region
● Quickly upload and download OAR files● Vivox voice, mesh, media-on-a-prim,
megaregions● No hypergrid (yet) -- but it's coming
This is what each user gets for $0 a month:
● One free region of up to 100,000 prims
● Up to two and a half hours of use each month
● Additional unlimited access to any regions where the region owner covers the access costs
This is what each user gets for $35 a month:
● Twenty (20!) regions● Unlimited access to the Kitely grid
Now with flat-rate pricing
● $40 a month for a single region● $60 a month for a four-region
megaregion● $80 a month for a nine-region
megaregion● $100 a month for a 16-region
megaregion
A-la-carte pricing
● Each new region: $0.10 a month. That's ten cents a month.
● Addional use time: $0.20 per hour. 20 cents per hour (billed to nearest minute)
Sample use case:● Students pay $5 each for up to 25 hours
of use a month, plus two regions to build on themselves
● Teacher spends $20 for ten regions, 100 hours of use
● Have different region for each classroom● Export OAR files as backups, previous
versions of builds, other classrooms
Free OpenSim downloads
In order of ease:
● studio.newworldgrid.com ● simonastick.com● opensimulator.org
Sim-on-a-Stick and New World Studio use cases
● Each student can have a free, four-region megaregion on their own computer
● With local networking, students can visit each others' worlds
● A complete world can be distributed to students or other teachers, on a USB stick
Best grids for educators● JokaydiaGrid -- the entire grid is all for
educators!● OSGrid -- visit the Educational Cooperative at
campchamp1 and surrounding regions● ScienceSim -- visit Fern Seed Info region● New World Grid -- visit the BioZone region● New Genres Grid -- visit the HyperSim and
Zerodimension regions● VirtYou -- visit DigiSchool 1, NIFLAR
Reception● Neuland -- visit Eduversa
Best of all -- your OWN grid● University of Cincinnati -- ucsim.uc.edu:8002● vCaltech -- virtual.caltech.edu:9000● Drexel University -- euler.math.drexel.edu:
9000● University of Bolton -- cluster-021.bolton.ac.uk:
3389● University of Auckland -- akl.nzvwg.org:8002● Polytechnic University of Madrid
-- 138.100.96.214:9000
(the above are all hypergrid addresses of private grids)
Links
Hypergrid Business -- hypergridbusiness.com
Hypergrid Destinations -- hyperica.com
These slides -- bit.ly/SUNY-hypergrid
Contact Info:Maria Korolov
Editor & Publisher, Hypergrid Business
[email protected]: 413-323-4356, cell: 413-559-9055
