I visited another Open Sim project, this one called Hippo Open Sim. You have to download a Hippo Client which is, as far as I can tell, an open source version of the Second Life client. Hippo is more advanced than Open Life with much better freebies and more features working. Hippo also offers a feature where you can download the simulator to your computer and add your sim to the grid. I haven't tried this but from what I can tell the claim is genuine. And if the claim is genuine, it represents a major advance in the state of the art for virtual worlds. Although it is a bit more complicated, this could to for virtual worlds what the Apache server did for websites.
Virtual land prices are, at once, a bit too high and exceedingly soft. This keeps a lot of organizations away. But, if you can download the simulator software for free and tinker with it on your own computer this opens the markets to huge numbers of people with more technical talent than money. This is both exciting and promising.
I will look in this more and try to get some of the facts nailed down.
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