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Continuing to drive an interop standard, Linden Lab starts to build code to bridge into OpenSim. Biggest open question is how will content movement happen and how will creator rights be protected or put at risk?
My second experiment in writing for the press.
MIT Technology Review Article
Today is a historic day indeed the opening of a public bridge between the Second Life Preview Grid and the Opensim Grids who choose to participate. Now for the uninitiated the bridge looks something like the following (image thanks to Crooked Brains):
It is narrow a bit wobbly, but it is really a masterful start and a further signal of Linden Lab’s strategy to open the architecture.
There are limits of course, no inventory is transferred so your fancied up SL avatar will appear in Ruth format with an empty inventory. But if you only focus on the limitations, you might miss the big picture. Opensim is have fantastic success, with 26 grids registered hosting approximately 2300 regions. The SL grid has 28070 regions. By these numbers Opensim grids combined are about 8% of the size of the entire SL grid, and I for one know there are many singleton Opensim regions waiting to go public.
SL’s Columbus has arrived in the new new virtual world and Opensim residents represent the native population. So far, it is all turkeys and cranberry sauce. I can’t wait for the next 12 months.
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