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Over the past 10 years, nearly 3 million people have visited Hypergrid Business, reading over 3,000 articles by more than 205 different contributors. Over the past three years, typical monthly pageviews have ranged between 45,000 and 450,000 each month. Hypergrid Business is an online publication indexed by Google News that covers enterprise uses of immersive virtual reality environments and virtual worlds. Launched in 2009, Hypergrid Business has a particular focus on OpenSim, a scalable, open-source peer-to-peer virtual reality platform that allows users to transmit messages, virtual objects, and even their avatars from one world to another but has grown to include coverage of virtual reality hardware, software, and industry news. It is ranked as one of the top ten virtual reality blogs by FeedSpot, and one of the top five virtual reality blogs by Techtyche. Source

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OpenSim April stats down on grid outage

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While the total number of registered OpenSim users increased by 2,528 this month, both land area and active users were down by 271 regions and 803 actives, respectively. However, Darkheart’s Playground‘s website was down this month and I couldn’t get its numbers — and, last month, that grid reported more than 400 regions and more than 1,500 actives. So the drop in usage is most likely a technical issue, not a sign of decreasing traffic because of the nice weather outside.
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Why I still build with prims in a mesh-driven metaverse

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In the late 1990s and early 2010s, virtual worlds were vibrant social spaces where people gathered to build, celebrate, and create communities online. Platforms such as Second Life and several Open Sim-based grids—including InWorldz, Kitely, and OSG. Over time, however, participation in many of these worlds has declined dramatically. For those who built businesses and social networks within them — like me —  the decline is not just a statistic. It’s a personal experience.
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Statistics » March 2026 OpenSim grid stats

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This list only includes the 216 grids that have published usage data this month. Some grids may have been down for maintenance, relocation, or were shut down since our survey last month. ‘Regions change,’ ‘Users change’ and ‘Actives change’ refers to how many more regions, registered users, and active users the grid reported compared to the previous month.
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How to use AI to write — and still sound like yourself

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(Image by Maria Korolov via Google Gemini.) OpenSim offers more control, a more supportive community, and way, way, way cheaper land rates than Second Life. Grids should be raking in the dough. And we are seeing slow, steady increases in the user base. But we could be seeing more, if more people knew that OpenSim existed. That means getting the word out about what’s happening in OpenSim. The fun events. The social gossip. Even the controversies.
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Linden Lab quietly opens adult hub in Second Life

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Linden Lab opened a new Adult Hub in Second Life in early March 2026, with no official announcement, according to blogger Inara Pey, who first reported on the facility March 7. The only official sign of the Adult Hub is the SecondLife teleport link. Second Life first teased the hub in December 2023, describing it as “Something Spicy” that was coming, according to JuicyBomb blogger Gogo, who visited the facility shortly after it opened.
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Philip Rosedale keynotes education conference opens Thursday in Second Life

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The 19th annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference opens Thursday, March 19, and runs through March 21, entirely inside Second Life. The conference is completely virtual and free to attend. It is hosted primarily in Second Life and will also be live-streamed on YouTube.
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OpenSim users up, but land area down on OSgrid cleanup

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OpenSim’s public grids gained 3,151 active users this month, with 15 grids reporting increases of more than 100 actives. However, land area and registered user numbers were both town. Most of the loss in land area was due to a major cleanup on OSgrid. The grid reported a drop of more than 800,000 standard region equivalents. Most of that was due to the shutdown of a geographic simulation project, but there was also a loss of other regions, most likely due to a database cleanup.
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An ‘AI afterlife’ is now a real option – but what becomes of your legal status?

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(Image by Maria Korolov via Google Gemini.) Would you create an interactive “digital twin” of yourself that can communicate with loved ones after your death? Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has made it possible to seemingly resurrect the dead. So-called griefbots or deathbots – an AI-generated voice, video avatar or text-based chatbot trained on the data of a deceased person – proliferate in the booming digital afterlife industry, also known as grief tech.
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ATEK Grid is back

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Atek Grid. (Image courtesy Atek Grid.) We are pleased to formally announce that ATEK Grid is officially back online at atekgrid.com. Over the past several weeks, we have quietly brought the platform back up and stabilized core systems. With that groundwork complete, our focus now turns to rebuilding ATEK Grid as a technology platform designed to support the OpenSim community and the broader metaverse ecosystem through practical tools, infrastructure, and collaboration.
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Artificial metacognition: Giving an AI the ability to ‘think’ about its ‘thinking’

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AIs could use some self-reflection. (Image by Maria Korolov via Adobe Firefly.) Have you ever had the experience of rereading a sentence multiple times only to realize you still don’t understand it? As taught to scores of incoming college freshmen, when you realize you’re spinning your wheels, it’s time to change your approach. This process, becoming aware of something not working and then changing what you’re doing, is the essence of metacognition, or thinking about thinking.
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