1. THE HYPERGRID IS
READY FOR YOU
NOW
Maria Korolov
Editor & Publisher, Hypergrid Business
maria@hypergridbusiness.com

2. OpenSim is waiting for you
● Low prices
● Full control
● Backups
● Vivox voice
● Hypergrid
● Free content

3. 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

4. Full control
● No outside TOS
● You own all the content
● You create and manage all
user accounts
● You schedule the
maintenance and other
downtime

5. 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

6. 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: opensim@vivox.com

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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"

14. Active OpenSim grids
Now at 211, with 274,441 total users and
19,159 active monthly users.

15. Who's got a private grid?

16. 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.

17. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. This is what each user
gets for $35 a month:
● Twenty (20!) regions
● Unlimited access to the Kitely grid

22. 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

23. 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)

24. 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

25. Free OpenSim downloads
In order of ease:
● studio.newworldgrid.com
● simonastick.com
● opensimulator.org

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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)

29. Links
Hypergrid Business -- hypergridbusiness.
com
Hypergrid Destinations -- hyperica.com
These slides -- bit.ly/SUNY-hypergrid

30. Contact Info:
Maria Korolov
Editor & Publisher, Hypergrid Business
maria@hypergridbusiness.com
work: 413-323-4356, cell: 413-559-9055