Second Life: Open Grid Public Beta launches

Posted Jul 31, 2008 at 1:57PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Titles, News Tags: IBM, Linden Lab

IBM and Linden Lab have been working together in an effort to get interconnectivity between the Opensim system and Second Life. This feature, which has been called Open Grid, has finally hit its Public Beta phase.

According to the launch details posted on the official website, this beta is intended for virtual world developers. Its main purpose is to "establish a base level of interoperability" meaning that "no inventory, textures, or attachments upon intergrid teleport." This was explained further:

In the first phase of the Beta, we are working with OpenSim developers to allow teleport between the preview grid and a patched version of OpenSim. Zha Ewry of IBM has contributed code to the OpenSim project that implements the Open Grid Protocol.

Interestingly enough, it was also revealed also revealed that in addition to working on the Open Grid Public Beta, the guys over at Linden Lab have been working on Pyogp: an open source client library and test harness code base which fully supports authenticating on the agent domain hosted on the Preview Grid.

Second Life and IBM to open virtual world borders

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by lorneau - 2008-07-31 19:28:19

Part of the marketing scheme?

The naked girl in the screenshot seems ready for some interconnectivity, alright.

by Mediya - 2008-08-01 07:52:56

This was from cracked.com:

A free MMORPG that has no point whatsoever. http://www.cracked.com/article_15250_wtf-8-strangest-communities-on-web.html

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