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The MyTruLife OpenSim Resource Project is an organized effort to create both a directory of all things OpenSim in any Metaverse, and also a Shared Asset Library which anyone may freely use items from. The MyTruLife Membership is comprised of men and women from around the world who hold deep rooted beliefs that information and assets should be made freely available to help promote virtual reality and its utility value to the average consumer. All are invited to join in on the project and begin the journey with us of creating the best OpenSim resource the world has ever seen.

Applying textures in Opensim + other great OpenSim tutorials from this page

PixieTec, a virtual worlds development company based in Germany, released the preview version of its browser-based PixieViewer today, which allows users to visit OpenSim grids without installing any software or plugins. PixieViewer is based on HTML 5 technology, and runs in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and other modern browsers. It loads instantly, and is fast and responsive. To access it, all users have to do is go to the login page and create a new user account.

OpensimWorlds is a place to share and find Opensim archive files for loading and hosting on your own server. OpenSim archives can save all the necessary asset data to fully restore the terrain, the textures of objects and their inventories when loaded onto a completely different system using a different asset database.

Article about OpenSim. Intel creates middleware that allows an OpenSim to support 1000+ users.

Installing OpenSim on Windows XP with MySQL

This is a community of educators commenting on: Do you use OpenSim in your teaching? How?

A blog post about integrating FreeSwitch with OpenSim.

Have you ever had enough to create shortcuts again and again on your desktop, type and retype the login URIs again and again ? Just put them to the trash and install OpenSim Launcher ! Now you can choose the grid you want to connect to among dozens of others, and choose the viewer you want to use among Second Life viewer and RealXtend ! Never retype your avatar name again ! It reminds them for you. You may have different avatar names on each grid. Just select the grid and the corresponding avatar name shows up ! Your passwords are never stored anywhere for more security. You can also clear your stored identities.

A good comparison chart between Second Life and OpenSim.

Blender 2.5 has a new import feature that can be used for making terrain in Blender. Most terrain tutorials are about getting terrain into Blender and little if anything about getting it out. Those that are about exporting terrain are mostly for Blender 2.49. There are enough changes between 2.49 and 2.59 that it is hard to figure how to accomplish 2.49 tasks in 2.59. This article is about importing terrain to Blender and exporting for use in Second Life and OpenSim. Part 1 is about getting terrain in and Part 2 about getting terrain out.

Staff ICT trainer at an independent K-12 school who had explored Quest Atlantis, OpenSim and Second Life Teen Grid. She has just esablished virtual 3D space for their school with OpenSim + ReactionGrid.

Owen Kelly, Lecturer in Online Media, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki talks about: the origins of the idea of virtual worlds in science fiction; the launch of Second Life and what it set out to do; why people want to live a virtual life; buying and selling virtual goods; different identities with avatars; the US tax authorities' interest in gambling in Second Life; how OpenSim evolved as a competitor to Second Life; and the attempts to create a universal software (hyper grids) for virtual worlds.

Description of how to export from Autodesk to OpenSim and Second Life.

With a middleware client manager, Intel was able to get 1000 avatars in a single region, though without the ability to build buildings or scripts. This would be ideal for a virtual conference in OpenSim.

Running OpenSim and Imprudence on a USB Key

Writing server-side scripts to perform OpenSim server commands.

Actual geographical locations for OpenSim using U.S. Geological Survey data.