The annual OpenSimulator Competition, often called OSFest, takes place September 15 by way of September 30 contained in the OSFest digital world grid. The sixteen-day occasion options stay music, reveals, talks, excursions, social areas, and searching for attendees throughout the Hypergrid metaverse.
This 12 months’s OSFest presents 94 hours of non-music occasions at free, themed reveals, service provider shops, and sponsor reveals in addition to 98 hours of stay music performances throughout 4 phases.
Members can discover themed exhibit builds, store service provider shops with particular offers, and socialize at events and dance occasions. There isn’t any cost to attend OSFest.
To attend OSFest 2023, customers merely want an account on any hypergrid-enabled OpenSim grid and use the map to teleport over. The hypergrid deal with is grid.opensimfest.com:8002:hg-welcome.
“We’re excited to welcome the prolonged metaverse neighborhood and hypergrid vacationers to this 12 months’s OSFest,” stated lead organizer Shelenn Ayres. “It’s an immersive solution to join, have enjoyable, and expertise the breadth of creativity in digital worlds.”
The occasion builds on the success of earlier OSFests held yearly since 2017. Every year, reveals, phases, and infrastructure are created anew by volunteers. OSFest additionally depends on contributions from sponsors to cowl fundamental internet hosting prices for the free occasion.
Main sponsors this 12 months embody Beyond Zen Life, Virtual Outworlding, Infinite Metaverse Alliance, Laxton Consulting, Virtual Vignette, and Wolf Territories Grid, amongst many others. The full list of sponsors is here.
“The generosity of sponsors and energy of volunteers is what retains OSFest going yearly,” Ayres stated.
The complete schedule, performer lineup, and interactive OSFest portal with info on all reveals, shows, and actions will be discovered at OpenSimFest.com.
Test the calendar web page at OpenSimFest.com/calendar or the overall schedule at OpenSimFest.com/schedule/osfest-2023.
Organizers suggest choosing up a landmark field after arriving to assist navigate the sprawling areas. With a theme of “Jazz Via the Ages,” costumes matching 1860s to Nineteen Seventies types are inspired however not required.
