Lessons from The Wrong Biennale – Hypergrid Business
Synthetic Dreams Pavilion. (Image courtesy Kimm Starr.) Time really does fly. Six months later, The Wrong Biennale is coming to ...
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Rec Room shuts down after decade and 150 million players – Hypergrid Business
(Image courtesy Rec Room.) Rec Room, a Seattle-based social virtual world that raised $294 million and briefly reached a $3.5 ...
Meta kills its VR metaverse after $84 billion in losses – Hypergrid Business
Zuckerberg’s AI-generated beach. (Image courtesy Meta.) Meta announced this week that it is pulling the plug on the virtual reality ...
Linden Lab quietly opens adult hub in Second Life – Hypergrid Business
Linden Lab opened a new Adult Hub in Second Life in early March 2026, with no official announcement, according to ...
Why I still build with prims in a mesh-driven metaverse – Hypergrid Business
In the late 1990s and early 2010s, virtual worlds were vibrant social spaces where people gathered to build, celebrate, and ...
OpenSim users up, but land area down on OSgrid cleanup – Hypergrid Business
OpenSim’s public grids gained 3,151 active users this month, with 15 grids reporting increases of more than 100 actives. However, land ...
What Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse U-turn means for the future of virtual reality – Hypergrid Business
(Image by Maria Korolov via Adobe Firefly.) Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact ...
ATEK Grid is back – Hypergrid Business
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 ...
A Year of Crisis, Growth, and Loss – Hypergrid Business
We haven’t done one of these in a while! But since I presented on OpenSim statistics at the OSCC conference ...
New AI-driven NPCs can see, navigate, and chat – Hypergrid Business
I’m a developer who’s spent decades working with game engines and AI systems. And watching NPCs stand motionless in elaborate, ...
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