{"id":723,"date":"2011-08-11T08:32:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2011-08-11T08:32:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T16:32:36","slug":"you-can-have-your-own-virtual-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/11\/you-can-have-your-own-virtual-world\/","title":{"rendered":"You can have your own virtual world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have your own virtual world?\u00a0 It might be for your business or university, or maybe just for you and your friends to hang out in without having to deal with griefers. \u00a0\u00a0Or maybe you\u2019ve wished you could experience other virtual worlds without having to create a new account in each one.<\/p>\n<p>Both are becoming possible.\u00a0 Two emerging software packages, OpenSim and HyperGrid, will soon make them realities and in some cases even easy.\u00a0 Best of all, Second Life\u00ae members \u00a0won\u2019t need to learn much that\u2019s new.\u00a0 The skills you\u2019ve learned In Second Life will mostly carry over to the OpenSim worlds and you can use unofficial Second Life viewers such as Imprudence and Phoenix to visit any OpenSim world.\u00a0 The Hypergrid will do something even more wonderful: it will connect OpenSim virtual worlds in much the way that the Web connects websites.\u00a0 The day is coming when you can have a website that will contain a portal to your own virtual world, and when you\u2019ll be able to teleport from your world to other virtual worlds.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve tried \u00a0three ways you can have your own virtual world today.\u00a0 All are new and still under development.\u00a0 None are really products yet.\u00a0 They are for pioneers, but they are real and available for you to try.\u00a0 The ones I\u2019ve tried are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kitely.\u00a0 This is an amazing concept.\u00a0 It\u2019s what will interest most people.\u00a0 You can have your own single sim virtual world created in just two minutes or less!\u00a0 I have three Kitely worlds.\u00a0 It\u2019s the only one of the four that requires no technical ability to se it up.\u00a0 The limitations are present are that you can\u2019t get on the HyperGrid yet and you can have only one sim.<\/li>\n<li>Diva distro.\u00a0 This is the easiest way to get you to get a world with more than one sim and that\u2019s on the Hypergrid, but you should try it only if you have some technical skills, such as being able to configure port forwarding on your router.\u00a0 Nonetheless, for someone accustomed to configuring computers and software it\u2019s fairly easy to set up.\u00a0 I had mine up fairly quickly and friends were logging into it and enjoying it. \u00a0The Diva distro will meet the needs of most people.<\/li>\n<li>OpenSim.\u00a0 If you anticipate needing more than one server for your world or if you want full flexibility in building your world, then the regular OpenSim distro is what you need.\u00a0 It\u2019s not for the faint of heart, however, and requires a fair amount of technical skills.\u00a0 If you have the skills and the strong pioneering spirit required for plunging into software that\u2019s still being developed, the big problems you\u2019re likely to face are the lack of documentation and the fact that because it\u2019s still evolving as a product, answers you find to your questions are likely to apply to older versions of OpenSIm and not to yours.\u00a0 I have just gotten my own 8 sim virtual world going, but it still needs work to get it to run right.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be writing about my progress in future posts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some links where you can learn more:<\/p>\n<p>Kitely:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitely.com\/\">http:\/\/www.kitely.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download links for Diva and Opensim: <a href=\"http:\/\/opensimulator.org\/wiki\/Download\">http:\/\/opensimulator.org\/wiki\/Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diva Canto\u2019s blog (Diva Canto created the Diva distro and in RL is University of California at Irvine professor Cristina Lopes): <a href=\"http:\/\/metaverseink.com\/blog\/\">http:\/\/metaverseink.com\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have your own virtual world?\u00a0 It might be for your business or university, or maybe just for you and your friends to hang out in without having to deal with griefers. \u00a0\u00a0Or maybe you\u2019ve wished you could experience other virtual worlds without having to create &hellip; 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