New non-Linden grid opening [updated]
Adam Zaius Quiplash announces the opening of Open Life, an alternative Second Life grid developed in conjunction with Finnish developer RealXtend (apparently the companies Admino and Ludocraft are in there somewhere too, but we're still a little hazy on the big picture [Did I mention we're a bit hazy? Pardon the dust]) - who have developed a custom viewer with additional features (like real 3D meshes instead of prims, python scripting, textures-via-HTTP, multiple attachment points per body part, and more) that are unsupported in Second Life currently.
The new grid is going live in the next few hours, apparently, and it seems that everyone's invited. Open Life appears to be renting out simulators for $75US/month. We don't have a lot more information available to us right now, but it all looks very exciting , though reportedly there are stability issues that make the new grid only for the adventurous.
[Update: Okay, this is a bit of a muddle, and we've put together a correction based on better information, check below the fold]
Correction time:
There's actually more than one thread going around and they actually cover more territory than they appear. The post we linked to here by Quiplash, is actually talking about two different things.
One is the Open Life grid, as posted by Quiplash. As we mentioned above. The newest non-Linden grid on the block. The second part is all the nifty extra features that are being worked on by RealXtend -- stuff that had been being hinted at, but aren't presently complete, a part of Open Life, or yet associated with Open Life. Somewhere in the tangle we got Adam Zaius' DeepThink Labs accidentally mixed in -- though they're clearly not involved with this announcement to the best of our knowledge. Though they are apparently working on something dark and secret that we want to know more about.
Sorry about that, folks. We got the mistaken impression that Adam Zaius and Deepgrid Labs were associated with Quiplash and Open Life, and that doesn't appear to be the case at this stage - at least until someone tells us differently.
Oops. I'll just stand here while you throw fruit at me. We apologize for the confusion and now return you to your regularly scheduled comedy of errors.
