High Fidelity successor to Second life virtual world considering bitcoins!

[Lexi Price]

I didn't know about High Fidelity, but it looks like pretty amazing tech: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/531751/the-quest-to-put-more-reality-in-virtual-reality/

It's exciting. Exciting times. In one interview Philip Rosedale talked about a vision or wish for the metaverse to be explorable by anyone, much the way we already do with static websites, instead it's through virtual reality and immersive 3d environments. I'm not on a private network for the time being so I can't download or run the HiFi package...but I am eager to eventually get to check it out. If anyone here does, please report back on your experiences and get screen shots ;p

Is it just me or is technology in a rapid evolutionary stage with everything gaining momentum, faster and faster, more disruption, more discovery, etc. Seems like there's so much happening and leading us into a beautiful new age yet most people are oblivious to what's going on. So many have no idea whatsoever 3d printing is even a thing, or that Google bought freaky cool robots and is into AI and curing death, and solar drone powered wifi...

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[Lexi Price]

I used to play Second Life in the past...even spent a lot of money to buy myself a land area of my own...paid a builder to build me a couple of buildings...wanted to do some virtual estate business...but the problem was...that I had to leave the country for a while which mean't I didn't have time to focus..and I kind of forgot about it...when I got back my account was suspended..and they asked me to pay extra money just to retrieve and reopen my account. Which kind of turned me away from Second Life.

I've owned a couple of sims/islands in SL until I finally opted out in 2010 and looked into OpenSim but I know what you mean about spending a ton of money on it. Even virtual world hosting (SL) is being disrupted. SL charged 1600 per set up and 295 a month and made millions. OS came along and offered it for free so VW host now have been forced to drop their prices because it's possible for anyone to run a grid on their home computer and port into the hypergrid. It's gone from 300 a month for 1 region to options like 5 regions for 19 bucks a month! Now with OAR and IAR (inventory/object archive) downloads. Most of the content has become open source, full perm freebies.


Gotta love disruption of monopolies, eh? 

[tspacepilot]

I used to play Second Life in the past...even spent a lot of money to buy myself a land area of my own...paid a builder to build me a couple of buildings...wanted to do some virtual estate business...but the problem was...that I had to leave the country for a while which mean't I didn't have time to focus..and I kind of forgot about it...when I got back my account was suspended..and they asked me to pay extra money just to retrieve and reopen my account. Which kind of turned me away from Second Life.

I've owned a couple of sims/islands in SL until I finally opted out in 2010 and looked into OpenSim but I know what you mean about spending a ton of money on it. Even virtual world hosting (SL) is being disrupted. SL charged 1600 per set up and 295 a month and made millions. OS came along and offered it for free so VW host now have been forced to drop their prices because it's possible for anyone to run a grid on their home computer and port into the hypergrid. It's gone from 300 a month for 1 region to options like 5 regions for 19 bucks a month! Now with OAR and IAR (inventory/object archive) downloads. Most of the content has become open source, full perm freebies.


Gotta love disruption of monopolies, eh? 

I'm always running cheap-o hardware so I think I never had the best experience on sl for that reason too.  Although, I never spent any money on it, I just popped in when I pleased and had a litle fun.  Still, yes, I agree you that disruption of monopolies is awesome and if I had better hardware, I'd probably be looking into some of that opensim stuff you're talking about.

[Lexi Price]

http://simonastick.com/

Try that and check the specs. You can run it offline and it defaults as a closed grid option so it's a blank slate that will run on anything, really.

Sorry. VW fangirl.

[tspacepilot]

http://simonastick.com/

Try that and check the specs. You can run it offline and it defaults as a closed grid option so it's a blank slate that will run on anything, really.

Sorry. VW fangirl.

I basically only run GNU/Linux these days.  I was surprised to see "for windows" after PHP, MySQL.    What does VW have to do with it?  There must be some advert that I didn't see or something.

[saddambitcoin]

The Linden exchange for buying & selling SL in-world money "Lindens" turned into one of the earliest BTC exchanges. you could trade your lindens for btc and litecoin and other cryptos, no fiat to crypto though. I believe it still exists, cant remember the name...

Virwox. I remember only because that was about the time when I was figuring out how to acquire my first BTC. Ah, the memories.

[Lexi Price]

http://simonastick.com/

Try that and check the specs. You can run it offline and it defaults as a closed grid option so it's a blank slate that will run on anything, really.

Sorry. VW fangirl.

I basically only run GNU/Linux these days.  I was surprised to see "for windows" after PHP, MySQL.    What does VW have to do with it?  There must be some advert that I didn't see or something.

VW = virtual world fangirl

[tspacepilot]

http://simonastick.com/

Try that and check the specs. You can run it offline and it defaults as a closed grid option so it's a blank slate that will run on anything, really.

Sorry. VW fangirl.

I basically only run GNU/Linux these days.  I was surprised to see "for windows" after PHP, MySQL.    What does VW have to do with it?  There must be some advert that I didn't see or something.

VW = virtual world fangirl

Shit, I thought it was a volkswagon or something.  I was trying to figure out how what you said had something to do with a volkswagon   HA!

[rpietila]

Crypto Kingdom is a 6-month old project now, created to use and support Monero.

During the game (playing started right at launch), it has reached 10% of Monero's marketcap.

[tspacepilot]

Crypto Kingdom is a 6-month old project now, created to use and support Monero.

During the game (playing started right at launch), it has reached 10% of Monero's marketcap.

What does this have to do with Second Life or VW games?  I've heard of Monero (one of those altcoin circus scams) but why are you pushing it here?

Sorry if I"m misunderstanding you.

[rpietila]

Meanwhile a nice looking game Full Metal Wars is doing something similar than us, from the crypto-crowdfunding perspective.

It looks like it's real time so not for people in my age, but check it out

I am also promoting others' games in the CK thread. IMO, one mention does not pushing make. Sorry for offending you nevertheless. 

[tspacepilot]

Meanwhile a nice looking game Full Metal Wars is doing something similar than us, from the crypto-crowdfunding perspective.

It looks like it's real time so not for people in my age, but check it out

I am also promoting others' games in the CK thread. IMO, one mention does not pushing make. Sorry for offending you nevertheless. 

Alright, I'm not offended, I just didn't see the connection to VW and I'm quite suspicious of anything related to altcoins because I usually figure they are just scams ready to collapse on people.

[Febo]

The Linden exchange for buying & selling SL in-world money "Lindens" turned into one of the earliest BTC exchanges. you could trade your lindens for btc and litecoin and other cryptos, no fiat to crypto though. I believe it still exists, cant remember the name...

Anyway, yeah, SL fizzled pretty quick, its mostly a desolate uninhabited wasteland these days. I played for a few months, but my primary goal was to troll the hell out of anyone who had the great misfortune to encounter my AV. lol. good times.

ahhh, here she is now... nice goggy

that exchange named Virwox still exist. But you cant pull lindend from Secondlife anymore directly to that exchange. You need to exchange it on SL exchange, for a nice fee and then pull to paypal for a nice fee and then, ...

[bitwarrior]

The title thread is a bit misleading, it should be printed as considering blockchain technology and not bitcoin itself, plus with the info that they are considering creating their own cryptocurrency for High Fidelity.

[Lexi Price]

This was on here awhile ago - he's definitely a fan of bitcoin. Granted, doesn't mean he won't create a HiFi version of the L$ but even if he does, it'll be an evolution of the micropayment and will almost certainly be compatible on some level with exchanging bitcoin. He's already done it and knows the ropes.

http://www.btcnn.com/2011/08/kevin-rose-and-philip-rosedale-discuss.html

[Kprawn]

It would be stupid, if they going to create a NEW Alt coin for SL. They already have a Crypto Currency with a huge demand, in the form of BTC.

A new Alt coin based on the Blockchain simple makes no sense. The only reason why they would need to develop a NEW coin, would be if BTC does not offer features they need in the coin.

In Batmud we had different smaller units within the currency.. 1 x silver / 1 x bronze / 1 x Mithril etc. ...like we have pennies etc.