Happy Holidays

The last week of 2015 is due. Time to gather with friends and family, eat have fun and good times. Tomorrows Friday party will be live as always, and DJ'd by Halriasa Aeon, Dan Banner, and LadyJo Martin. Your's truly will try to attend as well, but it will be later than usual.

If however, you don't see a lot of me next week(s), it's due to Steams Winter Sale !  Also here, here and here you can grab loads of cool games for very little money.

OSG released 0.9.37 which can be downloaded here. Overall 2015 was a great year for the metaverse, with a record amount of new users  listed.

If you don't have social obligations, and like to spend time online, there are a ton of events next week, check the opensimworld event calendar for more details.

That's all for now. Merry Christmas to you and all those you love & happy holidays.

Board meeting & Community conference

OSgrids Secretary Albertlr Landar has announced a board meeting on OSG Forums.

The board of OSgrid, Inc. has scheduled its annual meeting of the membership on Sunday, December 13th, 2015 at 11 am Grid time. The meeting will be held at Event Plaza. As you might have read a major & mandatory update is being scheduled, and OSG is making an effort on informing everyone prior to this update being released.

OpenSimulator community conference is held on 5th of December. The website is offline for some reason, but you can "reserve" your seat, or sponsor the event via this link. (eventbrite). An event schedule is found here. For further information you can contact avacon, who organizes this event.

Opensimulator passed the 71.000 regions mark. The Hypergrid is still growing. More and more grids emerge. For all the people that worry the metaverse is dying, ask yourselves who maintains these 70.000 regions. Also try and hop in on one of the great events the grids offer. You can party non stop nearly all weekend. An event calendar is found here.  

Last but not least, I should not forgot too mention that next 2 weeks are very good weeks to make OAR and IAR exports. Make sure you get copies before the 9.0 upgrade arrives  Better safe than sorry.  Have a Maintenance day !

Over 128 dead 180 injured in Paris terrorist attacks.

"All it will take for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing."

R.I.P.

Playing around

Last week i have not been online much,as i have been playing some games on my television with my Steam controller and Steam Link. I pre-ordered a kit in Juli, and last week DHL delivered. Since i have a rather large collection of games on steam, i'm having a blast. Just need to get used to play with controllers, as in my world "Joysticks are for n00bs". (I don't play consoles, as i am an oldschool PC gamer). However, playing any game in your living room, on widescreen is pretty nice.

Obviously i had to try some "non steam" games with the link, and as you can see in the picture, this works just fine. (I just need to still screen adjust for the viewer, and map some buttons on the controller to fly). For the rest, the steam controller lets you operate the basics pretty much "out the box". It has a trackpad with haptic feedback that operates as a mouse, and the other pad and joystick act as WASD.

I did hook a wireless keyboard to the Steam link, as chatting on a controller will not become a hobby. (although it works a hell of a lot better than on a TV or mobile, still the keyboard is my preferred tool for it). Since the link has a bunch of USB ports, i only need to find a wireless headset, and i can become a couch potato

But there you have it. OSGrid on TV Via Steamlink. Very workable, and with a proper controller configuration, a great new way to explore the metaverse. In the next week(s) i will try and see if its possible to upload alternative controller configurations for non-steam games (for steam games this is already possible) so you can download a "working out of the box" viewer config.

Last but not least, a mandatory update of opensimulator is about to be released. Keep up to speed by clicking HERE.