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Generally, there is always people around at the Welcome region so don't be too shy to ask for help.

When ready the avatar set off to explore and find new freebies around the grid. When logged into OSgrid the avatar will land at a LBSA plaza and, while initially the avatar will appear very basic, this can be improved easily with free content including skins, shape and clothes in the Welcome region. Useful viewers include Kokua, Singularity and Firestorm, aswell as various others.

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Enter the avatar name and password then login. Most viewers have a grid manager with a list of grids to visit including OSgrid. To join OSgrid one just has to go to the web site at and register an avatar name then download a client viewer to enter the world. Another improvement over Second Life that I touched on above are VAR (variable size ) regions which is basically a way of connecting many regions together to form a bigger seamless space with no border crossings.Ĭurrently, as of September 2017, there are over 300 grids running on OpenSim which is free to download and run as a white label grid or standalone instance connected to an established grid like OSgrid. Bullet physics is being steadily improved while a forked version of OpenSim under development by the InWorldz grid is working towards implementing PhysiX from Nvidia. However, work is going on to improve OpenSim's physics engine. Second Life runs on the Havoc physics so is far better. The physics engine of OpenSim has been the main let down to otherwise excellent software. There is also OMC universal currency on many grids too.

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Other commercial grids are generally found to be running a full economy with their own token currency or Paypal micro payments.

OSgrid, however, remains a none-profit grid but hosting companies are permitted to host regions for private users.

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If a grid chooses to implement a token currency, which the software supports, then items can be bought and sold in-world and, just the same as in Second Life, a virtual economy can exist in which people are making real world cash from content sales and hosting grids and regions for users. What made Second Life great has been carried over into the open Metaverse and user's created content made with in-world building tools similar in some ways to Garry's Mod. But, of course, the modern Metaverse is not all about Cyberpunk for it has spawned many creative uses not least gaming and role playing. Users can, in effect, travel around the Metaverse from grid to grid with their full appearance and access to inventory from their home grid which brings to mind the fictional Metaverse as depicted in Snowcrash and William Gibson's Neuromancer. What makes OpenSim and therefore OSgrid markedly different from Second Life is Hypergrid which allows users to grid hop or teleport out from OSgrid to any number of the other private and commercial grids running the OpenSim software. Thus, OSgrid has developed a sizable community with around 10,000 private regions and over 120,000 registered users.

They do, however, allow anyone who is running the free software to connect their regions to OSgrid and it's asset servers. OSgrid is the oldest of the grids running OpenSim and it was set up by the developers to test the server code. Some call OpenSim, as it became known, a Second Life clone although there are many difference where some are marked improvements like Hypergrid and mega regions (explained further on) while other features like first class physics have been noticeably lacking.

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The server software was developed by a bunch of open source developers when, in 2007, Linden Labs released their SL viewer code into the public domain. OSgrid is a virtual world's platform or virtual grid running the Open Simulator software based on Second Life protocols.