We updated our system today with an OpenSim security fix and with support for automatically converting VarRegion OAR files into Kitely Advanced Megaregion worlds. We also started advertising Kitely Market on third-party websites, and have seen a sharp increase in marketplace activity as a result.<\/p>\n
Security Fix<\/strong><\/p>\n This release includes the security fix in OpenSim 0.8.0.4. See Justin Clark-Casey’s announcement here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Importing VarRegion OAR Files<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s now possible to load OAR files that were created on VarRegions outside of Kitely into Kitely worlds. The resulting worlds won’t be VarRegions, instead they will use Kitely’s Advanced Megaregions technology.<\/p>\n Regular OpenSim megaregions have some limitations which VarRegions help resolve. Our Advanced Megaregions have\u00a0much of the same functionality as VarRegions, but while VarRegions are limited to using the BulletSim physics engine, our Advanced Megaregions support both the\u00a0newer BulletSim physics engine and\u00a0the more mature ODE physics engine.<\/p>\n Converting megaregions into VarRegions is a non-trivial process with regular OpenSim, but it is now done automatically when you upload VarRegions OAR files into large Kitely worlds. After you’ve created such a world you’ll be able to export it to\u00a0a Megaregion OAR file. Alternatively, if you disable Advanced Megaregion mode for that world then you’ll be able to export\u00a0it to\u00a0a Multi-region OAR file.<\/p>\n Started Ad Campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n We’ve started the Kitely Market ad campaign<\/a> that\u00a0highlights products that our merchants sell in Kitely Market. You can already see these ads on Hypergrid Business<\/a> and SLUniverse<\/a>,\u00a0and we intend to advertise in additional\u00a0websites\u00a0over time.<\/p>\n The ad campaign resulted in an immediate increase in sales volume and in the number of items listed in Kitely Market. Kitely Market has now\u00a0delivered purchased items\u00a0to over\u00a070 OpenSim grids! If you sell content to grids outside Second Life then there’s\u00a0no better way to do it than to list your items in Kitely Market.<\/p>\n Added a Video to the Homepage<\/strong><\/p>\n We added the Kitely Market video to our homepage<\/a>. This video is also displayed to people who click on the ads in the ad campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We updated our system today with an OpenSim security fix and with support for automatically converting VarRegion OAR files into Kitely Advanced Megaregion worlds. We also started advertising Kitely Market on third-party websites, and have seen a sharp increase in marketplace activity as a result. Security Fix This release includes the security fix in OpenSim … Continue reading Import VarRegion OAR Files, and Started Ad Campaign<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}