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OpenLife enables instant land purchases

[Thanks to Macphisto Angelus for his original article at olx.cybertechnews.org]
Now you can walk around OpenLifeGrid and shop the land you like on the spot - using OpenLife credits. Openlife announced that they have enabled instant land purchases on the mainland. The purchase system utilizes Server Side Objects (SSO), which were introduced before as the technology behind growing [...]

OpenLife Credits are working

(Via olx.cybertechnews.org)
3DX, the company that owns the OpenLife Grid, announced that credit purchases took another step to full implementation. As many know, before people would use the “contact us” page on the OpenLife site and 3DX manually filled the orders.

Today though credits took the next step in purchasing with semi-automatic means. No, that doesn’t [...]

OpenLife to receive rolling update on Friday

via olx.cybertechnews.org
A rolling update is scheduled to kick off 6am -10am UTC Friday 20th March. In rolling updates the grid does not go offline. Regions will restart to update and that will take between 2-5 mins aprox.

Some new features coming are:

Credits Purchase from inside the viewer (click the C Star icon top right)
Credits Purchase through [...]

OpenLife Micropayments status and other updates

Today Sakai Openlife of the OpenLife Grid hosted a Q&A Session on 3DX Island. Among the topics were SSOs and of course the coming currency that will be in the next server update and expected to be live this coming Wednesday, March 4th. 
Residents should be able to start buying credits on the Thursday following. Here are [...]

Openlife and Second Inventory developers working together

Users of the Openlife and popular backup software for Avatar inventory called Second Inventory would be aware of the disabled access to the Openlife with second inventory software whilst improvements to security and stability are made. 

Second Inventory developers are working together with the 3DX team to make improvements to the methods and capabilities of second [...]

Orbitz event was out of this world!

Last Saturday (Feb. 14th) was a day of love. Traditionally we celebrate Valentine’s Day. In OpenLife it was a double celebration as love got to rule the day but also Osiris Indigo (owner of OLX) unveiled “Orbitz”. Orbitz is a beautiful and futuristic club 3000km in the air on the Otherwhere region. To get there [...]

Openlife: Leapfrogging to the evolution of the grid

Tonight a meeting was held for the public on 3DX Island where Sakai was to introduce us to some of the new devs he has working in Taiwan with him at 3DX. We got the pleasure of meeting Padre and Sai OpenLife. Both were very cordial and greeted us as we arrived.
First off though Sakai [...]

OLX purchases virtual land for projects

 

A new era at OLX.
Thanks to the generous donations of members at OLX, we have reached the milestone to purchase Private Clusters on The OpenLife grid! This is a very exciting event for OLX and OpenLife residents will see many benefits as things are developed there.
The Clusters have been ordered and OLX now joins the [...]

KirstenLee shows build process for Openlife R16 viewer

OpenLife is privileged to have Kirstenlee Openlife (Cinquetti) on it’s viewer development team. KirstenLee has a reputation for building one of the most rock solid SL viewer derivatives available.

R16 Login Screen
The only way in to OpenLife is using the official OpenLife viewer (see earlier CTN article: OpenLife blocks SL Viewer in favor to R16.2). What we have [...]

Welcome to OLX on CyberTech News!

We are pleased to announce that OLX (OpenLife Xchange) has now joined with CyberTech news to bring you OpenLife news and happenings in this sparkly new format. OLX has a large and fast growing membership and we are excited to bring this new experience to you.
We are happy to be working with Jani Pirkola, [...]