OpenSimulator

About OpenSimulator

OpenSimulator is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server that can be used to create a virtual environment. Its virtual environment can be accessed through a variety of clients on multiple protocols. It also has an optional facility to allow users to visit other OpenSimulator installations across the web from their 'home' OpenSimulator installation and that makes it the basis of a nascent distributed Metaverse. OpenSimulator allows virtual world developers to customize their worlds using the technologies as it has designed the framework to be easily extensible. It is written in C#, running both on Windows over the .NET Framework and on Unix-like machines over the Mono framework. Its source code is released under a BSD License, a commercially friendly license to embed OpenSimulator in products. OpenSimulator can be used to simulate virtual environments similar to Second Life, given that it supports the core of Second Life’s messaging protocol. As such, these virtual worlds can be accessed with the regular Second Life viewers. OpenSimulator was launched in 2007.