New InWorldz Desert Island opens

The InWorldz Desert Island has been revamped today and now there is a new welcome point for new residents when they arrive on the grid. The new InWorldz Desert Island looks very impressive and it’s very exciting to explore the new welcome area. It’s open to the public now and it’s going to be very popular in the coming years than the old welcome area I think.

There has been already positive feedback on the new look revamp of the island. Most love the relaxing atmosphere and garden feel to the island which I agree with totally. Woooot!!

Visit InWorldz Desert Island to explore the new look island!

New areas to visit

• New welcome point with new info boards
• New Freebies Tower with 4 floors with new viewing area on top
• New Building Learning Center
• New music/events hangout
• New bowling lane
• And much more!

New InWorldz Desert Island Map

New Welcome point when new residents arrive. Very colorful trees and more seats around the island. 

Snapshot from above showing the new InWorldz Desert Island showing the different areas. 

Snapshot of the new Freebies tower with a new viewing area at the top.

Explore InWorldz – check out the new Landmarks Board with many places to explore on InWorldz!

Stay tuned for more great things soon from InWorldz. Like the new look ?

InWorldz hits 75, 000 total users milestone

Today InWorldz reached another big milestone of 75, 000 total users according to the InWorldz Login Screen. This is another step closer to the big 100, 000 total users mark (expected in 2014 or 2015?). There’s around 350 new residents joining InWorldz each week apparently and that number is expected to rise quicker when physics is fully in place soon. InWorldz is still growing and breaking new records on a regular basis.

New milestone reached of 75, 000+ total users

InWorldz Historical numbers so far

• “The first 1, 000 took almost a year.. the second 1, 000 just a bit over a month..”
• 2, 000 members – 14th May 2010
• 5, 000 members – 20th June 2010
• 10, 000 members – 12th August 2010
• 20, 000 members – 21st October 2010
• 25, 000 members – 12th December 2010
• 30, 000 members – 1st February 2011
• 40, 000 members – 15th July 2011
• 50, 000 members – 15th January 2012
• 55, 000 – 20th April 2012
• 60, 000 members – 18th July 2012
• 70, 000 members – 25th January 2013
• 75, 000 members – 3rd May 2013

Future Predictions…

• 80, 000 members – July/August 2013
• 90, 000 members – January 2014
• 100, 000 members – Mid 2014

NEW: It’s worth looking at Constanza’s blog where you can find new weekly posts on the InWorldz metrics. Graphs, latest region/users stats and much more!

InWorldz Links

• InWorldz Website
• InWorldz Forums
• InWorldz Twitter (latest #InWorldz tweets)
• InWorldz Facebook

Video of new InWorldz Dreamshare

Watch this new video about the new InWorldz Dreamshare which is a new tool from InWorldz that lets everyone show your creations to people all over the world. See announcement on the InWorldz Forums for more details. There will be apparently a QA session for questions next week about InWorldz Dreamshare. This sounds awesome and has potential to become something big in the coming months.

Live demo

• http://dreamshare.inworldz.com/?package … 0483052476
• http://dreamshare.inworldz.com/?package … 00354b4456

What is InWorldz Dreamshare ? 

InWorldz dreamshare allows you to share your creations with people all over the world simply by sending them a link to the dreamshare website. It works in the latest versions of firefox, chrome and safari and doesn’t require any browser plugins to run.

Easily provide friends and family with a glimpse into your world via a simple hyperlink. Simply pick anything from your inventory that you have created and use the dreamshare tools on our website to generate a web friendly version of the item. Up to 64 prims!

New video about InWorldz Dreamshare

What are your first impressions of InWorldz Dreamshare ? 

Top 3 InWorldz Places resources for 2013

Top 3 resource links that I can find for places to visit and explore on the grid of InWorldz during 2013. I hope this is a useful guide to interesting places, shops and much more in InWorldz. Today there are 1, 258 regions and that number is growing on a weekly basis. These are great ways of finding new places and new friends. The Events tab and the Map tab in Search is another good way of finding beautiful sims on the grid and new people. Favourite places to visit in InWorldz during 2013 ? 

• Landmarks board on InWorldz Desert Island – Hundreds of locations to visit in the specific categories shown below. Very useful for newbies joining InWorldz today and for existing residents of InWorldz that want to explore more of the grid.

• InWorldz Places Website - Number one website at the moment for updated locations around InWorldz to check out and hangout. There are a number of categories at the top of InWorldz Places website with amazing snapshots of many places across InWorldz.

• InWorldz Freebie Stores - The most popular freebie stores are located at InWorldz Desert Island and there’s more.

Check out this InWorldz Desert Island Map of Stores which is very useful to see where each store is located on the sim. In the next month or so InWorldz Desert Island will be a major layout change. Stay updated on the latest on the InWorldz Forums.

Happy 4th Birthday InWorldz

Today InWorldz has turned four years old and it’s time to celebrate 4 years with the founders of  the grid. Elenia Llewllyn and Tranquillity Dexter with the rest of the InWorldz team who have worked really hard over the past 4 years to make the grid run smoothly. Woooot!

As far as I’m aware there are no birthday celebrations planned between now and the end of next week (7th April 2013). Last year for the 3rd birthday InWorldz had it’s first official IW conference that took place in Las Vegas. Next year is going to be extra special I think as InWorldz will reach it’s 5th birthday hopefully.

Happy 4th InWorldz!

Snapshot from InWorldz 2nd Birthday 

Snapshot of InWorldz Login Screen taken at 2:50am SLT today. 

117 avatars during load test on InWorldz Desert Island

On 20th March 2013 InWorldz users took part in a load test after 12pm SLT on InWorldz Desert Island where almost half the grid attended in just one region. Apparently 117 avatars were all in the region during the crash test according to Tranquillity Dexler which is an amazing achievement I think. When it reached 117 avatars there was a code bug that took down the region. So I guess more work is needed to cope with more avatars in future load tests on InWorldz.

Best snapshot taken was by Arkady Arkright shown below…

The aim of the load test was to find out how many avatars the sim could put up with on InWorldz Desert Island before it started to cause problems. This load test was very exciting to be part in and i’m sure more records will be set for InWorldz very soon.

Historical stats of load tests on InWorldz:

• 50 avatars on 7th December 2010
• 67 avatars on 22nd April 2011
• 100 avatars on 20th March 2013
• 117 avatars on 20th March 2013

SXSW In InWorldz Weekend 2013

Yesterday on Friday 8th March 2013 the first ever South By Southwest Conference started. The 49 sims expo opened up to the public on the grid of InWorldz. The conference goes on from Friday 8th March to Sunday 10th March 2013 while the real SXSW is taking place in Texas. Will you be attending SXSW In InWorldz ?

Topics range from art, music, education, nature, technology, physics and much more.

• Sim A – Education
• Sim B – Arts & Literature
• Sim C – Entertainment
• Sim D – Technology
• Sim E – Physics
• Sim F – Fantasy & Roleplay
• Sim G – Transportation
• Sim H – The Harbor- Boating & Nature

Check out this full map of the 49 sims for InWorldz SXSW 2013

Event schedule for Saturday 9th March 2013

• 8:00am – 10:00am    DJ Cataplexia Numbers – Belly Dancing
• 10:00am – 12:00pm   DJ – Justin Meyer -
• 12:00pm – 2:00pm    DJ Kally Skytower – Jazz
• 2:00pm – 3:00pm      Subtlety Dalgish Live Blues
• 3:00pm – 4:00pm      Snoots Dwagon – Live Performance
• 4:00pm – 6:00pm     DJ Strummer Skytower – Rock
• 6:00pm – 8:00pm     DJ Kally – Blues
• 8:00pm – 10:00pm   DJ Clint Westwood – country
• Sun Mar 10       SXSW
• 8 a.m. – 10 a.m. — open
• 10:00am – 12:00pm     DJ – Justin Meyer
• 12:00pm – 2:00pm    DJ G-WINZ
• 2 p.m. -3 p.m.  – open
• 3:00pm – 4:00pm    Reggie Sunset
• 4:00pm – 6:00pm    DJ Strummer Skytower -Rock
• 6:00pm – 8:00pm    DJ Kally – Blues
• 8-10 p.m. — open

Event schedule for Sunday 10th March 2013

• 10:00am – 12:00pm     DJ – Justin Meyer
• 12:00pm – 2:00pm    DJ G-WINZ  – Electroswing
• 2 p.m. -3 p.m.  — open
• 3:00pm – 4:00pm    Reggie Sunset  – Live Guitar & Song
• 4:00pm – 6:00pm    DJ Strummer Skytower -Rock
• 6:00pm – 8:00pm    DJ Kally – Blues- Closing

For the latest SXSW 2013 InWorldz discussions visit the InWorldz Forums.

New mesh enabled InWorldz Beta Viewer 2.0.0.31227

Great news announced on the InWorldz Forums this week is that a new first public beta viewer for InWorldz users has been released. It now comes with mesh enabled and it now moves from InWorldz version 1.5.0 up to version 2.0.0.31227. This viewer is a public beta viewer and according to the devs there are bugs/improvements that still need to be worked on. It works only with Windows and Linux with a Mac version in the works.

• How to upload Mesh - check the post for instructions on how to upload mesh on the InWorldz Beta Grid.

InWorldz beta viewer 2.0.0.31227 login screen 

InWorldz beta viewer 2.0.0.3 user interface

What do you think of the new version of InWorldz Beta Viewer 2.0.0.31227 ?

InWorldz reaches 70, 000 registered users

InWorldz has now officially reached the 70, 000 registered users mark at 1am PDT/SLT today according to the InWorldz Login Screen. This is another big leap forward in growth numbers for InWorldz. Congratulations to InWorldz and hopefully it won’t be long until it hits the big one of 100, 000 registered users (late 2014/2015).

My snapshot of the InWorldz Login Screen at  5.10am PDT/SLT)

Wooot – 70, 000 at 1am PDT/SLT.

(Snapshot taken by Snoots Dwagon via InWorldz Forums)

• “The first 1, 000 took almost a year.. the second 1, 000 just a bit over a month..”
• 1, 000 registered users– 16th February 2010
• 2, 000 registered users – 14th May 2010
• 5, 000 registered users – 20th June 2010
• 6, 000 registered users – 29th June 2010
• 7, 000 registered users – 4th July 2010
• 10, 000 registered users – 12th August 2010
• 20, 000 registered users – 21st October 2010
• 25, 000 registered users – 12th December 2010
• 30, 000 registered users – 1st February 2011
• 40, 000 registered users – 15th July 2011
• 50, 000 registered users – 15th January 2012
• 60, 000 registered users – 18th July 2012
• 70, 000 registered users – 25th January 2013

On Second Life it reached the 100, 000 registered accounts mark on 23rd December 2005. The big milestone of 1 million registered accounts was back on the 18th October 2006.

InWorldz Raglan Shire Great Tree 2013 – New Freebies, Newspaper and Rentals for Tinies

News this week is that the Friends of Raglan Shire InWorldz group have announced some very interesting exciting updates. InWorldz Raglan Shire Great Tree is one of the best places to visit on InWorldz because its home of the tinies community. I recommend everyone to visit and spend time looking around this amazing InWorldz landmark during 2013.

The Tinies of Raglan Shire are growing a City in a Giant Tree! Dances, aos, animations, skins, textures, clothing, tiny avatars, art, gestures, fun!

Teleport SLURL < InWorldz viewer required!

New Freebies

There is a box of 9 free tiny animations at the Welcome Center located at the Raglan Shire Great Tree thanks to Rowena Paine.

New Raglan Shire Newspaper

It’s now available online (January 2013 issue) at http://en.calameo.com/read/001956131cf7903f1ffcb. Monthly issues of the Raglan Shire newspaper will be released in 2013.

Rentals for Tinies now available

Tinies are now able to rent and spaces are now available. There are many levels of the tree to visit with shops to rent and homes to live in. Interested in renting? IM Liandras Jameson for more details.

Check out my new snapshots of InWorldz Raglan Shire Great Tree 2013.

InWorldz PhysX rollout is now completed grid wide

Update 4: As expected the long awaited InWorldz physics (known as PhysX) has fully launched across the InWorldz grid in the early hours of this morning (SLT) grid wide which is phase 1 apparently. This is now very exciting times for InWorldz as PhysX opens up new virtual possibilities and its going to make the inworldz user experience great fun now I think for 2013+.

Balpien Hammerer is almost ready with his land/sea/air vehicle script for vehicle makers and I (or he) will post instructions here on how to obtain it for free.

Wooooot!!!!

• World menu > Region/Estate > Region Version 
• PhysX 0.8.0 R2753

Tranquillity Dexler posted on the InWorldz Forums yesterday (8th January 2013) announcing the start of PhysX rollout which I believe has been completed. Great news!

Tonight I will begin rolling the release to the grid. It has the version number “InWorldz PhysX 0.8.0 R2761″. Note that in the future the PhysX portion of the version number will be dropped and should not be relied upon to indicate a physics compatible release.

After this rollout we will continue to implement any remaining functionality as well as the lsl vehicle functions. Balpien Hammerer is almost ready with his land/sea/air vehicle script for vehicle makers and I (or he) will post instructions here on how to obtain it for free.

Thank you for being part of InWorldz in 2013!

Tranquillity Dexler updates the InWorldz Forums announcing the start of the rollout…

The rollout is commencing now.

Great work to the InWorldz Team!

InWorldz physics rollout phase 1, update 3

Update 3: The latest news for physics rollout across InWorldz is that around 120 regions are now running PhysX 0.8.0 R2753 and the full rollout will be early next week (7th-13th January 2013). Another development is that the physics vehicle script set is being finalized today which is great news indeed. Very exciting

Check region version for PhysX…

• World menu > Region/Estate > Region Version 

Thanks to Tranquillity Dexler for the updates via Twitter today about InWorldz PhysX rollout. Update 4 will be posted when I hear more on the rollout.