Very interesting news came out late last week about the first successful avatar portal jump from Second Life® to Open Sim was reported by Zha over on his blog Zha’s Virtual Musings.

What’s to unusual about logging into OpenSim? Nothing. But.. this wasn’t a normal login. All three Avatars had been logged on via the Agent Domain in the Linden Lab Aditi test grid. The Agent Domain took a “place_avatar” request from the client, and issued a “rez_avatar” request to the OpenSim, which handed the Agent Domain the necessary details so it could relay it to the client, and permit a login. We’re all Ruth, because we’re not yet syncing the agents with openSim inventory yet. That’s just a small matter of programming… (Well, that’s what we programmers always say.) We have no inventory, and we’re stuck on the single region. But.. It’s a very nice first step.

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Despite many people that are predicting the death of Second Life, I firmly believe that the approach to allow avatars to portal into other worlds is very attractive. I am looking forward to developing my own personal open sim (when I get some time!).