Well the team at IBM and Linden Labs documented successfull teleportation of several avatars from the Second Life Test grid to an Open Sim region (presumably a standalone, they called it Opensim World but it was just one region), nonetheless the step is being hailed as a landmark occasion in the quest for some kind of grid interoperability. Could it be sooner than we think that we will be able to TP from OpenLife to SL and back? Of course the problems of avatar authentication and asset portability need to be overcome first, but these are currently being worked on by various teams, currently you need an active avatar in each world and your inventory is different in each world. Asset portability is described by imagining your (entire) inventory(s) hosted along with your email, or on a Google server where it can be called on for whichever world you want to rez in, the region then looks to your personal server for your assets, so each world does not have to house everybodys assets, and you have the same inventory everywhere.

Here is a link to the video and story  Dated July 8 2008

www.metaversejournal.com/category/open-source/

Cam

Perhaps some new coming anouncements will help with the popularity boost

There's some even bigger stuff coming on the horizon...

Sakai

The reason SL is much more popular than OL is simply that Sl works and OL doesn't. Every time I log in here I crash very quickly so I can't do anything, and I expect that's the same for most users.

I rarely crash, I used to spend hours building my temple, as may here can attest. I think the foremost factor for crashes is lack of memory either for the video card or main RAM... next is fragmented HD, then iffy internet provider...