OSFest 2023 starts Friday, runs through Sunday – Hypergrid Business

The annual OpenSimulator Neighborhood Convention, generally known as OSFest, will happen September 15 by 17 contained in the OSFest digital world grid. The three-day occasion options reside music, displays, talks, excursions, social areas, and looking for attendees throughout the hypergrid metaverse.

This 12 months’s OSFest gives 94 hours of displays, panels, excursions, and workshops in addition to 98 hours of reside music performances throughout 4 phases. Members can discover themed exhibit builds, store service provider shops with particular offers, and socialize at events and dance occasions. There isn’t a cost to attend OSFest.

To attend OSFest 2023, customers merely want an account on any hypergrid-enabled OpenSim grid and use the map to teleport over. The hypergrid tackle is grid.opensimfest.com:8002:hg-welcome.

“We’re excited to welcome the prolonged metaverse neighborhood and hypergrid vacationers to this 12 months’s OSFest,” mentioned lead organizer Shelenn Ayres. “It’s an immersive option to join, have enjoyable, and expertise the breadth of creativity in digital worlds.”

The occasion builds on the success of earlier OSFests held yearly since 2017. Annually, displays, phases, and infrastructure are created anew by volunteers. OSFest additionally depends on contributions from sponsors to cowl primary internet hosting prices for the free occasion.

Main sponsors this 12 months embrace Past Zen Life, Digital Outworlding, Infinite Metaverse Alliance, Laxton Consulting, Digital Vignette, and Wolf Territories Grid, amongst many others. The total checklist of sponsors is right here.

“The generosity of sponsors and energy of volunteers is what retains OSFest going yearly,” Ayres mentioned.

The total schedule, performer lineup, and interactive OSFest portal with data on all displays, displays, and actions might be discovered at OpenSimFest.com.

Verify the calendar web page at OpenSimFest.com/calendar or the final schedule at OpenSimFest.com/schedule/osfest-2023.

Organizers advocate choosing up a landmark field after arriving to assist navigate the sprawling areas. With a theme of “Jazz By the Ages,” costumes matching 1860s to Seventies kinds are inspired however not required.