IBM and Linden Lab have been working together in an effort to get interconnectivity between the Opensim system and Second Life. This feature, which has been called Open Grid, has finally hit its Public Beta phase.

According to the launch details posted on the official website, this beta is intended for virtual world developers. Its main purpose is to "establish a base level of interoperability" meaning that "no inventory, textures, or attachments upon intergrid teleport." This was explained further:

In the first phase of the Beta, we are working with OpenSim developers to allow teleport between the preview grid and a patched version of OpenSim. Zha Ewry of IBM has contributed code to the OpenSim project that implements the Open Grid Protocol.

Interestingly enough, it was also revealed also revealed that in addition to working on the Open Grid Public Beta, the guys over at Linden Lab have been working on Pyogp: an open source client library and test harness code base which fully supports authenticating on the agent domain hosted on the Preview Grid.

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