Gloebit has developed a drop-in module integrating our currency service with the OpenSimulator virtual world platform. We are testing this beta on a number of public virtual worlds running on OpenSim.

Read our launch announcement on Medium.

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Uniting Virtual Reality With One Digital Currency

Learn More

Find out all the details, where you can test our module or how to request beta access for your grid from the OpenSim Gloebit Money Module section of our developer site.

Updates

We’ll continue to post updates such as improvements we’ve made, feedback we’ve received and press coverage here, so check back.

Press

• Hypergrid Business - Ex-Linden money chief creates new metaverse currency
• Hypergrid Business - How to use gloebits
• Hypergrid Business on early reception of GMM beta by OpenSim grids

Versions of OpenSim

We’ve built our GMM against all of the following OpenSim versions which are being tested:

• 0.9.0 Dev
• 0.8.2
• 0.8.1
• 0.8.0

If you’d like to try out our OpenSim GMM, see our list of beta test regions.

Updates to the GMM

• pgSQL support
  • Added on 2016-02-11
  • The initial launch only supported MySQL. Thanks to a lot of help from Zetamex, we have fixed the integration with pgSQL.
  • Note for anyone else writing code for pgSQL, the npgsql library which OpenSim uses to execute queries from C# will silently fail/freeze on constraint errors. This is very bad for a sql library and makes debugging a bit of a challenge.
• Backport for OpenSim 0.8.0.3
  • We had to make some very minor modifications to run with OpenSim 0.8.0.3 which dates back to November of 2014, but we now have a branch of our module with those modifications.
  • This turned out to be a bit of a challenge due to some incompatibilities with older versions of OpenSim and recent versions of Mono. Huge thanks to the opensim-dev IRC channel, especially Plugh and AliciaRaven, for helping us to discover this.
  • If you’re building an older version of OpenSim, make sure you are using Mono 3.12.1 or earlier. 4.x versions of Mono will not work. We believe this was fixed by Diva Canto in August of 2015.
• Per-region Currency Symbol and buy-url updating
  • Updated on 2016-04-26
  • We have added the OpenSimExtras parameters “currency” and “currency-base-url” which are delivered when a client makes a features request upon entering a new region.
  • Cider Roxley has added code to make use of these to the Alchemy Dire viewer, though we have not yet tested this
    • https://bitbucket.org/alchemyviewer/alchemy-dire/commits/f41da42e55d92eb49b4cc3a535c5056ea5f9c25b
  • Kalasiddhi Grid informed us of a conflict this feature created with mesh objects rendering (which we fixed on 2016-04-26).
    • While researching the issue, we discovered that OpenSim’s SimulatorFeatureModule was not implemented properly. Melanie_T patched the module and we updated our integration.
    • Big thanks to opensim-dev on IRC, Melanie_T, and Kalasiddhi Grid.
• Grid Fees
  • Added on 2016-04-08
  • Implemented support for group creation, classified ad, and asset upload fees
  • Fees are paid to the account which created and owns the application. No additional configuration of a “Banker Account” is required.
• Fixed message spamming of agents in nearby regions
  • Added on 2016-04-08
  • We learned a lot more about the IClientAPI and discovered the OnCompleteMovementToRegion event, which we now use to send a balance update and gloebit purchase message to the user upon entering a Gloebit enabled region.
  • Currently, the user will receive a single IM with the purchase url upon entering (logging in, teleporting, or crossing a region boundry) and Gloebit enabled region. If this is too much messaging for users, we’ll examine ways to reduce it, though we’ve erred on extra information for now.
  • A user should no longer receive a purchase url message from Gloebit when on a non-Gloebit region near a Gloebit enabled region.
  • A user should only receive a single message when entering a Gloebit enabled region.
• Fee details in transaction history record for purchaser
  • Added on 2016-04-08
  • The buyer/payer will now see the gross amount, fees, and net amount in the details for a transaction from their transaction history on Gloebit.
• 0G$ object purchase support
  • Added on 2016-04-27
  • We missed this one, but thanks to MobiusGrid and Zetamex reporting it, we’ve fixed it.

Feature Requests

This is not an exhaustive list, but rather, a short list of items we think a large portion of the community will want to know have been requested.

• Make currency symbol in the viewer consistently update to the G$ symbol upon entering Gloebit enabled regions.
  • Added
  • With Cinder’s Roxley’s help, we have added some parameters to the OpenSimExtras sent to a viewer upon entering a region. Hopefully soon, some viewers will make use of this and update the currency symbol.
• Add in support for upload fees, group creation fees, etc.
  • Added on 2016-04-08
• Make the buy currency button in the viewer work on regions where the GMM is not enabled grid wide.
• Update the gloebit balance automatically in the viewer after a user purchases gloebits (currently requires clicking on your balance).
  • The GMM delivers the url to Gloebit for us to deliver this alert to. We are not yet calling it from our server, but we will eventually add this feature.
• Make fee details visible to paying Gloebit account in their transaction history as this is required in some countries such as Germany.
  • Added on 2016-04-08

Reported Bugs

• FIXED 2016-02-11 - pgSQL issues
• FIXED 2016-02-18 - auto-debit scripted objects failing if description is blank
• FIXED 2016-04-08 - Gloebit module messaging agents in nearby regions
• FIXED 2016-04-26 - Mesh objects not displaying on GMM enabled region
• FIXED 2016-04-27 - Purchase of object for 0G$ fails