Reactiongrid takes realXtend into production

Reactiongrid is the first commercial virtual worlds hosting company to offer realXtend technology. After a testing phase the results were so good that realXtend is now being taken into live production environment for use with it's first customers.

After initial testing phase, Reactiongrid is now taking realXtend into production. The tests were run during February and early March and the results were encouraging. 

Reactiongrid has been offering Opensim hosting since 2008 using the Microsoft technology stack. It is encouraging that the company is not verticalizing it's solution set - this lends credence to the idea that the 3d Web is not a homogenous grid (like a closed commercial grid), but a collection of many grids all connected together with "Hypergrid". It is a step in the right direction, and we look forward to the day we can seamlessly move between a realXtend region and an Opensim region using our favourite viewer, and without having to mess around with logins.

While the current version of the realXtend  only supports "standalone" regions (ie. not connected to mainland) it is currently  possible to teleport between regions. We think this is an acceptable compromise until the next generation of realXtend regions can be fully grid-mode enabled.

The realXtend product introduced many new capabilities, including integrated voice, skype calls, web page rendering, 3D mesh based avatars and 3D mesh objects. One of the killer features is the ability to import objects from commercial 3d design environments such as 3DS Max.