Open Source Virtual Reality platform High Fidelity this week announced their support for DigitalOcean Spaces, an object storage solution that fits in with the way High Fidelity works.
Now if you’re not familiar with how High Fidelity works then the concept at play here will sound a tad confusing. In High Fidelity you don’t upload content in the way that you do with Second Life or OpenSim, your content is hosted on a server and this is where a solution such as DigitalOcean Spaces fits in.
The PR Newswire press release informs us :
“High Fidelity is envisioned as a distributed network running on a wide mix of hardware,” says High Fidelity CEO, Philip Rosedale. “We see support for DigitalOcean Spaces as a strategic advantage for us and our user community as users embrace deployment of their creations in virtual reality on the cloud.”
DigitalOcean Spaces isn’t free, which should not be a surprise as hosting content has associated costs, their website does gives us information on where pricing starts :
Pricing starts at $5 per month and includes 250 GB of storage and 1 TB of outbound data transferred per month.
Additional storage is available at $0.02 per GB stored, and additional bandwidth at $0.01 per GB of data transferred. Uploads to Spaces are free.
You can get two months for free to try it out and there are other plans available, depending upon your storage and bandwidth requirements.
DigitalOcean Spaces also allows you to set whether your content can be read by everyone, or just yourself, which will of course have implications for usage costs.
To read more about how you can use DigitalOcean Spaces with High Fidelity go here : https://docs.highfidelity.com/create-and-explore/start-working-in-your-sandbox/digital-ocean/digital-ocean-spaces
Obviously DigitalOcean Spaces isn’t just a product that can be used with High Fidelity, but it does look like it’s a good fit for High Fidelity.