A closed, safe grid
Alife Virtual is not hypergrid and never will be. Your builds stay here, in a grid with its own economy, so content you create is protected.
For OSgrid residents
OSgrid is closing.
OSgrid is closing.
Bring your region home to Alife Virtual.
Alife Virtual is a closed, safe grid with its own economy, so your content is protected. It is not hypergrid, and it never will be. We will load your OSgrid region onto an Alife sim for free. That sim is free until 1 January 2027, then the regular empty sim price applies, from $10/month.
Request your free moveFree OAR upload
Send us your OSgrid OAR. We load it onto an Alife sim at no charge. The sim itself is free until 1 January 2027, then from $10/month for a standard empty sim.
Withdraw C$ to PayPal
Creators can sell in our marketplace and withdraw C$ to PayPal at 500 C$ = 1 USD, on the withdraw page.
How it works
- Sign up with your email and confirm it, or log in if you already have an Alife Virtual account. We only accept requests from accounts with a verified email.
- Fill in the request form on this page: the name of your OSgrid region, the sim size you want, a link to your OAR file, and any notes.
- Upload the OAR to Dropbox, Google Drive, WeTransfer or a similar service and paste the share link. We do not auto-create the sim; our team loads the archive for you.
- We place your region on an Alife sim and tell you when it is ready. The sim is free until 1 January 2027. After that, the regular empty sim price for its size applies, from $10/month for a standard 256×256 m, 10,000-prim sim. We will contact you before then so you can keep the same sim.
Request your move
To request a move you need an Alife Virtual account with a confirmed email.
After you confirm your email and log in, you will return to this form.
Frequently asked questions
Is Alife Virtual on the hypergrid?
No. Alife Virtual is a closed, safe grid with its own economy, and it will never be hypergrid. That is a deliberate choice: it protects the content you build and sell, and it keeps C$ as a real currency you can withdraw to PayPal.
What is included, and is there a size limit for the OAR?
There is no megabyte cap on this form, because you send the file by a share link rather than uploading it here. Typical OpenSim OAR archives are fine. Very large (multi-gigabyte) files are also welcome via WeTransfer, Google Drive or Dropbox; if a load takes longer, we will work with you. Please keep the share link available until we confirm the region is loaded.
What transfers in the OAR?
The terrain, parcels, objects and region settings stored in the OAR come across. Your OSgrid avatar, inventory and money do not. You use an Alife Virtual avatar on this grid (create one on the AVATAR page if you do not have one yet). Scripts usually keep working. Content you did not create, or that is marked no-copy, may be missing or restricted after the load — please only include work you have the right to move.
What about other people's creations?
Please respect creator permissions. If a build includes items you do not have permission to copy or transfer, those items may not appear, or we may need to leave them out. When in doubt, describe it in the notes and we will check with you before loading.
What happens on 1 January 2027?
The complimentary period ends. From that date the regular empty sim price for your chosen size applies: $10/month for a standard 256×256 m, 10,000-prim sim, then $10 more per month for each larger size step, up to $60/month for a 1,536×1,536 m, 60,000-prim sim, matching our empty sim shop. Yearly plans are also available (10 months billed for 12). We will contact you before 1 January 2027 so you can keep the same sim or let us know if you no longer need it. This page does not charge a card, and we do not auto-provision or auto-renew from this request.
Can I withdraw C$ to PayPal?
Yes. Creators can withdraw C$ to PayPal at 500 C$ = 1 USD on the withdraw page.
Can I bring more than one region?
Yes. Submit one request per region, with its own OAR link. Use a verified-email account for each request.
Which viewer should I use?
Alife Virtual has its own viewer. Firestorm also works: use the build for other grids, add the grid http://www.alifevirtual.com:8002/ and log in there.