In the spirit of Medieval Europe we say, well met and welcome to =IcaruS= Realms! Our world can be your world – to explore, create and inspire!

Make =IcaruS= Realms Your Home World
Become a member of our =IcaruS= Realms community. Get inspired and have your own virtual home to build and create, for just yourself or to share with other explorers of the Metaverse. Visit other grids, then come back to relax, play and create in your own corner of the Metaverse.

For Explorers
Metaverse pioneers are invited to become members of our Icarian community, to immerse themselves, experience and share informative, fun, interactive, and historical themed displays and sites.

For Creators
Love to share your creativity? Enjoy playing with building blocks, experimenting with shapes, colours, textures? Fascinated with the world of lords, ladies, castles and ancient settlements? Join =IcaruS= Realms with a land owning account and begin building your piece of virtual history.

For Visitors
If you are already in a Metaverse grid, pay us a visit! Our hypergrid address is secondlife://icarus-grid.dyndns-server.com:8002/. Let us know your impressions; we’re always building new and fun things to experience in our part of the Metaverse.

Powered by OpenSim, =IcaruS= RealmS is hosted on ROBUST dedicated servers with Quadcore 3Ghz 64bit OS, 4GB memory and RAID-HDD. Hypergrid visitors to =IcaruS= RealmS will land in the main region of Athena, where they can explore the old Iron Age village, the Medieval town and dock, and =IcaruS= Castle. Hypergrid teleports have been placed to reach all OpenSim ranges in the Metaverse.

Become an Icarian – Be Inspired!

A Home Base in =IcaruS= RealmS
Metaverse pioneers, adventurers, and intrepid explorers – if you want to try out an OpenSim grid, you are welcome to join our adventure and establish a home base to jump to and fro, without the hassle of creating your own grid. We have placed hypergrid entry/exit points on some of the islands in our world which cover the 4096 ranges in the Metaverse. We invite you to join our =IcaruS= RealmS community. With your membership and a home base in our Icarian community, you can come and go throughout the Metaverse with ease.

Having a home base keeps you grounded. It’s a familiar place. After exploring strange new worlds, it’s nice to come back to relax, play and create. We at =IcaruS= are usually out and about in Second Life, in other grids and wherever we find something of interest in the Metaverse, but we always come back to home base in =IcaruS= RealmS.

History – Past, Present and Future
Of late, we have been on an historical kick on our public grid, bringing Prehistoric, Greek, Roman, Medieval and other influences into our builds. We also plan to develop some futuristic builds as well, similar to the more contemporary work we have done on our private grids.

=IcaruS= Quality
Maintaining a virtual world on our own servers is a constantly developing and ever-changing endeavor with a watchful eye on the next update to come and what improvements that may bring. Between updates, we always try to maximise the capabilities of the current version.

At =IcaruS=, we have never been in the business of quantity over quality. With =IcaruS= RealmS we continue that tradition. It is our philosophy to foster a select, well-knit, and vibrant community in =IcaruS= RealmS, always keeping growth within our means and on a solid, sustainable foundation.

• “My Viewer's Torus Is Bigger Than Yours” November 22, 2011 Items that appeared normal to us when we were using the Imprudence viewer, looked bigger or distorted with the SL Viewer 3 or a Third Party Viewer (TPV) like the Dolphin Viewer 3
• OpenSim Functions and INI November 18, 2011 With development moving forward at quite a pace on the OpenSim versions, we thought we might share a few points from our bookmarked pages that could be helpful for those working in OpenSim or developing for it. PacketPool - Use It Wisely For the first...
• New Metaverse Land Sale November 4, 2011 Stake a claim on your own virtual land in =IcaruS= RealmS!
• =IcaruS= RealmS Goes Public October 11, 2011 A Home Base in =IcaruS= RealmS Metaverse pioneers, adventurers, and intrepid explorers - if you want to try out an OpenSim grid, you are welcome to join our adventure and establish a home base to jump to and fro, without the hassle of creating your own g...
• Bayeux Tapestry in the Metaverse September 14, 2011 A reproduction of the Bayeux Tapestry is now showcased in =IcaruS= Realms. Fascinating juxtapositions about “multimedia”, “new media” and “social networking” are thrown into a “Back to the Future” spotlight....
• Metaverse Pioneers: What Are Your Top 3 OpenSim "Must Haves"? August 24, 2011 We are now looking to open our OpenSim grid and host public accounts. If you are a Metaverse pioneer interested in having an OpenSim account to explore =IcaruS= Realms and beyond, we would like to know what your top three “must have” features are tha...
• Viewers for Mesh Import in OpenSim May 11, 2011 UPDATE 8-Sep-2011: Sadly Kirstens Viewer is no longer being developed (further information on their website). Viewer Tests with OpenSim 0.7.1 and Diva r15402-b The latest release of OpenSim 0.7.1 and Diva Distro r15402-b is currently keeping us busy. ...
• Medieval in the Metaverse February 23, 2011 Photos from one of our current OpenSim projects (a medieval village) and reflections on a "typical" day in the metaverse.
• Terraforming Tips & Tricks + A Free Quad-Region Terrain File February 9, 2011 Following up on our previous post, Terraforming Tips and Tricks, we decided to write a little about creating terrains for a quadregion. The process is similar, it just takes more planning and thought. There are some tools we mentioned previously, that w...
• Terraforming Tips & Tricks December 20, 2010 “Painting in 3D” is an incredible experience in Second Life (tm) and OpenSim. We thought it might be worth sharing a few tricks and tips.