OpenSim land space has handed 130,000 customary area equivalents this month, for a brand new all-time excessive. That is the second month in a row that OpenSim has set a land file. The entire variety of areas grew by over 2,000 over the previous month. Registered customers additionally elevated, by greater than 5,000, and energetic customers elevated by greater than 800.
Visitors is anticipated to be even increased within the subsequent month as a result of the annual OSFest kicked off today.
We are actually monitoring a complete of two,620 OpenSim grids, 431 of which have been energetic and 269 of which revealed their statistics this month. The remainder would not have accessible public stats pages. If in case you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail us at [email protected] or [email protected] — that means, your grid shall be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and customers.
Oh, the full variety of energetic grids was additionally a file excessive this month.
OSgrid, Wolf Territories Grid, and Kitely have been the three largest grids by land space this month, as they’ve been for some time now.
OSgrid, a free-to-connect, non-profit world, now has an equal of 29,770 standard-sized areas in complete, adopted by Wolf Territories Grid with 25,504 areas, Kitely with 18,301, ZetaWorlds with 10,386, and Alternate Metaverse with 9,949 areas.
OSgrid provides limitless free areas to all residents — so long as folks run them on their dwelling computer systems. They have an easy region installer here. No surprise they’re the most important grid in OpenSim.
ZetaWorlds, however, provides two-by-two areas with 75,000 prims for €18.99 (US $21) per 30 days with other configuration options also available. Groovyverse land prices begin at $25 per 30 days for a area that may be configured to be as large as 16 by 16 customary areas. Each grids additionally provide free land parcels to residents.
DreamGrid has to date recorded a complete of three,435 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched since DreamGrid began, in accordance with Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Know-how Companies owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
Our stats additionally don’t embody most of the grids operating on DreamGrid since these are typically personal grids.
The entire record of grids for which OutWorldz stories stats is available here. Anybody can simply add their grid to this record from the identical web page.
With the free-to-use DreamGrid software program, customers can simply create digital worlds by way of a graphical interface and one-click set up function. They’ll additionally use it to simply and shortly handle their grids, together with including new areas, banning customers, deleting areas, auto restarting, monitoring utilization stats, and shutting down whole grids or unoccupied areas to save lots of computing energy. Study right here how to create and host a new Dreamgrid on your home computer utilizing the software program.
OutWorldz also offers free OARs — full area recordsdata — which you’ll be able to load to your grid simply and with little effort.
OpenSim is a free open-source, digital world platform, that’s just like Second Life and permits folks with no technical expertise to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their very own servers without spending a dime utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or every other distribution, whereas business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim hosting providers is here. Obtain the recommended Firestorm viewer here and discover out where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now obtainable
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we shall be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You’ll be able to subscribe here or fill out the shape beneath.
High 25 grids by energetic customers
On the subject of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks seeking to make new mates search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,108 energetic customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 3,568 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,196 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,116 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,647 energetic customers
- Piggy Bank Grid World: 1,493 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 1,283 energetic customers
- AviTron: 1,121 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 1,091 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 998 energetic customers
- Exo-Life: 992 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 858 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 829 energetic customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 787 energetic customers
- Kitely: 743 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 613 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 516 energetic customers
- Barefoot Dreamers: 516 energetic customers
- Craft World: 508 energetic customers
- DreamNation: 456 energetic customers
- ProxyNet: 448 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 438 energetic customers
- German World Grid: 436 energetic customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 436 energetic customers
- Vida Dupla: 406 energetic customers
The energetic record relies on energetic, distinctive 30-day consumer login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. These grids that don’t report their numbers could be simply as fashionable, however we wouldn’t know. The most well-liked grids are additionally not essentially essentially the most energetic.
Little Big City is that this month’s biggest gainer within the variety of energetic customers with 406 new energetic customers, adopted by the brand new Herederos Grid with 324 actives, Eureka World and GBG World each with 302, and Trianon World with 272.
The energetic consumer stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is helpful when you have a hypergrid teleport and wish to put up gates to the preferred grids or embody the preferred grids in an in-world listing. This record can also be a great place to begin if you wish to open up new shops, maintain occasions, or are simply on the lookout for locations to go to.
Eureka World registered the best variety of customers this month with 393 customers, adopted by OSgrid with 342, AvatarLife with 167, Kitely with 132, and the brand new Herederos Grid with 90 newly registered customers.
Right here’s some data on how and why you should set up a stats page for your grid. Not all grids want a stats web page — particularly grids that aren’t open to the general public like college grids, personal firm grids, small household grids, and so forth. From prior surveys, this darkish metaverse of OpenSim grids is considerably larger than the one we learn about, as a result of these grids don’t want to advertise themselves, and we by no means hear about them.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 20,180 product listings in Kitely Market containing 39,935 product variations, 34,821 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 598 OpenSim grids to this point. The Kitely Market is the most important assortment of authorized content material obtainable in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, personal grids. The instructions for how to configure the Kitely Market for closed grids are here.
As seen from the above chart, almost all the expansion in Kitely Market has been in content material that may be exported to different grids — that’s the inexperienced space within the chart. The crimson space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost means for OpenSim customers to purchase authentic, authorized content material not solely provides creators gross sales alternatives that they wouldn’t have in any other case however reduces the necessity for pirated content material, just like the best way that Netflix and different streaming providers have diminished the quantity of unlawful video streaming.
As well as, proscribing content material to closed grids does little to cease piracy. Most stolen content material is ripped from Second Life, the unique closed grid. The one time that being on a closed grid provides extra safety for content material creators is when the content material entails high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Talking of closed grids — the place customers usually are not in a position to teleport to different grids — the largest such grid, Tag, additionally has its on-line marketplace. {The marketplace} lists 29,950 objects each on the market and free.
Neverworld Grid Marketplace is an alternative choice for OpenSim grids and does assist hypergrid consumers. The location at the moment has a couple of dozen objects on the market to each residents and hypergridders. It’s a place for sourcing free and very low cost objects since most are priced at beneath $3.
Neverworld additionally provides free digital land to residents who can then arrange store and craft or herald digital objects on the market or give away on the market. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in dimension and may assist as much as 5,000 prims, grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Neverworld additionally provides a free area server to anybody who needs to self-host a area or grid on Neverworld. To take action, it’s worthwhile to obtain and set up the server software program in your machine, make sure the router ports are open as required, and run the .bin file as per directions on this hyperlink then arrange a area.
OpenSim grid information
OSFest 2023 kicks off
This yr’s annual OpenSim’s largest hypergrid occasion OpenSim Fest — which attracts hundreds of contributors together with sponsors, builders, exhibitors, artists, musicians, retailers, grid homeowners, and OpenSim fanatics from across the hypergrid — kicks off at 9.00 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, September 15. The full calendar of events is located on this link.
The ultimate construct testing was accomplished efficiently on September 14, however the flooring remains to be open for anybody prepared to volunteer or sponsor the occasion. Details on how to register as an exhibitor, merchant, volunteer, promoter, supporter, and attender are located on this link and you’ll comply with the progress through the host’s Discord group here. OSFest additionally runs a YouTube page, Facebook page, Twitter page, and OpenSimWorld page from the place you will get common updates on proceedings, and occurrences in regards to the occasion.
Twenty-nine corporations and people are sponsoring this year’s event, which normally takes place for 16 days and provides greater than 90 hours of reside performances and excursions of displays and service provider shops. Over 140 customary area equivalents spanning a complete space of 9 sq. kilometers have been put aside for the varied exhibitions, expos, performances, displays, group and particular person excursions, and conferences.
Along with sponsors, grid homeowners, builders, and retailers exhibiting their objects, there are a number of occasions deliberate together with a 10th anniversary of The Golden Touch theater at 11.00 a.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, September 16 at Golden Sky Area of the Utopia Sky Grid the place the theater is hosted. There additionally shall be group excursions to exhibitor shops on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout the occasion interval.
The hypergrid tackle to the Welcome area is grid.opensimfest.com:8022:hg-welcome.
Want Upon a Star on the Grid Genesis Roleplay
The procuring space Masala Al Kahov, translated in English as “want upon a star,” has launched on Genesis RolePlay grid. It provides unique and reworked freebies constructed by homeowners of the mall.
Right here you will get, without spending a dime, their latest creation the Pineview Townhouse — a really detailed home with a storage, kitchen, lounge, den or examine, bed room, rest room, 3D home windows, and a deck. The gorgeous mesh is full perm copy, modify, and switch and you need to use it to beautify your grid or areas.
Masala Al Kahov additionally provides different freebie objects like unique crops, furnishings, boats, English manor homes, pumpkin homes, flax flowers, and small outlets. You may get objects for all method of vacation and occasion decorations.
The hypergrid tackle is grid.genesis-roleplay.org:8002:Masala Al Kohav.
I Love You Grid up and operating regardless of devastating earthquake
Final week’s Marrakesh earthquake has left an enormous loss and disruptions together with to energy, broadband, and telephony connectivity however I Love You Grid — whose one of many homeowners, DebzFox, resides in Morocco’s capital — has announced that it has made mandatory preparations to run the grid with out interruptions regardless of the happenings.
The grid provides free land for residents, occasions each Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday, and outlets and a Superstore for these fascinated about life-style procuring. It additionally runs an open social network for anybody prepared to affix and radio streams that broadcast for twenty-four hours every day.
Littlefield held Sept. 11 memorial
The Memorial Area in Littlefield grid hosted the Sept. 11 tragedy memorial, because it does yearly on September 11 of this month. The area hosts a reproduction of the Tower of Voices for Flight 93 amongst many different objects which might be nonetheless accessible to anybody prepared to pay a go to.
The hypergrid tackle is lfgrid.com:8002:Sept. 11 Memorial.
HG Safari group to tour the Luxor area in Wolf Territories Grid
HG Safari social group nonetheless continues to go to numerous OpenSim grids and can go to the Luxor area in Wolf Territories beginning at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, September 27, and can run for 2 hours as typical.
Members of the worldwide OpenSim tour group normally first meet on the HG Safari area on OSGrid at hg.osgrid.org:80:HG Safari then proceed to tour collectively and expertise, spotlight, and popularize attention-grabbing locations across the hypergrid. The occasions are all deliberate with the host grid homeowners and it’s a good way for grid homeowners prepared to make recognized their attention-grabbing places, objects, and works in OpenSim.
You’ll be able to know in regards to the group’s upcoming visits or excursions by way of its Facebook page, MeWe, and Discord group, and ship a message or notecard to Thirza Ember in case you are a grid or area proprietor who want to host the group tour in your grid or area.
The hypergrid tackle is grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor.
Study well being and incapacity points on the Healthinfo Island and Digital Capacity grid
Virtual Ability’s Healthinfo Island region located in Second Life now has eight displays and exhibits meant to teach and lift consciousness about completely different well being considerations. The shows and displays tackle to obstructive sleep apnea, animal zoonotic ailments, managing disappointment, dealing with intense feelings, rhabdomyolysis, inflammatory bowel illness and Irritable bowel syndrome, Argh emotional meltdown, and crimson meat allergy.
You’ll be able to click on on the hyperlink offered above to teleport to the completely different exhibit places, then discover completely different posters with their descriptions about every of the varied well being circumstances.
Digital Capacity is a US non-profit company with a mission to allow folks with a variety of disabilities and shares and creates consciousness on bodily inabilities and associated assist within the society by way of the web site, Second Life, and its grid in OpenSim. The group gives details about numerous well being points and hyperlinks to completely different related services. This month, the group helps raise awareness about the sepsis situation now that September is Sepsis Consciousness Month.
A survey of individuals with disabilities within the US states of Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada, and the Pacific Basin can also be being carried out by Robyn R Gershon, School of World Public Well being, New York College. In keeping with the group’s weblog, the survey will present data on how ADA Coordinators are serving to folks with disabilities of their native communities and the way they will additional be empowered to take action.
New grids
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Ansjela Grid, Ares World, Butschiland, CLC grid, Conectados Grid, Escape 2 Reality Grid, Genesis PR, Holo Neon, Humble Grid, Hypergrid City, Lailara Heya, Little Big City, Monarch Gardens, Nekolution, Old Europa Metaverse, SiN Grid, and Troiwia, Vanessa.
If you understand of any public grid that we’re lacking, please electronic mail us at [email protected] or [email protected].
Closed grids
After a grid has been inactive for 2 months, we mark it as suspended. Then, after it’s been suspended for a few months, we mark it as closed.
The next 25 grids have been marked as suspended this month: Adult Nation, Adventure Bay, Costa Isla, Eenhgrid, Elords, Etheria Grid, Farm World A Sua Vida Virtual, Happy Hour, Hasengang, Hot Gorean Nights, IBK Grid, Impulse Grid, OpenSim UAb, OpenSims Life, Pleasant Retreat, Proxy, Starfleet, Sweet Life, Troy, VR Playground, WaterSplash, Wonder, Youth Nation, Yow Now Free, and Yuriworld.
Typically, a grid adjustments its loginURI or web site tackle — if that’s the case, electronic mail us and tell us and we’ll replace our database.
High 40 grids by land space
The record beneath is a small subset of current OpenSim grids. We are actually monitoring a complete of two,584 completely different publicly-accessible grids, 419 of which have been energetic this month, and 268 of which revealed their statistics.
All area counts on this record are, every time obtainable, by way of customary area equivalents. Energetic consumer counts embody hypergrid guests every time potential.
Many college, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The raw data for this month’s report is here. A list of all active grids is here. And here’s a list of all the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by recognition. That is very helpful in case you are making a hyperport.
You’ll be able to see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 29,770 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 25,504 areas
- Kitely: 18,301 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 10,386 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 9,949 areas
- Discovery Grid: 5,361 areas
- Groovy Verse: 4,432 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,583 areas
- TheKaz Grid: 2,110 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,480 areas
- German World Grid: 1,222 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 960 areas
- GBG World: 950 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 875 areas
- AviWorlds: 836 areas
- Kinky Haven: 653 areas
- Piggy Bank Grid World: 626 areas
- ArtDestiny: 625 areas
- Tomi’s World: 625 areas
- Littlefield: 502 areas
- Furry World: 473 areas
- GorGrid: 428 areas
- 4Creative: 413 areas
- Craft World: 396 areas
- DreamNation: 381 areas
- AvatarLife: 337 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 294 areas
- Neverworld: 268 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
- Soul Grid: 240 areas
- AviTron: 209 areas
- Counter Earth: 189 areas
- Adreans-World: 164 areas
- Outworldz: 154 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 149 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 144 areas
- German World: 144 areas
- GerGrid: 140 areas
Are you aware of every other grids which might be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at [email protected].
