OpenSim land space has handed 130,000 commonplace 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 document. The overall variety of areas grew by over 2,000 over the previous month. Registered customers additionally elevated, by greater than 5,000, and lively customers elevated by greater than 800.
Site visitors is anticipated to be even greater within the subsequent month as a result of the annual OSFest kicked off today.
We are actually monitoring a complete of two,619 OpenSim grids, 430 of which have been lively and 270 of which revealed their statistics this month. The remainder don’t have accessible public stats pages. You probably have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e mail us at david@hypergridbusiness.com or maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that method, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each engines like google and customers.
Oh, the entire variety of lively grids was additionally a document 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 whole, 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 presents limitless free areas to all residents — so long as folks run them on their house computer systems. They have an easy region installer here. No surprise they’re the biggest grid in OpenSim.
ZetaWorlds, alternatively, presents two-by-two areas with 75,000 prims for €18.99 (US $21) per thirty days with other configuration options also available. Groovyverse land prices begin at $25 per thirty days for a area that may be configured to be as massive as 16 by 16 commonplace areas. Each grids additionally supply free land parcels to residents.
DreamGrid has to this point recorded a complete of three,435 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched since DreamGrid began, based on Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Expertise Companies owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
Our stats additionally don’t embrace most of the grids operating on DreamGrid since these are usually personal grids.
The overall record of grids for which OutWorldz experiences 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 total grids or unoccupied areas to save lots of computing energy. Be taught 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 information — which you’ll load to your grid simply and with little effort.
OpenSim is a free open-source, digital world platform, that’s much 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 cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or some other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
A listing 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 publication is now accessible
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will likely be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You possibly can subscribe here or fill out the shape beneath.
High 25 grids by lively customers
On the subject of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals trying to make new pals search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential clients. Occasion organizers in search of the largest viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,108 lively customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 3,568 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,196 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,116 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,647 lively customers
- Piggy Bank Grid World: 1,493 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,479 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,283 lively customers
- AviTron: 1,121 lively customers
- Moonrose: 1,091 lively customers
- Neverworld: 998 lively customers
- Exo-Life: 992 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 858 lively customers
- Trianon World: 829 lively customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 787 lively customers
- Kitely: 743 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 613 lively customers
- Littlefield: 516 lively customers
- Barefoot Dreamers: 516 lively customers
- Craft World: 508 lively customers
- DreamNation: 456 lively customers
- ProxyNet: 448 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 438 lively customers
- German World Grid: 436 lively customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 436 lively customers
The lively record relies on lively, distinctive 30-day person login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. These grids that don’t report their numbers is likely to be simply as well-liked, however we wouldn’t know. The preferred grids are additionally not essentially essentially the most lively.
Little Big City is that this month’s biggest gainer within the variety of lively customers with 406 new lively 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 lively person stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is beneficial you probably have a hypergrid teleport and need to put up gates to the most well-liked grids or embrace the most well-liked grids in an in-world listing. This record can also be place to begin if you wish to open up new shops, maintain occasions, or are simply in search of locations to go to.
Eureka World registered the very 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 greater 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 presently 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 up to now. The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material accessible 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, practically 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 pink space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed stage for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost method for OpenSim customers to purchase respectable, authorized content material not solely presents creators gross sales alternatives that they wouldn’t have in any other case however reduces the necessity for pirated content material, much like the way in which that Netflix and different streaming companies have decreased the quantity of unlawful video streaming.
As well as, limiting 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 presents extra safety for content material creators is when the content material includes high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Talking of closed grids — the place customers will not be capable of 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 another choice for OpenSim grids and does assist hypergrid consumers. The location presently has a couple of dozen objects on the market to each residents and hypergridders. It’s a place for sourcing free and intensely low-cost objects since most are priced at beneath $3.
Neverworld additionally presents 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 informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Neverworld additionally presents a free area server to anybody who needs to self-host a area or grid on Neverworld. To take action, you should 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 1000’s of individuals 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 ground continues to be open for anybody keen 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 may observe 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 may get common updates on proceedings, and occurrences in regards to the occasion.
Twenty-nine firms and people are sponsoring this year’s event, which often takes place for 16 days and presents greater than 90 hours of stay performances and excursions of reveals and service provider shops. Over 140 commonplace area equivalents spanning a complete space of 9 sq. kilometers have been put aside for the varied exhibitions, expos, performances, shows, group and particular person excursions, and conferences.
Along with sponsors, grid homeowners, builders, and retailers exhibiting their objects, there are a bunch 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 will likely be group excursions to exhibitor shops on Mondays and Wednesdays in the course of 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 purchasing space Masala Al Kahov, translated in English as “want upon a star,” has launched on Genesis RolePlay grid. It presents authentic and transformed freebies constructed by homeowners of the mall.
Right here you may get, without cost, their latest creation the Pineview Townhouse — a really detailed home with a storage, kitchen, front room, den or examine, bed room, lavatory, 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 presents different freebie objects like authentic crops, furnishings, boats, English manor homes, pumpkin homes, flax flowers, and small outlets. You will 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 essential preparations to run the grid with out interruptions regardless of the happenings.
The grid presents free land for residents, occasions each Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday, and outlets and a Superstore for these taken with way of life purchasing. It additionally runs an open social network for anybody keen to hitch and radio streams that broadcast for twenty-four hours every day.
Littlefield held September 11 memorial
The Memorial Area in Littlefield grid hosted the September 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 can be nonetheless accessible to anybody keen to pay a go to.
The hypergrid tackle is lfgrid.com:8002:September 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 often 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 fascinating locations across the hypergrid. The occasions are all deliberate with the host grid homeowners and it’s an effective way for grid homeowners keen to make recognized their fascinating places, objects, and works in OpenSim.
You possibly can 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.
Find out about well being and incapacity points on the Healthinfo Island and Digital Potential grid
Virtual Ability’s Healthinfo Island region located in Second Life now has eight displays and exhibits meant to coach and lift consciousness about completely different well being issues. The shows and reveals tackle to obstructive sleep apnea, animal zoonotic illnesses, managing disappointment, dealing with intense feelings, rhabdomyolysis, inflammatory bowel illness and Irritable bowel syndrome, Argh emotional meltdown, and pink meat allergy.
You possibly can click on on the hyperlink supplied 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 Potential 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 and products. 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, Faculty 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’ll 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 of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e mail us at david@hypergridbusiness.com or maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
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, e 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,619 completely different publicly-accessible grids, 430 of which have been lively this month, and 270 of which revealed their statistics.
All area counts on this record are, every time accessible, when it comes to commonplace area equivalents. Lively person counts embrace hypergrid guests every time doable.
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 reputation. That is very helpful in case you are making a hyperport.
You possibly can see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the way in which 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 some other grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at david@hypergridbusiness.com.
