OpenSim land space has handed 130,000 normal 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 whole 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 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 lively and 269 of which revealed their statistics this month. The remaining do not need accessible public stats pages. If in case you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e mail us at [email protected] or [email protected] — that method, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each search engines like google and yahoo and customers.
Oh, the full 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 dwelling computer systems. They have an easy region installer here. No surprise they’re the biggest grid in OpenSim.
ZetaWorlds, then again, presents two-by-two areas with 75,000 prims for €18.99 (US $21) monthly with other configuration options also available. Groovyverse land prices begin at $25 monthly for a area that may be configured to be as huge as 16 by 16 normal areas. Each grids additionally provide free land parcels to residents.
DreamGrid has thus far recorded a complete of three,435 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched since DreamGrid began, in line with Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Know-how Providers owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
Our stats additionally don’t embrace lots of the grids operating on DreamGrid since these are typically personal grids.
The whole checklist of grids for which OutWorldz studies stats is available here. Anybody can simply add their grid to this checklist from the identical web page.
With the free-to-use DreamGrid software program, customers can simply create digital worlds by means of a graphical interface and one-click set up function. They will additionally use it to simply and rapidly handle their grids, together with including new areas, banning customers, deleting areas, auto restarting, monitoring utilization stats, and shutting down complete grids or unoccupied areas to avoid wasting 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 recordsdata — which you’ll 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 abilities to rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical abilities can run OpenSim worlds on their very own servers without cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or another distribution, whereas industrial 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 publication is now out there
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 may subscribe here or fill out the shape beneath.
Prime 25 grids by lively customers
Relating to 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 searching for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 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
- 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
- Vida Dupla: 406 lively customers
The lively checklist is predicated on lively, distinctive 30-day person login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. These grids that don’t report their numbers could be simply as widespread, however we wouldn’t know. The most well-liked grids are additionally not essentially essentially the most lively.
Little Big City is that this month’s best 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 helpful when you have a hypergrid teleport and wish to put up gates to the preferred grids or embrace the preferred grids in an in-world listing. This checklist can be a great place to begin if you wish to open up new shops, maintain occasions, or are simply searching 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 info 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 faculty 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 find out 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 present 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 so far. The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material out there 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 purple 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 authentic, 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, just like the best way that Netflix and different streaming providers have lowered 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 entails high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Talking of closed grids — the place customers are usually not 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 an alternative choice for OpenSim grids and does help hypergrid customers. The positioning at present has a number 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 below $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 measurement and might help as much as 5,000 prims, grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Neverworld additionally presents a free area server to anybody who desires 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 1000’s of individuals together with sponsors, builders, exhibitors, artists, musicians, retailers, grid homeowners, and OpenSim lovers 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 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 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 will get common updates on proceedings, and occurrences concerning the occasion.
Twenty-nine corporations and people are sponsoring this year’s event, which often takes place for 16 days and presents greater than 90 hours of reside performances and excursions of reveals and service provider shops. Over 140 normal 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 deal with to the Welcome area is grid.opensimfest.com:8022:hg-welcome.
Want Upon a Star on the Grid Genesis Roleplay
The buying space Masala Al Kahov, translated in English as “want upon a star,” has launched on Genesis RolePlay grid. It presents authentic and reworked freebies constructed by homeowners of the mall.
Right here you will get, without cost, their latest creation the Pineview Townhouse — a really detailed home with a storage, kitchen, front room, den or examine, bed room, rest room, 3D home windows, and a deck. The attractive mesh is full perm copy, modify, and switch and you should use it to beautify your grid or areas.
Masala Al Kahov additionally presents different freebie objects like authentic vegetation, 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 deal with 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 vital 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 fascinated about way of life buying. It additionally runs an open social network for anybody prepared to hitch 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 duplicate of the Tower of Voices for Flight 93 amongst many different objects which can be nonetheless accessible to anybody prepared to pay a go to.
The hypergrid deal with 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 standard.
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 prepared to make identified their fascinating places, objects, and works in OpenSim.
You may know concerning the group’s upcoming visits or excursions by means of its Facebook page, MeWe, and Discord group, and ship a message or notecard to Thirza Ember if you’re a grid or area proprietor who wish to host the group tour in your grid or area.
The hypergrid deal with is grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor.
Find out about well being and incapacity points on the Healthinfo Island and Digital Capability 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 issues. The shows and reveals deal with to obstructive sleep apnea, animal zoonotic ailments, managing unhappiness, dealing with intense feelings, rhabdomyolysis, inflammatory bowel illness and Irritable bowel syndrome, Argh emotional meltdown, and purple meat allergy.
You may 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 situations.
Digital Capability 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 help within the society by means 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 be being performed by Robyn R Gershon, Faculty of World Public Well being, New York College. In response to the group’s weblog, the survey will present info 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 e 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 modifications its loginURI or web site deal with — if that’s the case, e mail us and tell us and we’ll replace our database.
Prime 40 grids by land space
The checklist beneath is a small subset of present OpenSim grids. We are actually monitoring a complete of two,584 completely different publicly-accessible grids, 419 of which have been lively this month, and 268 of which revealed their statistics.
All area counts on this checklist are, every time out there, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Energetic person counts embrace hypergrid guests every time potential.
Many faculty, 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 if you’re making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting 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
Have you learnt of another grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at [email protected].
