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 report. The entire 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.
Visitors is predicted to be even greater within the subsequent month as a result of the annual OSFest kicked off at this time.
We are actually monitoring a complete of two,619 OpenSim grids, 430 of which had been lively and 270 of which printed their statistics this month. The remaining wouldn’t have accessible public stats pages. 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 whole variety of lively grids was additionally a report excessive this month.
OSgrid, Wolf Territories Grid, and Kitely had 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 gives limitless free areas to all residents — so long as individuals run them on their residence computer systems. They’ve a simple area installer right here. No surprise they’re the biggest grid in OpenSim.
ZetaWorlds, alternatively, gives two-by-two areas with 75,000 prims for €18.99 (US $21) monthly with different configuration choices additionally obtainable. Groovyverse land costs begin at $25 monthly for a area that may be configured to be as large as 16 by 16 customary areas. Each grids additionally supply free land parcels to residents.
DreamGrid has up to now recorded a complete of three,435 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched since DreamGrid began, in response to Micro Know-how Companies CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Know-how Companies owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
Our stats additionally don’t embody lots of the grids operating on DreamGrid since these are typically personal grids.
The entire record of grids for which OutWorldz studies stats is out there right 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 via 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 complete grids or unoccupied areas to save lots of computing energy. Study right here find out how to create and host a brand new Dreamgrid on your house laptop utilizing the software program.
OutWorldz additionally gives 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 individuals 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 some other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the really useful Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material on your OpenSim world or area right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now obtainable
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 right here or fill out the shape beneath.
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Prime 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 probably the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers in search of 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 Financial institution 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
Get together Vacation spot Grid: 858 lively customers
Trianon World: 829 lively customers
Jungle Associates 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
Light Hearth Grid: 436 lively customers
The lively record 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 is perhaps simply as well-liked, however we wouldn’t know. The preferred grids are additionally not essentially probably the most lively.
Little Huge Metropolis 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 favored hypergrid locations record, which is beneficial 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 very good place to start out 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 info on how and why it is best to arrange a stats web page on 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 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 thus far. The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material obtainable in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, personal grids. The directions for find out how to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right 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 stage for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost method for OpenSim customers to purchase reliable, authorized content material not solely gives creators gross sales alternatives that they wouldn’t have in any other case however reduces the necessity for pirated content material, just like the way in which that Netflix and different streaming providers 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 gives 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 aren’t capable of teleport to different grids — the largest such grid, Tag, additionally has its on-line market. {The marketplace} lists 29,950 gadgets each on the market and free.
Neverworld Grid Market is an alternative choice for OpenSim grids and does assist hypergrid buyers. The positioning presently has just a few dozen gadgets on the market to each residents and hypergridders. It’s a place for sourcing free and intensely low cost gadgets since most are priced at beneath $3.
Neverworld additionally gives free digital land to residents who can then arrange store and craft or usher in digital gadgets on the market or give away on the market. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in measurement and might assist as much as 5,000 prims, grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Neverworld additionally gives a free area server to anybody who desires to self-host a area or grid on Neverworld. To take action, you want 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 12 months’s annual OpenSim’s largest hypergrid occasion OpenSim Fest — which attracts hundreds 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 complete calendar of occasions is situated on this hyperlink.
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. Particulars on find out how to register as an exhibitor, service provider, volunteer, promoter, supporter, and attender are situated on this hyperlink and you’ll observe the progress through the host’s Discord group right here. OSFest additionally runs a YouTube web page, Fb web page, Twitter web page, and OpenSimWorld web page from the place you will get common updates on proceedings, and occurrences concerning the occasion.
Twenty-nine corporations and people are sponsoring this 12 months’s occasion, which normally takes place for 16 days and gives greater than 90 hours of dwell performances and excursions of reveals and service provider shops. Over 140 customary area equivalents spanning a complete space of 9 sq. kilometers have been put aside for the assorted exhibitions, expos, performances, shows, group and particular person excursions, and conferences.
Along with sponsors, grid homeowners, builders, and retailers exhibiting their gadgets, there are a bunch of occasions deliberate together with a tenth anniversary of The Golden Contact 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 through 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 gives authentic and transformed 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 research, bed room, lavatory, 3D home windows, and a deck. The attractive mesh is full perm copy, modify, and switch and you should utilize it to beautify your grid or areas.
Masala Al Kahov additionally gives different freebie gadgets like authentic crops, furnishings, boats, English manor homes, pumpkin homes, flax flowers, and small outlets. You will get gadgets 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 introduced that it has made essential preparations to run the grid with out interruptions regardless of the happenings.
The grid gives free land for residents, occasions each Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday, and outlets and a Superstore for these excited by way of life purchasing. It additionally runs an open social community for anybody prepared to affix and radio streams that broadcast for twenty-four hours every day.
Littlefield held 11th of September memorial
The Memorial Area in Littlefield grid hosted the 11th of September 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 gadgets which might be nonetheless accessible to anybody prepared to pay a go to.
The hypergrid tackle is lfgrid.com:8002:11th of September Memorial.
HG Safari group to tour the Luxor area in Wolf Territories Grid
HG Safari social group nonetheless continues to go to varied 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 normal.
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 fascinating 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 identified their fascinating places, gadgets, and works in OpenSim.
You possibly can know concerning the group’s upcoming visits or excursions via its Fb web page, MeWe, and Discord group, and ship a message or notecard to Thirza Ember in case you are a grid or area proprietor who wish 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 Capacity grid
Digital Capacity’s Healthinfo Island area situated in Second Life now has eight shows and reveals meant to teach and lift consciousness about completely different well being considerations. The shows and reveals 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 possibly can 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 assorted well being circumstances.
Digital Capacity is a US non-profit company with a mission to allow individuals with a variety of disabilities and shares and creates consciousness on bodily inabilities and associated assist within the society via the web site, Second Life, and its grid in OpenSim. The group supplies details about varied well being points and hyperlinks to completely different related services. This month, the group helps elevate consciousness concerning 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 International Public Well being, New York College. In accordance with the group’s weblog, the survey will present info on how ADA Coordinators are serving to individuals with disabilities of their native communities and the way they will additional be empowered to take action.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: Ansjela Grid, Ares World, Butschiland, CLC grid, Conectados Grid, Escape 2 Actuality Grid, Genesis PR, Holo Neon, Humble Grid, Hypergrid Metropolis, Lailara Heya, Little Huge Metropolis, Monarch Gardens, Nekolution, Outdated Europa Metaverse, SiN Grid, and Troiwia, Vanessa.
If you already know 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 had been marked as suspended this month: Grownup Nation, Journey Bay, Costa Isla, Eenhgrid, Elords, Etheria Grid, Farm World A Sua Vida Digital, Pleased Hour, Hasengang, Scorching Gorean Nights, IBK Grid, Impulse Grid, OpenSim UAb, OpenSims Life, Nice Retreat, Proxy, Starfleet, Candy Life, Troy, VR Playground, WaterSplash, Marvel, Youth Nation, Yow Now Free, and Yuriworld.
Generally, a grid modifications its loginURI or web site tackle — if that’s the case, e mail us and tell us and we’ll replace our database.
Prime 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 had been lively this month, and 270 of which printed their statistics.
All area counts on this record are, every time obtainable, by way of customary area equivalents. Energetic person counts embody hypergrid guests every time attainable.
Many college, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked knowledge for this month’s report is right here. An inventory of all lively grids is right here. And here’s a record of all of 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 historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, relationship 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
Digital Worlds Grid: 916 areas
third Rock Grid: 875 areas
AviWorlds: 836 areas
Kinky Haven: 653 areas
Piggy Financial institution 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 Digital 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 might be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at [email protected].
