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 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.
Visitors is predicted to be even larger within the subsequent month as a result of the annual OSFest kicked off at the moment.
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. When you’ve got a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail us at [email protected] or [email protected] — that approach, your grid can be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each serps and customers.
Oh, the whole variety of lively grids was additionally a file 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 affords limitless free areas to all residents — so long as folks run them on their dwelling computer systems. They’ve a straightforward area installer right here. No surprise they’re the most important grid in OpenSim.
ZetaWorlds, however, affords two-by-two areas with 75,000 prims for €18.99 (US $21) per 30 days with different configuration choices additionally accessible. Groovyverse land costs begin at $25 per 30 days for a area that may be configured to be as massive as 16 by 16 customary 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, in line with Micro Expertise Companies CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Expertise 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 overall record of grids for which OutWorldz experiences stats is accessible 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 by means of a graphical interface and one-click set up function. They’ll 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 total grids or unoccupied areas to save lots of computing energy. Study right here methods to create and host a brand new Dreamgrid on your house pc utilizing the software program.
OutWorldz additionally affords 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 rapidly 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 individuals who are extra technically inclined, or every 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 helpful Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material in your OpenSim world or area right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now accessible
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we can be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe right here or fill out the shape beneath.
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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. Folks seeking to make new mates search for grids that have already got probably the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers on the lookout for 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 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 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 most well-liked grids are additionally not essentially probably the most lively.
Little Massive 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 you probably have a hypergrid teleport and wish to put up gates to the most well-liked grids or embody the most well-liked grids in an in-world listing. This record can also be an excellent place to start out 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 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 it’s best to arrange a stats web page in 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 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 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 to this point. The Kitely Market is the most important assortment of authorized content material accessible in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, personal grids. The directions for methods 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 degree for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost approach for OpenSim customers to purchase legit, authorized content material not solely affords 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 providers have diminished 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 affords further safety for content material creators is when the content material includes high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Talking of closed grids — the place customers should not 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 a couple of 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 below $3.
Neverworld additionally affords 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 affords a free area server to anybody who desires to self-host a area or grid on Neverworld. To take action, it’s essential 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 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 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 methods to register as an exhibitor, service provider, volunteer, promoter, supporter, and attender are situated on this hyperlink and you may observe the progress by way of 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 may get common updates on proceedings, and occurrences in regards to the occasion.
Twenty-nine corporations and people are sponsoring this 12 months’s occasion, which often takes place for 16 days and affords 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, 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 can be group excursions to exhibitor shops on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout the occasion interval.
The hypergrid handle 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 affords authentic and transformed freebies constructed by homeowners of the mall.
Right here you may get, without spending a dime, their latest creation the Pineview Townhouse — a really detailed home with a storage, kitchen, front room, den or research, 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 affords different freebie gadgets like authentic vegetation, furnishings, boats, English manor homes, pumpkin homes, flax flowers, and small retailers. You will get gadgets for all method of vacation and occasion decorations.
The hypergrid handle 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 mandatory preparations to run the grid with out interruptions regardless of the happenings.
The grid affords free land for residents, occasions each Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday, and retailers and a Superstore for these fascinated by life-style procuring. 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 can be nonetheless accessible to anybody prepared to pay a go to.
The hypergrid handle 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 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 common.
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 a good way for grid homeowners prepared to make recognized their fascinating places, gadgets, and works in OpenSim.
You may know in regards to the group’s upcoming visits or excursions by means of 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 want to host the group tour in your grid or area.
The hypergrid handle is grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Luxor.
Study 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 displays meant to coach and lift consciousness about totally different well being considerations. The shows and displays handle 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 crimson meat allergy.
You may click on on the hyperlink supplied above to teleport to the totally different exhibit places, then discover totally 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 means of the web site, Second Life, and its grid in OpenSim. The group gives details about numerous well being points and hyperlinks to totally different related services and products. This month, the group helps elevate consciousness in regards to 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 International Public Well being, New York College. In line 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 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 Massive Metropolis, Monarch Gardens, Nekolution, Previous Europa Metaverse, SiN Grid, and Troiwia, Vanessa.
If you already know 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 had been marked as suspended this month: Grownup Nation, Journey Bay, Costa Isla, Eenhgrid, Elords, Etheria Grid, Farm World A Sua Vida Digital, Completely satisfied Hour, Hasengang, Scorching Gorean Nights, IBK Grid, Impulse Grid, OpenSim UAb, OpenSims Life, Nice Retreat, Proxy, Starfleet, Candy Life, Troy, VR Playground, WaterSplash, Surprise, Youth Nation, Yow Now Free, and Yuriworld.
Typically, a grid adjustments its loginURI or web site handle — 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 present OpenSim grids. We are actually monitoring a complete of two,619 totally 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, each time accessible, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Energetic person counts embody hypergrid guests each time potential.
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 recognition. That is very helpful in case you are making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right 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
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 every other grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at [email protected].
