OpenSim land space has this month gone up by a big 6,622 customary area equivalents due to new grids and a big enlargement at different grids. All public OpenSim grids now have a complete of 110,458 standard-sized areas in digital land space.
Talking of recent grids, the full variety of public OpenSim grids that we observe is now as much as 418, a document excessive. That is regardless that we’ve lately reclassified many grids as personal as a result of they don’t have web sites or social media pages or different indicators that they’re open to the general public.
Please ship us a hyperlink to your grid’s public web page via a direct electronic mail or this form in case you discover that your grid is marked as personal and also you need it to be again on our lists.
Energetic numbers grew barely, by 444 lively month-to-month customers, however the precise progress might be fairly a bit larger. That’s as a result of AviTron stopped reporting their statistics this month, and, final month, that they had greater than 3,000 actives. If AviTron had reported their stats this month, our lively customers numbers would have proven vital progress this month.
The AviTron customers are most likely nonetheless there — although their lively person numbers have fallen by almost 1,000 over the previous three months. The grid additionally lately turned off the hypergrid connectivity.
Hypergrid Enterprise editor Maria Korolov has beforehand really useful that folks don’t use an AviTron account as their major hypergrid avatar as a result of the grid proprietor has been recognized to close down the grid fully with no prior warning.
“He’s additionally repatedly turned hypergrid connectivity on and off on a whim,” she stated. “That creates havoc for anybody attempting to run a enterprise or manage occasions.”
For customers, which means that individuals who rely upon hypergrid buddy lists or landmarks will lose entry to these, and in the event that they rely upon their avatar inventories, they may lose entry to these as nicely. Korolov recommends that customers use an account on OSgrid or Kitely or one other steady grid for his or her major avatar and never preserve any cash or objects of their AviTron avatars that they’re afraid to lose.
We are actually monitoring a complete of two,527 OpenSim grids, 418 are lively public grids, out of which 287 made their stats out there for this month’s report.
In abstract, AvatarLife registered the very best variety of customers this month or 422, whereas Piggy Bank Grid World bought the very best variety of lively customers or 331, and or 5,184, in a month since we lastly reported these stats. OSgrid, Kitely, and TAG grids nonetheless dominate when it comes to land space, utilization, and on-line marketplaces.
Wolf Territories Grid was the fastest-growing grid this month by land space, with a rise of 5,184 customary area equivalents. OSgrid was in second place with 1,861 new areas, adopted by Virtual Worlds Grid with 748, German World Grid with 282, and ZetaWorlds with 152 customary area equivalents.
OSgrid maintained its lead when it comes to whole digital land space with 25,558 areas, adopted by Wolf Territories Grid which has overtaken Kitely in second place, having 18,368 areas. Kitely has 18,325 areas, ZetaWorlds has 8,189 areas, and Alternate Metaverse is fifth largest grid with 7,339 whole areas.
Our stats additionally don’t embrace many of the grids working on OutWorldz DreamGrid — a distribution of OpenSim utilized by many individuals to create digital worlds on private computer systems, personal firm grids, or faculty grids.
DreamGrid reports a complete of 8,519 grids with a complete land space of 65,638 customary areas. Micro Technology Services owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz. The overall listing of grids tracked by OutWorldz is available here.
With the free-to-use DreamGrid software program, customers can simply create digital worlds via a graphical interface and one-click set up characteristic. They’ll additionally use it to simply and rapidly handle their grids utilizing graphical interfaces. This consists of 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.
OutWorldz offers free OARs — full area information — which you’ll be able to load to your grid simply and with little effort. The software program saved its customers a mixed whole of over $35 million in setup and land rental charges in 2022 when in comparison with the Second Life value equivalents.
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 spending a dime utilizing both DreamGrid, or the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or every 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.
High 25 grids by lively customers
In terms of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new buddies 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 clients. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the largest viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,164 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 1,997 lively customers
- GBG World: 1,738 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,684 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 1,340 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,287 lively customers
- Neverworld: 1,145 lively customers
- Eureka World: 1,119 lively customers
- Soul Grid: 1,081 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,049 lively customers
- Exo-Life: 993 lively customers
- Moonrose: 971 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 923 lively customers
- Kitely: 870 lively customers
- Craft World: 826 lively customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 686 lively customers
- Barefoot Dreamers: 649 lively customers
- The City: 623 lively customers
- Kid Grid: 623 lively customers
- Piggy Bank Grid World: 621 lively customers
- Dorena’s World: 586 lively customers
- Astralia: 575 lively customers
- Offworld: 548 lively customers
- One Life Grid: 493 lively customers
- DreamNation: 490 lively customers
The lively listing relies 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 common, however we wouldn’t know.
Piggy Financial institution Grid was the quickest rising grid this previous month, with 331 new lively customers, adopted by OSgrid with 276, WaterSplash with 268, The Metropolis with 239, and Child Grid with 238 new lively customers.
The lively person stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is helpful if in case you have a hypergrid teleport and need to put up gates to the preferred grids, or embrace the preferred grids in an in-world listing. This listing can also be place to begin if you wish to open up new shops, maintain occasions, or are simply on the lookout for locations to go to.
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 faculty grids, personal firm grids, small household grids, and so forth. From prior surveys, this darkish metaverse of OpenSim grids may truly be 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 19,889 product listings in Kitely Market containing 38,834 product variations, 33,764 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 576 OpenSim grids up to now. 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, 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 pink space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost manner for OpenSim customers to purchase official, 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 best way that Netflix and different streaming companies 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 gives 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 aren’t in a position to teleport to different grids — the largest such grid, Tag, additionally has its on-line marketplace. {The marketplace} lists 28,293 objects each on the market and people free.
One other on-line market which we might be reporting stats for is the Neverworlds’ Marketplace, which simply launched. The location presently lists 33 objects on the market to residents and 41 objects for hypergridders, but when the venture takes off, we hope to be together with its stats on this part sooner or later.
Neverworlds gives free land and new on-line market
Neverworlds Grid has began two on-line marketplaces, one for residents and one other for hypergridders. The marketplaces presently supply a small collection of objects, together with rigged clothes and constructing provides.
Not like the Kitely Market, nonetheless, the Neverworlds market additionally gives freebies.
“All of the objects provided are made by creators,” Govega Sachertorte advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “Members get unique objects.”
“The members of Neverworld do get premium content material, extra freebies and lowered costs for something that prices cash,” she added. “The hypergrid space nonetheless continues to be good without spending a dime and we consider we now have a number of the finest unique content material on the market and that is additionally a rising venture.”
The grid has additionally kicked off a continent project which spans throughout 200 areas. It has built-in street system, water methods, and most of it’s made from free parcels. The areas are developed with parcels for residents ranging in measurement from 12,000 meters to about 45,000 meters, stated Sachertorte.
“They’re free and the prim limits are 5000 prims per parcel,” he advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “We presently have a number of dozen parcels and are including extra day by day as the necessity arises. We additionally do permit self hosted areas to connect to the continent, if they comply with use the identical street system and textures.”
Free digital land on One Life Grid
One Life Grid, which is a brand new grid, can also be providing free land — particularly, 4096-square-meter, 938-prim parcels to any newly registered avatar. A person simply wants to enroll and look ahead to activation, which occurs inside 24 hours.
The grid additionally has buying areas for various meshes together with grownup ones.
The hypergrid deal with is onelife-grid.de:8002.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: Casadamici, Darkheart’s Realm, EscapeLands, Hosting4OpenSim Test Grid, Little Whitecat, Lovely Paradise, One Life Grid, SiLi, Solaria, Vivec, and WKDVR.
The next 20 grids had been marked as suspended this month: Acearia, Ampleverse, AvatarLife Testing, BritGrid, Encitra Home Grid, HiddenDreams , Jomac Silveras Grid, MajHome, Open Waifu, OzKanga Grid, Planet 3L, Pleasure Grid, PrimGrass, Savannah Grid, Skytec Grid, Tnet Grid, Tnet Grid, Verth, and Wiccan Grid.
After a grid has been inactive for 2 months, we mark it as closed.
Typically, a grid modifications its loginURI or web site deal with and we don’t discover. If that’s the case, electronic mail us and tell us.
High 40 grids by land space
The listing beneath is a small subset of current OpenSim grids. We are actually monitoring a complete of two,527 completely different publicly-accessible grids, 418 of which had been lively this month, and 287 of which printed their statistics.
All area counts on this listing are, every time out there, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Energetic person counts embrace hypergrid guests every time doable.
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 recognition. 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, relationship all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 25,558 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 18,368 areas
- Kitely: 18,325 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 8,189 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 7,339 areas
- Discovery Grid: 5,637 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,625 areas
- Groovy Verse: 3,279 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 1,248 areas
- AviWorlds: 1,070 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- Tomi’s World: 784 areas
- GBG World: 651 areas
- Kinky Haven: 649 areas
- Piggy Bank Grid World: 613 areas
- HD Skin World: 497 areas
- Littlefield: 486 areas
- ArtDestiny: 484 areas
- German World Grid: 479 areas
- Furry World: 473 areas
- GorGrid: 417 areas
- 4Creative: 413 areas
- Craft World: 393 areas
- DreamNation: 371 areas
- Serenity: 324 areas
- Neverworld: 317 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 285 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 232 areas
- Soul Grid: 211 areas
- AvatarLife: 193 areas
- Counter Earth: 184 areas
- Youth Nation: 184 areas
- Adreans-World: 169 areas
- Tangle Grid: 165 areas
- German World: 144 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 143 areas
- Seconds: 143 areas
- GerGrid: 141 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? Electronic mail me at david@hypergridbusiness.com.
