OpenSim energetic customers are up by 3,220 this month, reaching a brand new all-time excessive of 47,343. It was the largest one-month improve in energetic customers since Might of 2022.
The variety of areas on all OpenSim grids can also be up by 3,021, the largest month-to-month improve since this previous June, for a brand new whole of 130,366 customary area equivalents.
We normally witness a rise in exercise throughout this season since extra folks spend extra time inside on the pc, and grids ramp up for vacation occasions. Additionally, the OpenSimulator Community Conference — which took place this past weekend — reported 326 energetic customers.
You may see all the OSCC23 presentations on YouTube here, and the livestreams from both days of the conference here.
Or watch Maria Korolov’s State of the Metaverse presentation right here:
She additionally gave a speak about how generative AI will change content creation and coding.
In the meantime, the variety of whole registered OpenSim customers tumbled by an enormous 8,055 this previous month, principally attributable to the indefinite closure of AviTron, which had 10,179 whole registered customers and 898 actives final month at the moment.
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,652 public grids, of which 340 are energetic and 274 revealed their statistics this month. If in case you 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 probably be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and yahoo and customers.
The Wolf Territories Grid is the biggest grid by land space, with 26,832 customary area equivalents, adopted by OSgrid and Kitely.
Our stats don’t embrace lots of the grids operating on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are usually non-public grids.
DreamGrid has to date recorded greater than 3,000 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched because it was launched, in accordance with this yr’s replace from Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Expertise Providers owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The full listing of grids for which OutWorldz reviews stats is available here. Anybody can simply add their grid to this listing from the identical web page.
With the free-to-use DreamGrid software program, anybody can simply create digital worlds by way of a graphical interface and one-click set up characteristic on their house pc. 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 avoid wasting computing energy. Study 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 just like Second Life and permits folks with no technical abilities to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical abilities can run OpenSim worlds on their servers without spending a dime utilizing both DreamGrid, 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.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will probably be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe here or fill out the shape under.
High 25 grids by energetic 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 buddies 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 clients. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,324 energetic customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 4,428 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,230 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,113 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,919 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,320 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,297 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 1,277 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,080 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 1,073 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 1,062 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 1,014 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 806 energetic customers
- Craft World: 780 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 763 energetic customers
- Astralia: 735 energetic customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 712 energetic customers
- Kitely: 685 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 668 energetic customers
- German World Grid: 654 energetic customers
- Virtualife: 560 energetic customers
- New Life Italy: 546 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 517 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 517 energetic customers
- Vivo Sim: 510 energetic customers
The energetic listing is predicated on energetic, distinctive 30-day consumer login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. These grids that don’t report their numbers may be simply as common, however we wouldn’t know. The most well-liked grids are additionally not essentially probably the most energetic.
The energetic consumer stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is beneficial when you’ve got a hypergrid teleport and wish to put up gates to the most well-liked grids or embrace the most well-liked grids in an in-world listing. This listing can also be 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.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 20,500 product listings in Kitely Market containing 40,366 product variations, 35,192 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 600 OpenSim grids thus 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, non-public 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 crimson space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed stage for the previous eight years.
Christmas and New Yr’s Eve events on Littlefield
There will probably be 4 holiday-themed events, the primary beginning at 6 p.m. on December 23, a Christmas Eve social gathering from 9 p.m. on December 24, and a Christmas Get together from 8 p.m. Pacific Time on December 25, on the Christmas Island in Littlefield grid.
There additionally will probably be a New Yr’s Eve formal dance on the grid’s New Yr’s Island beginning at 9 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday, December 31.
All occasions will characteristic music, dancing, DJs, and Ball Drop and Fireworks each hour on the hour. Free tuxedos and robes for the occasions can be found on the grid’s formal put on store situated within the area, grid co-owner Walter Balazic informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
The area additionally hosts the Christmas Mall the place guests can discover free Christmas decorations and different sorts of freebies. The area additionally hosts Santa’s Fortress, Santa’s Flying Sleighride, Christmas Sleighride, ice skating with free ice skates, and lots of different Christmas-themed sights.
The hypergrid addresses are lfgrid.com:Christmas Island and lfgrid.com:New Years Island.
Vacation social gathering this weekend on Kitely
Kitely will host a vacation social gathering beginning at 12 midday Pacific Time on the Kitely Occasions Heart, that includes skating, snowball fights, dancing, and music with DJ Rosa. The occasion is open to hypergrid guests. If you wish to give a present contact Kimm Starr or Koshari Mahana for particulars.
The hypergrid tackle is grid.kitely.com:8002:Kitely Occasions Heart.
AvatarLife grid plans cellular app
AvatarLife is at the moment growing a mobile-based viewer for the grid which can see AvatarLife members enjoying all sorts of video games on the cellular gadgets by subsequent yr, AvatarLife co-owner Sushant Chandrasekar mentioned.
“We’re working with them to make this doable,” he informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “By September 2024, we needs to be on cellular. We’re preserving the cellular app purely for gameplay, roleplay, and leisure. Creators who wish to create content material on AvatarLife will nonetheless must do it from their computer systems. The target of the cellular app is to open the digital worlds to loads of youthful era customers preferring to make use of cellular apps as in comparison with a desktop viewer.”
AvatarLife already has a working prototype however mesh and texture rendering continues to be pending. It’s partnering with the Crystal Front Viewer crew within the venture. The crew will proceed to construct for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and different immersive VR gadgets sooner or later as soon as the cellular app is full and exhibits traction. The corporate additionally has a brand new CTO, Alok Singh Mahor, who’s heading the expertise division.
The grid can even launch premium membership this month beginning at $6 monthly. Premium members will get weekly stipends of in-world forex, and market reductions, in addition to different advantages.
Neverworld has a brand new role-play continent, Gloebit bonuses and free land
Neverworld is at the moment growing a brand new continent for role-playing video games, named Neverrealms, and is searching for role-player coordinators. The position play space at the moment contains Lucidus and Stilwater, two giant cyberpunk post-apocalyptic sims. The position play will focus on land grabs by warring factions, grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte mentioned.
“We will probably be including different sims we’ve got resembling three Fallout-inspired sims, fight sims, and zombie hunt areas,” she informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Additionally some fae and elven areas. The realm is already the scale of 32 customary areas and we’ve got plans to actively increase this within the new yr.”
The grid can also be providing Gloebits bonuses and free areas for brand new creators and DJs, notably creators who can supply authentic creations together with clothes, skins, hair, builds, scripts, and autos, she mentioned.
The grid has additionally been operating a promotion the place anybody who buys new land will get free extra prims on the bought land. Every new area order will get a 5,000 prim improve on the finish of every quarter as much as 15,000 further prims in whole till December 31 this yr, mentioned Sachertorte.
Moreover, there are a whole lot of free premium parcels out there for brand new members becoming a member of the grid. Most are homestead-sized, 16,000 meters and up.
AviTron closed indefinitely once more
AviTron grid is at the moment offline following a Facebook put up final month from proprietor Alex Ferraris discussing yet one more closure. He’s beforehand closed AviTron or his earlier grid, AviWorlds, greater than twenty occasions. There’s no data out there about how residents can get their content material out or get refunds.
The grid got here again up on-line in October from yet one more indefinite closure. A couple of folks have despatched us emails complaining about it however the majority of the ten,000+ residents the grid claims to have, appears to don’t have any complaints in any respect concerning the many enterprise closures, most of which aren’t even deliberate or introduced in time. The grid numbers might also be one other try by Ferraris, who also runs a blog about a number of different issues together with cryptocurrencies, to market his grid.
In case you are into digital worlds and are planning to hire a area or create a area, we suggest a bit extra predictable grids the place the content material won’t disappear and not using a warning from the proprietor.
The three oldest grids in OpenSim which are nonetheless energetic right this moment are OSgrid, based in 2007, 3rd Rock Grid, based in 2008, and AnSky, based in 2009. As well as, Kitely and Digiworlds are two different extraordinarily well-regarded grids which were repeatedly operational for years and hire land. Kitely has been round since 2011 with none main outages, and DigiWorldz has been round since 2015 and can also be well-known for its stability. Hypergrid Enterprise editor Maria Korolov recommends Kitely for anybody simply beginning out and on the lookout for an especially low-cost, dependable, and high-performance area and OSgrid for people who find themselves all for operating a area on their house pc without spending a dime.
OpenMic Arts this Saturday at Alternate Metaverse
The OpenMic Stage is searching for bands, singers, musicians, poets, storytellers, comedians, free-stylers, and different artists who’re all for showcasing their expertise through the OpenMic Arts occasion which can occur from 3 to five p.m. Pacific time on Saturday, December 16 on the OpenMic Arts area. The occasion occurs each Saturday and is hosted by Chris Dayellis.
The hypergrid tackle is alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Open Mic Arts.
The Open Mic Arts and the Arts areas have been created by Cataplexia Numbers and host all issues arts together with an artwork gallery that has exhibitions from artists from throughout the hypergrid, the Arts Journal which additionally accepts 2D and 3D artwork submissions together with pictures, a reside efficiency stage, and an annual arts competition through the summer season.
Win Amazon present card at Omnopolis
The Ithilien gaming area of the Omnopolis grid is internet hosting a Hello/Low recreation contest by which one participant with the very best rating will win a $25 Amazon present card. The remaining can win in-game tokens. The sport has been ongoing since August however will conclude at 11 p.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, December 24 when the winner takes house the prize.
The area, which is already winter and Christmas-themed, hosts free-play video games by which gamers earn free recreation tokens.
The hypergrid tackle is omnipolis.com:8002:Ithilien.
New grids
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Ankabi, Arcadia Asylum, Mister Grid World, Resurgence, Tiffany’s, VR-ESC, and Tropicana Grid.
If you already know of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e-mail us at david@hypergridbusiness.com or maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Closed grids
The next 42 grids have been suspended this month: 3D Worldz, Avalonia Virtual, Avequest, Bubblesz, CLC grid, Dark Shadows, Destinationz, Dreamland Metaverse, Dynamic Worldz 2, EthanWorld, Exo-Life, Floyd World, Focus 360, Great Canadian Grid, Holo Neon, Holoneon, Hypergrid City, Ikora’s World, Joe’s Place, Kantarobasta Grid, Lake Kindred Spirit, Linkwater, Lost World, Martin Dimitrov Music, Neogrid 3, Old Europa Metaverse, One Life Grid, Online Plunder, Piggy Bank Grid World, SiLi, SiN Grid, Terranei World, Thug, Troiwia, TSim, Vanessa , and Vrugs Kingdom.
Generally, a grid modifications its login URI 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 listing under is a small subset of current OpenSim grids. We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,642 totally different publicly-accessible grids, 337 of which have been energetic this month and 273 of which revealed their statistics.
All area counts on this listing are, every time out there, by way of customary area equivalents. Lively consumer 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 if you’re making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the way in which again to 2009.
- Wolf Territories Grid: 27,664 areas
- OSgrid: 25,650 areas
- Kitely: 18,296 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 11,743 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,162 areas
- Discovery Grid: 5,296 areas
- Groovy Verse: 5,067 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,574 areas
- German World Grid: 2,133 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,480 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 951 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 873 areas
- ArtDestiny: 841 areas
- Friends Grid: 816 areas
- AviWorlds: 815 areas
- Tomi’s World: 784 areas
- Kinky Haven: 653 areas
- CandM World: 581 areas
- Littlefield: 511 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- AvatarLife: 419 areas
- Craft World: 393 areas
- DreamNation: 378 areas
- Furry World: 372 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 298 areas
- Neverworld: 280 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
- Six Sides: 233 areas
- Counter Earth: 197 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 192 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 166 areas
- Kater and Friends: 151 areas
- Outworldz: 149 areas
- German World: 144 areas
- GerGrid: 140 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
Have you learnt of every other grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at david@hypergridbusiness.com.
