OpenSim land space has this month gone up by a major 6,622 normal area equivalents because of new grids and a major 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 overall variety of public OpenSim grids that we observe is now as much as 418, a document excessive. That is although we’ve not too long ago reclassified many grids as non-public 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 e mail or this form in case you discover that your grid is marked as non-public and also you need it to be again on our lists.
Energetic numbers grew barely, by 444 energetic month-to-month customers, however the precise development 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 energetic customers numbers would have proven vital development this month.
The AviTron customers are in all probability nonetheless there — although their energetic consumer numbers have fallen by practically 1,000 over the previous three months. The grid additionally not too long ago turned off the hypergrid connectivity.
Hypergrid Enterprise editor Maria Korolov has beforehand really useful that individuals don’t use an AviTron account as their main 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 mentioned. “That creates havoc for anybody attempting to run a enterprise or arrange occasions.”
For customers, because of this individuals who depend upon hypergrid buddy lists or landmarks will lose entry to these, and in the event that they depend upon their avatar inventories, they are going to lose entry to these as properly. Korolov recommends that customers use an account on OSgrid or Kitely or one other steady grid for his or her main avatar and never hold any cash or objects of their AviTron avatars that they’re afraid to lose.
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,527 OpenSim grids, 418 are energetic public grids, out of which 287 made their stats obtainable for this month’s report.
In abstract, AvatarLife registered the best variety of customers this month or 422, whereas Piggy Bank Grid World received the best variety of energetic 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 normal 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 normal 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 embody many of the grids working on OutWorldz DreamGrid — a distribution of OpenSim utilized by many individuals to create digital worlds on private computer systems, non-public firm grids, or faculty grids.
DreamGrid reports a complete of 8,519 grids with a complete land space of 65,638 normal areas. Micro Technology Services owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz. The entire checklist 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 will additionally use it to simply and rapidly handle their grids utilizing graphical interfaces. This contains including new areas, banning customers, deleting areas, auto restarting, monitoring utilization stats, and shutting down whole grids or unoccupied areas to save lots of computing energy.
OutWorldz offers free OARs — full area recordsdata — 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 worth equivalents.
OpenSim is a free open-source, digital world platform, that’s much like Second Life and permits individuals 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 totally free utilizing both DreamGrid, or 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 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 energetic customers
On the subject of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new associates 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 on the lookout for the largest viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,164 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 1,997 energetic customers
- GBG World: 1,738 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,684 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 1,340 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 1,287 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,145 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 1,119 energetic customers
- Soul Grid: 1,081 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,049 energetic customers
- Exo-Life: 993 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 971 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 923 energetic customers
- Kitely: 870 energetic customers
- Craft World: 826 energetic customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 686 energetic customers
- Barefoot Dreamers: 649 energetic customers
- The City: 623 energetic customers
- Kid Grid: 623 energetic customers
- Piggy Bank Grid World: 621 energetic customers
- Dorena’s World: 586 energetic customers
- Astralia: 575 energetic customers
- Offworld: 548 energetic customers
- One Life Grid: 493 energetic customers
- DreamNation: 490 energetic customers
The energetic checklist relies on energetic, distinctive 30-day consumer 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 energetic customers, adopted by OSgrid with 276, WaterSplash with 268, The Metropolis with 239, and Child Grid with 238 new energetic customers.
The energetic consumer stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is beneficial when you have a hypergrid teleport and need to put up gates to the preferred grids, or embody 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 on the lookout for locations to go to.
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, non-public firm grids, small household grids, and so forth. From prior surveys, this darkish metaverse of OpenSim grids would possibly 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 at present 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 to this point. The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material obtainable 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 purple space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost method for OpenSim customers to purchase professional, 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, much 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 presents further 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 28,293 gadgets each on the market and people free.
One other on-line market which we can be reporting stats for is the Neverworlds’ Marketplace, which simply launched. The positioning at present lists 33 gadgets on the market to residents and 41 gadgets for hypergridders, but when the challenge takes off, we hope to be together with its stats on this part sooner or later.
Neverworlds presents 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 at present provide a small choice of gadgets, together with rigged clothes and constructing provides.
In contrast to the Kitely Market, nevertheless, the Neverworlds market additionally presents freebies.
“All of the gadgets supplied are made by creators,” Govega Sachertorte informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Members get unique gadgets.”
“The members of Neverworld do get premium content material, extra freebies and lowered costs for something that prices cash,” she added. “The hypergrid space nevertheless continues to be good totally free and we imagine we’ve among the finest authentic content material on the market and that is additionally a rising challenge.”
The grid has additionally kicked off a continent project which spans throughout 200 areas. It has built-in highway 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, mentioned Sachertorte.
“They’re free and the prim limits are 5000 prims per parcel,” he informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “We at present have a couple of dozen parcels and are including extra every day as the necessity arises. We additionally do permit self hosted areas to connect to the continent, if they comply with use the identical highway system and textures.”
Free digital land on One Life Grid
One Life Grid, which is a brand new grid, can be providing free land — particularly, 4096-square-meter, 938-prim parcels to any newly registered avatar. A consumer simply wants to enroll and watch for activation, which occurs inside 24 hours.
The grid additionally has procuring areas for various meshes together with grownup ones.
The hypergrid handle is onelife-grid.de:8002.
New grids
The next grids have 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 have 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 handle and we don’t discover. If that’s the case, e mail us and tell us.
High 40 grids by land space
The checklist beneath is a small subset of current OpenSim grids. We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,527 completely different publicly-accessible grids, 418 of which have been energetic this month, and 287 of which printed their statistics.
All area counts on this checklist are, every time obtainable, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Energetic consumer counts embody hypergrid guests every time attainable.
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 in case you are making a hyperport.
You’ll be able to see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting 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
Have you learnt of some other grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at [email protected]
