OpenSim’s public grids hit a file excessive this month with its largest land space ever, the equal of 127,958 commonplace areas.
This was a rise of 2,252 areas in comparison with final month.
In the meantime, the whole variety of registered customers on public OpenSim grids elevated by 7,440 and the whole variety of energetic customers rose by 666.
This was even if a number of grids didn’t report their stats this month, together with The University of St Andrews’ School of Computer Science, which reported over 4,000 registered customers final month, and Soul Grid, which reported 1,151 actives final month. Different grids that have been lacking stats this month included Etheria Grid, Youth Nation, Mathesis, WaterSplash, E Grid, Champions Gate, and the Impulse Grid.
We at the moment are monitoring 2,596 OpenSim grids in whole, 422 of which have been energetic and 271 of which revealed their statistics. The remaining wouldn’t have accessible public stats pages. In case you have a brand new stats web page, please do tell us for inclusion.
OSgrid, Wolf Territories Grid, and Kitely are nonetheless the three largest grids by land space.
OSgrid now has an equal of 29,281 standard-sized areas in whole, adopted by Wolf Territories Grid with 25,440 areas, Kitely with 18,294, ZetaWorlds with 10,132, and Alternate Metaverse with 9,369 areas. German World Grid added essentially the most areas or 637 prior to now 30 days since we reported these statistics, adopted by Alternate Metaverse with 473, Groovy Verse with 387, OSgrid with 351, and Galactic Virtual — a brand new grid — emerged with 123 areas.
OSgrid provides limitless free areas to all residents — so long as individuals run them on their residence computer systems. They have an easy region installer here. No marvel they’re the most important grid in OpenSim.
ZetaWorlds, however, provides two-by-two areas with 75,000 prims for €18.99 (US $21) per thirty days with other configuration options also available. Groovyverse land prices begin at $25 per thirty days for a area that may be configured to be as large as 16 by 16 commonplace areas. Each grids additionally provide free land parcels to residents.
Our stats additionally don’t embrace a lot of the grids working on DreamGrid since these are typically non-public grids.
DreamGrid has up to now recorded a complete of three,435 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched since DreamGrid began, in accordance with Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Know-how Providers owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The entire checklist of grids for which OutWorldz reviews stats is available here.
With the free-to-use DreamGrid software program, customers can simply create digital worlds by way of a graphical interface and one-click set up characteristic. They will 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 save lots of computing energy.
OutWorldz also offers free OARs — full area information — 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 abilities to shortly 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, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or some other distribution, whereas business 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.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we can 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.
Prime 25 grids by energetic customers
In relation to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks seeking to make new pals search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential clients. Occasion organizers searching for the most important viewers — you get the thought.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 4,866 energetic customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 3,312 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,062 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,897 energetic customers
- GBG World: 1,814 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,591 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,552 energetic customers
- Piggy Bank Grid World: 1,387 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 1,324 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 1,250 energetic customers
- AviTron: 1,085 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 1,066 energetic customers
- Exo-Life: 993 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 775 energetic customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 661 energetic customers
- Craft World: 629 energetic customers
- Kitely: 626 energetic customers
- Barefoot Dreamers: 622 energetic customers
- The City: 571 energetic customers
- Hartland: 571 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 557 energetic customers
- DreamNation: 497 energetic customers
- ProxyNet: 491 energetic customers
- German World Grid: 481 energetic customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 470 energetic customers
The energetic checklist relies on energetic, 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 well-liked, however we wouldn’t know. The preferred grids are additionally not essentially essentially the most energetic.
Hartland is that this month’s biggest gainer within the variety of energetic customers with 489 new energetic customers, adopted by Neverworld with 387, Darkheart’s Playground with 362, Alternate Metaverse with 274, and Wolf Territories Grid with a rise of 213 energetic customers.
The energetic person stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is helpful when 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 checklist can also be a great place to begin if you wish to open up new shops, maintain occasions, or are simply searching for locations to go to.
Baller Nation gained essentially the most variety of registered customers over the last 30 days, adopted by OSgrid with 356, AvatarLife with 126, Various Metaverse with 74, and Kitely with 69 customers.
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, non-public 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 at the moment 20,056 product listings in Kitely Market containing 39,784 product variations, 34,687 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 595 OpenSim grids so far. The Kitely Market is the most important 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, 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 approach for OpenSim customers to purchase professional, authorized content material not solely provides 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 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 provides 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 will not be in a position to teleport to different grids — the most important such grid, Tag, additionally has its on-line marketplace. {The marketplace} lists 29,950 objects each on the market and free.
Neverworlds’ Marketplace is an alternative choice for OpenSim grids, and does assist hypergrid buyers. The location at the moment a couple of dozen objects on the market to each residents and hypergridders. It’s a place for sourcing free and intensely low cost objects since most are priced at below $3.
Neverworld additionally provides free digital land to residents who can then arrange store and craft or herald digital objects on the market or give away on the market. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in dimension and may assist as much as 5,000 prims, grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
OpenSim grid information
Hosting4Opensim waives all grid internet hosting setup and assist charges
Hosting4Opensim.com has waived all grid internet hosting set-up charges and setup-related assist charges, which means the grid internet hosting firm is now providing all assist to clients without spending a dime. The corporate can also be permitting clients to make use of private domains on all server packages, firm CEO Josh Boam informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Full grid setup packages with the corporate begin at $80 per thirty days for a personal grid of as much as 15 areas, and the package deal features a Strong server, two free areas, and a person registration web page. Business grid packages begin at $150 per thirty days. Area internet hosting packages begin at $12.50 per thirty days however one should personal a grid to order area packages. The corporate additionally gives cash server leases with assist for Podex and Gloebits.
AviWorlds to host 5,000th person celebration
AviWorlds grid will host a four-hour party at midday Pacific Time on August 27 on the AviWorlds Membership to rejoice reaching the 5,000 person milestone. The celebration will characteristic dwell music by Rogue Galaxy.
“There can be a giveaway to people who attend they usually can acquire our present package deal on the membership on that day,” grid CEO Josh Boam informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “We could have a field with objects inside without spending a dime that usually are paid-for objects on Kitely or AviWorlds.”
The hypergrid tackle is login.aviworlds.com:8002:AviWorlds Membership.
OSFest seeks volunteers, presenters
This yr’s OpenSim Fest — a two-week occasion that features artwork exhibitions, service provider expos, music, shops, and numerous displays — will run from 1 p.m. on September 15 to six p.m. on September 30 on the OpenSimFest Grid, which is now dwell with 18 areas on which completely different actions will happen. This yr’s theme is Jazz and Blues Period, late 1860’s to early 1970’s.
The occasion will open with a celebration from 1 p.m. to six p.m. Pacific Time on September 15. There can be performances on Thursdays, Fridays, and all weekends. Different key occasions embrace Exhibit Excursions scheduled from 1 p.m. to six p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, September 18, and Monday, September 25. Retailer excursions will happen on Wednesday, September 20, and Wednesday, September 27, on the identical time. The full calendar can be accessed on this page.
The hosts invite retailers, sponsors, exhibit presenters, and leisure artists for exhibitions, sponsorships, and displays. These fascinated by exhibiting can reserve free parcels and current every kind of artwork and objects of every kind from throughout OpenSim, together with however not restricted to the occasion’s theme. As of this writing, 20 out of 68 whole free exhibitor parcels and eight out of 40 whole free service provider parcels are nonetheless out there.
Please register here for a free ticket after which contact the festival director, exhibitor organizer, or service provider organizer by way of the OSFest Discord channel or through opensimfest@gmail.com to get service provider and exhibitor parcels. As normal, the occasion’s exhibitor and service provider parcels can be 100% free because of the occasion sponsors shown on this page. The occasion nonetheless requires extra sponsors as the complete sponsorship quantity required is but to be reached.
Anybody keen to take part as a volunteer greeter, chief, host, and hostess, or performer can contact the Volunteer Organizer or Performer Organizer through the identical Discord web page. Enquiries can be directed to the above-mentioned e-mail tackle.
ZetaWorlds launches Group Occasion Areas
ZetaWorlds grid has launched 5 occasion areas generally known as The Vault, ZetaWorlds Stage, OpenSim Convention Center, Estate Regions Art, and Maxwell Theatre, the place people or teams can host and attend all types of occasions just about. Following profitable testing of the Occasions area final month, the grid this week introduced extra areas for use for occasions.
The occasion areas have completely different options to assist completely different social occasions. The options embrace seating areas, open areas, dance flooring, artwork installations or cubicles, phases with lights and particle results, group assembly areas, open-air areas for installations and shows, business heaps, and a few may even assist occasion advertisements.
OpenMic Arts seeks expertise
OpenMic Stage is searching for performers from across the hypergrid. Chris Dayellis and Whisper Carfield host dwell open mic occasions on Alternate Metaverse on Saturdays from 3 p.m. to five p.m. Singers, musicians, poets, storytellers, comedians, and freestyles are invited to take part. It’s a good spot to showcase a hidden expertise.
To take part, go to alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Open Mic Arts.
Open Mic Arts is simply one of many occasions featured on the artwork areas on the Alternate Metaverse grid. These areas additionally provide a number of services, together with an artwork gallery, an arts journal, a theatrical stage, a dwell efficiency stage, a celebration pavilion, and are residence to the Inspiration Cafe, and the Annual Pageant Of The Artwork.
Weekly prim-building lessons begin this September
Prim building classes for rookies will begin on September 7 and thereafter happen each Thursday. In the meantime, the superior prim constructing course begins on September 2 and can happen each Saturday on the Koryphon Academy on the Alternate Metaverse grid. The superior prim constructing lessons will serve those that attended the starter lessons in 2022.
The lessons can be hosted by Rique Giano.
The hypergrid tackle is alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Koryphon Academy.
Obtain, 3D-print, and put on Peace for Ukraine jewellery in actual life
The Monentes Jewelry retailer has launched downloadable files of a recently-designed pendant named Peace for Ukraine on the gathering’s download page on Three Hills Grid — Marianna Monente’s grid has now been renamed from Digital-HG to Three Hills Grid to keep away from title confusion with the Digital Grid. The brand new artwork may be downloaded after which 3D printed for carrying in actual life for anybody who desires to assist Ukraine following the battle with Russia. The jewellery was designed by the shop proprietor Marianna Monentes.
The shop can also be providing, on the identical web page, different new items of jewellery for obtain and 3D printing. All of the artwork works are copyrighted and may subsequently not be used elsewhere for business functions.
New Firestorm model out
Firestorm Viewer has a brand new version 6.6.14.69596 revealed on August 14, which fixes some points ensuing from Linden Lab’s latest selections. The brand new model comes with a number of enhancements, together with some that may make constructing and scripting higher.
The brand new model additionally removes the “View Profile” from the V2 context menu for the resident’s personal avatar, prevents profile texts from getting truncated in some instances, fixes a number of log warnings associated to profiles, and fixes the profile notes below energetic modifying getting discarded when the profile proprietor enters or leaves the area on the identical time.
It’s story time with StoryLink Radio dwell
StoryLink Radio presents two storytelling classes this week. The primary one is titled Excessive Seas Cthulhu — Swashbacking Journey Meets the Mythos!, and can stream live on StoryLink Radio’s YouTube channel and in-world in Creative Collaborators region in Kitely grid and Nowhere Ville region in Second Life grid at 7 p.m. to eight p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, August 17.
Narrated by storyteller and StoryLink Radio proprietor Shandon Loring, the story will take you again in time when tall ships roamed the oceans and creatures lurked at the hours of darkness depths.
The second story, titled Midnight Dreary — Cthulhu Meets Edgar Allan Poe, will stream on the above-mentioned YouTube hyperlink and areas in Kitely and Second Life grids from 9 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, August 17.
StoryLink Radio presents literature of many genres in a themed digital world setting but additionally, behind this, runs a literacy enhancement initiative, stated Loring.
“We have now nice audiences that come to every of our performances, usually dressing in theme for the story, however come-as-you-are is at all times welcome too,” he informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
As a part of StoryLink’s Literacy Enhancement initiative for rising readers and language learners, some story movies additionally characteristic in-video texts so listeners can learn alongside.
The viewers can also share with one another or with the host storyteller any ideas they’ve a couple of story whereas it’s being informed dwell. The dwell chat streams alongside the story. StoryLink additionally archives previous story episodes on its YouTube channel for on-demand listening by anybody.
Extra storytelling classes are scheduled for September and October — the storytelling peak season.
OpenSim nonetheless wants extra volunteer testers for the shift to .Web 6
Future releases of OpenSim are prone to assist Microsoft .Web as a substitute of the choice known as Mono, and builders and the group at massive are specializing in and actively contemplating the shift. Though there are testers actively engaged on the adjustments and implementations, the quantity is probably going insufficient, particularly with out automated testing of primary features, Zetamex CEO Vincent Sylvester informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Nonetheless wanted are unit testers and total testers, particularly those that are accustomed to nunit and xunit assessments since these are the very best choices for OpenSim going ahead, he stated. In depth testing will guarantee adjustments will not be introducing regressions.
Skimi 3D providing full yr free license of latest 3D sport
Skimi 3D immersive gaming firm has launched a brand-new gaming part in Omnipolis grid and is providing a full yr free license of Cosmic Ascension — the corporate’s first sport within the grid.
The corporate can also be introducing particular gaming licensing packages for residents who will now get various sport activations relying upon their Patreon membership stage. Non-members may also reap the benefits of the provide by buying a license membership.
The introduction of the sport and gaming area in Omnipolis marks Skimi 3D’s enterprise into digital world gaming after spending years in crafting 3D belongings for Second Life since 2006 after which in a while transferring to OpenSim.
Avitron is closing. Or not.
AviTron proprietor Alexander Pomposelli has a historical past of abruptly shutting down grids he runs, together with AviWorlds when he was the proprietor and the short-lived Digital Ville, with out warning and inflicting customers to lose content material.
Pomposelli introduced in a Fb publish that he’s since taken down that he plans to close down AviTron on the finish of August as a consequence of declining revenues. Then he stated he could maintain it working however would want to chop prices.
AviTron has been unstable, altering enterprise fashions incessantly, switching hypergrid standing, and experiencing downtime. That’s very typical for Pomposelli, and, if the grid does keep up, customers are warned to not make investments extra time or cash into the grid than they’ll afford to lose.
For extra data, check out our recent article on the topic.
New grids
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Adult Life, Galactic Virtual, MetaverseGrid, Pineapple, Small Town X, Spes, Tanduria, Twiztid Timez Grid, and Virtual Islands.
If you recognize of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e-mail us at david@hypergridbusiness.com or maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
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 17 grids have been suspended this month: Anderian Online, Calypso, Darkheart’s Realm, Elords, Etuvia, IBK Grid, Jatlan, Keraith Grid, LoboWorld, NukoGrid, Rennoc World, Society of the Sacred Grove, The Shirelands, Twisted Grid, and Virtual Melody.
Typically, a grid adjustments 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 checklist under is a small subset of current OpenSim grids. We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,584 completely different publicly-accessible grids, 419 of which have been energetic this month, and 268 of which revealed their statistics.
All area counts on this checklist are, each time out there, when it comes to commonplace area equivalents. Lively person counts embrace hypergrid guests each 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 may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the way in which again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 29,281 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 25,440 areas
- Kitely: 18,294 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 10,134 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 9,399 areas
- Discovery Grid: 5,298 areas
- Groovy Verse: 4,387 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,582 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,480 areas
- TheKaz Grid: 1,361 areas
- German World Grid: 1,186 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 960 areas
- GBG World: 950 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 875 areas
- AviWorlds: 851 areas
- Kinky Haven: 637 areas
- ArtDestiny: 625 areas
- Tomi’s World: 625 areas
- Piggy Bank Grid World: 615 areas
- Littlefield: 491 areas
- Furry World: 473 areas
- GorGrid: 427 areas
- 4Creative: 413 areas
- DreamNation: 406 areas
- Craft World: 386 areas
- AvatarLife: 330 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 294 areas
- Neverworld: 252 areas
- Soul Grid: 239 areas
- AviTron: 223 areas
- Counter Earth: 184 areas
- Adreans-World: 164 areas
- Horse Island: 162 areas
- Outworldz: 154 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 144 areas
- German World: 144 areas
- GerGrid: 140 areas
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 126 areas
Have you learnt of some 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.
