OpenSim’s public grids hit a file excessive this month with its largest land space ever, the equal of 127,958 normal areas.
This was a rise of 2,252 areas in comparison with final month.
In the meantime, the overall variety of registered customers on public OpenSim grids elevated by 7,440 and the overall variety of lively customers rose by 666.
This was even supposing 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 complete, 422 of which have been lively and 271 of which revealed their statistics. The remainder don’t have accessible public stats pages. When 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 complete, 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 up 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 house computer systems. They have an easy region installer here. No marvel they’re the most important grid in OpenSim.
ZetaWorlds, then again, provides two-by-two areas with 75,000 prims for €18.99 (US $21) monthly with other configuration options also available. Groovyverse land prices begin at $25 monthly for a area that may be configured to be as massive as 16 by 16 normal areas. Each grids additionally supply free land parcels to residents.
Our stats additionally don’t embrace many of the grids operating on DreamGrid since these are typically personal grids.
DreamGrid has thus far recorded a complete of three,435 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched since DreamGrid began, in response to Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Expertise Companies owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The entire listing of grids for which OutWorldz studies stats is available here.
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 will 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 whole grids or unoccupied areas to avoid wasting 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 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 at no cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or another 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 obtainable
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we shall be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You’ll be able to subscribe here or fill out the shape under.
Prime 25 grids by lively customers
In relation to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals trying to make new mates 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 prospects. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 4,866 lively customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 3,312 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,062 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,897 lively customers
- GBG World: 1,814 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,591 lively customers
- Neverworld: 1,552 lively customers
- Piggy Bank Grid World: 1,387 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 1,324 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,250 lively customers
- AviTron: 1,085 lively customers
- Moonrose: 1,066 lively customers
- Exo-Life: 993 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 775 lively customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 661 lively customers
- Craft World: 629 lively customers
- Kitely: 626 lively customers
- Barefoot Dreamers: 622 lively customers
- The City: 571 lively customers
- Hartland: 571 lively customers
- Trianon World: 557 lively customers
- DreamNation: 497 lively customers
- ProxyNet: 491 lively customers
- German World Grid: 481 lively customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 470 lively customers
The lively listing is predicated on lively, 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 in style, however we wouldn’t know. The most well-liked grids are additionally not essentially essentially the most lively.
Hartland is that this month’s biggest gainer within the variety of lively customers with 489 new lively customers, adopted by Neverworld with 387, Darkheart’s Playground with 362, Alternate Metaverse with 274, and Wolf Territories Grid with a rise of 213 lively customers.
The lively consumer 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 most well-liked grids or embrace the most well-liked 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.
Baller Nation gained essentially the most variety of registered customers over the last 30 days, adopted by OSgrid with 356, AvatarLife with 126, Different 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, 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 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 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 up to now. The Kitely Market is the most important assortment of authorized content material obtainable 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 purple space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed stage for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost manner 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, 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 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 aren’t capable of teleport to different grids — the largest such grid, Tag, additionally has its on-line marketplace. {The marketplace} lists 29,950 gadgets each on the market and free.
Neverworlds’ Marketplace is another choice for OpenSim grids, and does assist hypergrid buyers. The location at the moment just a few dozen gadgets on the market to each residents and hypergridders. It’s a place for sourcing free and very low-cost gadgets since most are priced at beneath $3.
Neverworld additionally provides free digital land to residents who can then arrange store and craft or herald digital gadgets on the market or give away on the market. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in dimension and might assist as much as 5,000 prims, grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte instructed 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, that means the grid internet hosting firm is now providing all assist to prospects at no cost. The corporate can also be permitting prospects to make use of private domains on all server packages, firm CEO Josh Boam instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Full grid setup packages with the corporate begin at $80 monthly for a personal grid of as much as 15 areas, and the package deal features a Strong server, two free areas, and a consumer registration web page. Business grid packages begin at $150 monthly. Area internet hosting packages begin at $12.50 monthly however one should personal a grid to order area packages. The corporate additionally offers cash server leases with assist for Podex and Gloebits.
AviWorlds to host 5,000th consumer celebration
AviWorlds grid will host a four-hour party at midday Pacific Time on August 27 on the AviWorlds Membership to have a good time reaching the 5,000 consumer milestone. The celebration will function stay music by Rogue Galaxy.
“There shall be a giveaway to people who attend they usually can get hold of our present package deal on the membership on that day,” grid CEO Josh Boam instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “We could have a field with gadgets inside at no cost that usually are paid-for gadgets 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 stay with 18 areas on which totally 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 shall 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 similar 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 gadgets of every kind from throughout OpenSim, together with however not restricted to the occasion’s theme. As of this writing, 20 out of 68 complete free exhibitor parcels and eight out of 40 complete free service provider parcels are nonetheless obtainable.
Please register here for a free ticket after which contact the festival director, exhibitor organizer, or service provider organizer by means of the OSFest Discord channel or through opensimfest@gmail.com to get service provider and exhibitor parcels. As common, the occasion’s exhibitor and service provider parcels shall be 100% free because of the occasion sponsors shown on this page. The occasion nonetheless requires extra sponsors as the total 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 Neighborhood Occasion Areas
ZetaWorlds grid has launched 5 occasion areas often called 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 totally different options to assist totally different social occasions. The options embrace seating areas, open areas, dance flooring, artwork installations or cubicles, levels with lights and particle results, group assembly areas, open-air areas for installations and shows, industrial tons, and a few may even assist occasion adverts.
OpenMic Arts seeks expertise
OpenMic Stage is on the lookout for performers from across the hypergrid. Chris Dayellis and Whisper Carfield host stay 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 great 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 supply a number of amenities, together with an artwork gallery, an arts journal, a theatrical stage, a stay efficiency stage, a celebration pavilion, and are house to the Inspiration Cafe, and the Annual Pageant Of The Artwork.
Weekly prim-building lessons begin this September
Prim building classes for learners 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 shall 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 might be downloaded after which 3D printed for carrying in actual life for anybody who desires to assist Ukraine following the warfare 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 knickknack for obtain and 3D printing. All of the artwork works are copyrighted and might due to this fact not be used elsewhere for industrial 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 current choices. The brand new model comes with a number of enhancements, together with some that can 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 beneath lively enhancing getting discarded when the profile proprietor enters or leaves the area on the similar time.
It’s story time with StoryLink Radio stay
StoryLink Radio presents two storytelling periods 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 midnight 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, mentioned Loring.
“We’ve nice audiences that come to every of our performances, typically dressing in theme for the story, however come-as-you-are is all the time welcome too,” he instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
As a part of StoryLink’s Literacy Enhancement initiative for rising readers and language learners, some story movies additionally function 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 instructed stay. The stay chat streams alongside the story. StoryLink additionally archives previous story episodes on its YouTube channel for on-demand listening by anybody.
Extra storytelling periods 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 more likely to assist Microsoft .Web as an alternative of the choice known as Mono, and builders and the group at giant are specializing in and actively contemplating the shift. Though there are testers actively engaged on the modifications and implementations, the quantity is probably going insufficient, particularly with out automated testing of primary features, Zetamex CEO Vincent Sylvester instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Nonetheless wanted are unit testers and general testers, particularly those that are accustomed to nunit and xunit assessments since these are the very best choices for OpenSim going ahead, he mentioned. In depth testing will guarantee modifications aren’t introducing regressions.
Skimi 3D providing full yr free license of recent 3D recreation
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 recreation within the grid.
The corporate can also be introducing particular gaming licensing packages for residents who will now get numerous recreation activations relying upon their Patreon membership stage. Non-members may also reap the benefits of the supply 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 property for Second Life since 2006 after which afterward shifting 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 submit that he’s since taken down that he plans to close down AviTron on the finish of August because of declining revenues. Then he mentioned he could maintain it operating however would want to chop prices.
AviTron has been unstable, altering enterprise fashions often, 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 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.
Generally, a grid modifications 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 listing under is a small subset of present OpenSim grids. We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,584 totally different publicly-accessible grids, 419 of which have been lively this month, and 268 of which revealed their statistics.
All area counts on this listing are, at any time when obtainable, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests at any time when 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 recognition. 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: 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 another grids which might be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at david@hypergridbusiness.com.
