OpenSim lively 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 lively customers since Could 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 complete of 130,366 customary area equivalents.
We normally witness a rise in exercise throughout this season since extra individuals 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 lively customers.
You’ll be able to 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 discuss how generative AI will change content creation and coding.
In the meantime, the variety of complete registered OpenSim customers tumbled by an enormous 8,055 this previous month, largely attributable to the indefinite closure of AviTron, which had 10,179 complete registered customers and 898 actives final month presently.
We are actually monitoring a complete of two,652 public grids, of which 340 are lively and 274 printed their statistics this month. 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 approach, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and customers.
The Wolf Territories Grid is the most important grid by land space, with 26,832 customary area equivalents, adopted by OSgrid and Kitely.
Our stats don’t embody most of the grids operating on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are usually non-public grids.
DreamGrid has to this point recorded greater than 3,000 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched because it was launched, in keeping with this yr’s replace from Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Know-how Providers owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The entire 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 via a graphical interface and one-click set up characteristic on their dwelling pc. 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 save lots of 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 recordsdata — 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 expertise to rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their servers without spending a dime utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or another distribution, whereas business 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 likely 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.
High 25 grids by lively customers
With regards to 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 essentially the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers in search of the largest viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,324 lively customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 4,428 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,230 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,113 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,919 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,320 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,297 lively customers
- Moonrose: 1,277 lively customers
- Neverworld: 1,080 lively customers
- Littlefield: 1,073 lively customers
- Trianon World: 1,062 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,014 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 806 lively customers
- Craft World: 780 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 763 lively customers
- Astralia: 735 lively customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 712 lively customers
- Kitely: 685 lively customers
- Eureka World: 668 lively customers
- German World Grid: 654 lively customers
- Virtualife: 560 lively customers
- New Life Italy: 546 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 517 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 517 lively customers
- Vivo Sim: 510 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 preferred grids are additionally not essentially essentially the most lively.
The lively 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 listing can also be a superb place to begin if you wish to open up new shops, maintain occasions, or are simply in search of locations to go to.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at present 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 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 pink space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous eight years.
Christmas and New Yr’s Eve events on Littlefield
There will likely be 4 holiday-themed events, the primary beginning at 6 p.m. on December 23, a Christmas Eve occasion 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 likely 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 positioned within the area, grid co-owner Walter Balazic instructed 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 plenty of different Christmas-themed sights.
The hypergrid addresses are lfgrid.com:Christmas Island and lfgrid.com:New Years Island.
Vacation occasion this weekend on Kitely
Kitely will host a vacation occasion 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 present growing a mobile-based viewer for the grid which can see AvatarLife members taking part in all sorts of video games on the cellular units by subsequent yr, AvatarLife co-owner Sushant Chandrasekar stated.
“We’re working with them to make this doable,” he instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “By September 2024, we must be on cellular. We’re maintaining the cellular app purely for gameplay, roleplay, and leisure. Creators who need to create content material on AvatarLife will nonetheless have to do it from their computer systems. The target of the cellular app is to open the digital worlds to a variety 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 group within the venture. The group will proceed to construct for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and different immersive VR units sooner or later as soon as the cellular app is full and reveals traction. The corporate additionally has a brand new CTO, Alok Singh Mahor, who’s heading the expertise division.
The grid may also 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 present growing a brand new continent for role-playing video games, named Neverrealms, and is in search of role-player coordinators. The function play space at present consists of Lucidus and Stilwater, two giant cyberpunk post-apocalyptic sims. The function play will focus on land grabs by warring factions, grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte stated.
“We will likely be including different sims now we have reminiscent of three Fallout-inspired sims, fight sims, and zombie hunt areas,” she instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Additionally some fae and elven areas. The world is already the scale of 32 customary areas and now we have plans to actively increase this within the new yr.”
The grid can also be providing Gloebits bonuses and free areas for brand spanking new creators and DJs, significantly creators who can provide authentic creations together with clothes, skins, hair, builds, scripts, and automobiles, she stated.
The grid has additionally been operating a promotion the place anybody who buys new land will get free further 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 complete till December 31 this yr, stated Sachertorte.
Moreover, there are tons of of free premium parcels out there for brand spanking 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 present offline following a Facebook submit final month from proprietor Alex Ferraris discussing one more closure. He’s beforehand closed AviTron or his earlier grid, AviWorlds, greater than twenty occasions. There’s no info 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 one more indefinite closure. Just a few individuals have despatched us emails complaining about it however the majority of the ten,000+ residents the grid claims to have, appears to haven’t any complaints in any respect concerning the many enterprise closures, most of which aren’t even deliberate or introduced in time. The grid numbers may be one other try by Ferraris, who also runs a blog about a number of different issues together with cryptocurrencies, to market his grid.
If you’re into digital worlds and are planning to lease 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 lively in the present day 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 lease 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 in search of a particularly low-cost, dependable, and high-performance area and OSgrid for people who find themselves considering operating a area on their dwelling pc without spending a dime.
OpenMic Arts this Saturday at Alternate Metaverse
The OpenMic Stage is in search of bands, singers, musicians, poets, storytellers, comedians, free-stylers, and different artists who’re considering showcasing their expertise throughout 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 had 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 images, a stay efficiency stage, and an annual arts pageant throughout the summer season.
Win Amazon present card at Omnopolis
The Ithilien gaming area of the Omnopolis grid is internet hosting a Hello/Low sport contest by which one participant with the very best rating will win a $25 Amazon present card. The remainder 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 dwelling the prize.
The area, which is already winter and Christmas-themed, hosts free-play video games by which gamers earn free sport tokens.
The hypergrid tackle is omnipolis.com:8002:Ithilien.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: Ankabi, Arcadia Asylum, Mister Grid World, Resurgence, Tiffany’s, VR-ESC, and Tropicana Grid.
If you realize 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 had 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.
Typically, 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 present OpenSim grids. We are actually monitoring a complete of two,642 totally different publicly-accessible grids, 337 of which had been lively this month and 273 of which printed their statistics.
All area counts on this listing are, every time out there, by way of customary area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embody hypergrid guests every time doable.
Many college, 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 if you’re making a hyperport.
You’ll be able to see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting 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 another grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at david@hypergridbusiness.com.
