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OpenSim units report excessive variety of grids, for sixth month in a row – Hypergrid Enterprise

By / May 21, 2023

That is the month-to-month stats report, the place we depend up all of the areas and customers on the general public OpenSim grids. This month, the variety of energetic public grids hit an all-time excessive — 428. That is even if we’re now categorizing many grids as personal in the event that they don’t have helpful web sites, or social media pages, or present different indicators that they’re making an attempt to draw the general public.

Land space can also be up, to the very best it’s been since final October. We now have the equal of 117,869 customary areas on the general public OpenSim grids. As a fast comparability, Second Life at present has 27,778 areas, according to Grid Survey. That signifies that OpenSim at present has greater than 4 occasions the land space of Second Life, and that’s not even counting personal grids. That is largely attributable to the truth that OpenSim areas are considerably cheaper, and generally free, and OpenSim provides faculty and corporations a lot higher management, privateness, and safety.

Nonetheless, the overall variety of OpenSim energetic customers dropped to 41,620 — 566 decrease than final month — attributable to seasonal adjustments, grid shutdowns, and repair interruptions.

We are actually monitoring a complete of two,563 OpenSim grids, 428 of which had been energetic this month, and 282 of which revealed statistics.

OSgrid, Wolf Territories Grid, and Kitely, are the three most intensive grids by land space, with Wolf Territories additionally being the fastest-growing grid by land measurement having added 2,800 new areas within the final month. Additionally it is the fastest-growing by variety of actives having added 1,484 new energetic customers within the final month.

Wolf Territories has a really energetic Discord channel, and you may also observe them on Facebook and YouTube. However probably the most spectacular issues they provide is their land package — £20.00 a month (US $25) for a two-by-two area that may maintain as much as 120 avatars and 1.2 million prims. These areas are geographically contiguous, which means that they’re related by way of waterways or land space so that you could journey overland to go to your neighbors. Plus, the grid guarantees that your areas shall be prepared inside ten minutes of the order being positioned. And you may lease these big areas in bulk — £35 a month for 2 var-regions, and £120 a month for 100. No surprise they’re rising quick.

This is a superb instance of how OpenSim’s infrastructure may be deployed in such a manner as to decrease prices and enhance efficiency for customers.

OpenSim whole land space chart through the years. (Hypergrid Enterprise Knowledge.).

ZetaWorlds is second by the variety of areas added prior to now one month with 1,136 new areas, adopted by Groovyverse at 265, and OSgrid with 260 new customary area equivalents.

ZetaWorlds 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 huge as 16 by 16 customary areas. Each grids additionally supply free land parcels to residents.

OSgrid provides limitless free areas to all residents — so long as individuals run them on their dwelling computer systems. They have an easy region installer here. No surprise they’re the biggest grid in OpenSim.

Another choice for individuals who need free OpenSim land is to make use of DreamGrid  from OutWorldz, a model of OpenSim utilized by many individuals to create digital worlds on private computer systems, personal firm grids, or faculty grids.

Our stats additionally don’t embrace a lot of the grids operating on DreamGrid since these are typically personal grids.

DreamGrid reported final month that it has recorded a complete of 10,377 DreamGrids which have launched up to now. Nonetheless, when the grid identify adjustments are accounted for, 3,435 Dreamgrids have been put in as proven by a depend of distinctive, random IDs, mentioned  Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Expertise Companies owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.

Fred Beckhusen

The full record of grids for which OutWorldz stories stats is available here. 

With the free-to-use DreamGrid software program, customers can simply create digital worlds by a graphical interface and one-click set up function. They’ll 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 total grids or unoccupied areas to save lots of computing energy.

OutWorldz also offers free OARs — full area recordsdata — which you’ll 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 free of charge utilizing both DreamGrid, or 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.

An inventory of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the recommended Firestorm viewer here and discover out the place to get content material to your OpenSim world or area right here.

Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter 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 possibly can subscribe right here or fill out the shape under.

High 25 grids by energetic customers

In relation to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals 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 prospects. Occasion organizers searching for the most important viewers — you get the thought.

High 25 hottest grids this month:

  1. OSgrid: 4,847 energetic customers
  2. Wolf Territories Grid: 2,170 energetic customers
  3. DigiWorldz: 1,917 energetic customers
  4. GBG World: 1,718 energetic customers
  5. Alternate Metaverse: 1,520 energetic customers
  6. ZetaWorlds: 1,379 energetic customers
  7. Soul Grid: 1,145 energetic customers
  8. Piggy Bank Grid World: 1,098 energetic customers
  9. AviWorlds: 1,067 energetic customers
  10. Moonrose: 1,056 energetic customers
  11. Exo-Life: 993 energetic customers
  12. Neverworld: 970 energetic customers
  13. Kitely: 861 energetic customers
  14. Eureka World: 840 energetic customers
  15. Craft World: 829 energetic customers
  16. Party Destination Grid: 827 energetic customers
  17. The City: 657 energetic customers
  18. Jungle Friends Grid: 628 energetic customers
  19. Youth Nation: 578 energetic customers
  20. Trianon World: 550 energetic customers
  21. Offworld: 517 energetic customers
  22. Barefoot Dreamers: 486 energetic customers
  23. DreamNation: 468 energetic customers
  24. Astralia: 421 energetic customers
  25. Arkham Grid: 413 energetic customers

The energetic record relies on energetic, distinctive 30-day person login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. These grids that don’t report their numbers is likely to be simply as well-liked, however we wouldn’t know.

Wolf Territories Grid added the very best variety of new energetic customers within the final 30 days with 1,484, adopted by Impulse Grid with 277, The City with 248, Digital Worlds Zone with 244, and ProxyNet with 299 new energetic customers. 4 different grids additionally every acquired greater than 100 new actives in the identical interval.

Concerning shock decreases in energetic person numbers which occur primarily attributable to downtimes and closures, WaterSplash energetic person numbers went down by 629 customers prior to now month, adopted by Piggy Bank Grid World‘s by 217, and Eureka World by 178.

The energetic person stats are used to generate the favored hypergrid locations record, 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 record 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.

Right here’s some data on how and why it’s best to arrange a stats web page to 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 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 19,884 product listings in Kitely Market containing 39,337 product variations, 34,254 of that are exportable.

Kitely Market information — whole itemizing, variations, and exportables. (Picture courtesy Kitely Market.).

Kitely Market has delivered orders to 585 OpenSim grids up to now. The Kitely Market is the biggest 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, 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 seven years.

Providing a handy and low-cost manner for OpenSim customers to purchase authentic, 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 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 extra 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 capable of teleport to different grids — the most important such grid, Tag, additionally has its on-line marketplace. {The marketplace} lists 28,293 gadgets each on the market and free.

Merchandise on sale on Tag. (Picture courtesy Tag.).

Neverworlds’ Marketplace, which launched final month, is another choice for OpenSim grids, and does help hypergrid consumers. The positioning at present lists 33 gadgets on the market to residents and 44 gadgets for hypergridders. It’s a place for sourcing free and intensely low cost gadgets since most are priced at below $3.

Neverworlds 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 measures from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in measurement and of as much as 5,000 prim limits, grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte advised Hypergrid Enterprise.

Volunteers wanted for OpenSim .Web 6 testing

As the event of OpenSim shifts from Mono to the .Web 6 platform, builders are calling on people who find themselves conversant in .Web or C# testing to hitch the builders’ weekly meetings at 11 a.m. Pacific Time each Tuesday or make strategies for testing over the mailing record.

The assembly takes place on the Dev Outreach area of the OSgrid whose hypergrid handle is hg.osgrid.org:80:Dev Outreach.

Volunteering is essential since there at present isn’t any automated testing arrange for OpenSim, mentioned Zetamex Virtual Network CEO Vincent Sylvester.

Vincent Sylvester

“Transferring to .Web 6 is pretty easy, set up of the runtime is much like mono and on most machines is a couple of instructions,” he advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “The largest distinction is now not is the executable used, as an alternative the OpenSim.dll and Sturdy.dll are used to run the applying.”

In the meantime, a minor bug that affected ban lists has been fastened on the .Web department to make the ban record flag — the flag that’s used to skip checking for entries on the ban record if there are not any entries on it — efficient even earlier than a guide entry is made to a ban record. Beforehand, the flag was not modified by way of script features and so grew to become efficient provided that and when a person added an entry to the record. Now, the flag is managed by way of script features, mentioned Sylvester.

“Eradicating all entries from the record by hand resets the flag, however at present solely the reset operate will achieve this for the script equal,” he mentioned. “Once more, until backported this repair is barely on the .Web department so for anybody utilizing safety techniques that depend on these features, is likely to be a good suggestion to only add a random person to the record to ensure the flag is energetic and bans are checked correctly.”

You possibly can go here to learn more about the recent changes made to the .Web department.

XMIR grid now utilizing .Web 6 model of OpenSim

Xmir Grid now not runs any simulators on mono and is now absolutely utilizing the platform that’s in improvement model 0.9.3.dev. The grid has a complete of 62 public areas plus a sturdy server, a devoted database server, and quite a few personal check areas.

The implementation is working properly up to now and the workforce has not famous any important misharps up to now, mentioned grid proprietor Geir Noklebye.

“Efficiency is sweet, possibly barely higher than mono on the identical {hardware}, however it’s arduous to inform until you really benchmark it,” he advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “Reminiscence use appears to be considerably down over mono.”

“I’m operating it and or testing it on something from modest Intel processors, Xeons, and Apple M1 and M2 processors and there are not any processor-specific points I’ve found. Am operating Debian 11, or macOS 12.x and 13.x.”

The restrictions, he identified, are you may solely run Bulletsim physics and the Y-engine scripting engine, so relying in your begin level from the place you improve, you would possibly discover points associated to that and never .Web in itself. Plugins similar to Opensim search at present don’t work, he added, and if in case you have grown your individual they might want some recoding.

“If individuals need to check the efficiency and compatibility the area at grid.xmir.org:8002:Dayturn is a 512 by 512 VAR operating on a 10-year-old 1.4 GHz i5 with solely 4 Gb reminiscence on the machine,” he mentioned. “The grid mainland at grid.xmir.org:8002 runs on Xeon processors. The grid database is operating MySQL 8.0.33 on an Apple Mac Mini with an M1 processor and really quick SSD, which helps.”

Neverworlds grid to host Jerry Garcia Digital archive museum

Neverworlds will launch the Jerry Garcia archive museum with a grand opening on July 6 in a brand new official collaboration with Jerry Garcia, mentioned grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte.

“There shall be about 100 artwork items within the museum inside and out of doors artwork backyard,” she advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “The museum might have altering displays to focus on completely different themes. What many ppl will not be conscious Jerry was first an artist and he created 2000 items throughout his lifetime.”

The museum will change into accessible to the general public after the launch.

Neverworlds has additionally now enabled the Gloebits cash system and digital OpenSim forex. The grid additionally has a new calendar online. It has additionally began occasions with three dwell singers weekly and a rotation of DJs, in addition to a weekly new member social and By no means Riders, a weekly bicycle touring group. The group excursions sims inside Neverworlds and the schedule will quickly be on the calendar.

“The touring group does solely Neverworld street excursions presently as we’ve a very intensive street system,” mentioned Sachertorte. “It’s enjoyable and a strategy to go to all of the sims within the continent. All are invited to hitch in.”

The group has already toured the Jerry Garcia Foundation.

Digital Seashore has a brand new proprietor

Nichole aka Mistress Dalgato, who has been a resident on the Virtual Beach grid, is now the brand new grid proprietor. The Digital Seashore grid workforce is engaged on a brand new welcome area, The grid has additionally launched a couple of new areas and is planning on a couple of extra options, occasions, and dinkie events, mentioned Dalgato.

“We’re hoping we will discover some DJs to have month-to-month events,” he advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “Have been are additionally hoping within the subsequent few months to convey again karaoke however we’ll see. We even have very cheap land sale costs.”

Though the grid could also be a small one proper now, he famous, they’re like a household.

“We’ve got been getting some new members coming from Second Life who’re actually good at constructing,” he mentioned. “If we will get the help and convey among the previous members again, who is aware of, we may return to among the meet and greets we used to do as soon as every week.”

AviVerse AlterEgo now provides Vivox for dwelling areas

AlterEgo grid, which is now often called the AviVerse AlterEgo, supplies full Vivox voice help to be used on all sims together with the digital areas that customers set up on their computer systems at dwelling. Area house owners don’t have to create an account with Vivox to make use of the voice system. The selection to make obtainable the voice on this method was made to assist those that can now not have an account on Vivox, grid admin Gin Ego advised Hypergrid Enterprise.

The house-based areas are related to those who individuals can get on OSgrid. The service is free, and the installer is available here.

So far as we all know, no different grid at present provides free Vivox voice for home-based areas. E mail us if anybody else does!

New grids

The next grids had been added to our database this month: Alecia Grid, Atlas Grid, Avie Realm, Darkheart’s Estates, Deep Playa, Grid Network, Grid Racers, Happy Hour, Impulse Grid, New Life Italy, ProxyNet, SSG Sacred Grove, The E Grid, Virtual Learning Village, WKD Bucket Grid, and Zodiac.

If of any public grid that we’re lacking, please electronic mail us at [email protected] or [email protected].

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 27 grids had been marked as suspended this month: Acearia, Admeja, admeja.web, Almost Heaven, AnKaBi Grid, Avi Resurrection, blackswan.dyndns-server.com, Casadamici, Dreamscape, EasterHome, Forlorn Hope, Gabngio, Gyssy, HD Skin World, Insanity Grid, Laguna Bay, Legacy, Matrix, Mreža regij, Nightwalker Services, Nymph Paradise, Old Fuori Grid, Open Dream, Paradwys, Quintonia, Virtual Harmony, and Your World.

Typically, a grid adjustments its loginURI or web site handle — if that’s the case, electronic mail us and tell us and we’ll replace our database.

High 40 grids by land space

The record under is a small subset of current OpenSim grids. We are actually monitoring a complete of two,563 completely different publicly-accessible grids, 428 of which had been energetic this month, and 282 of which revealed their statistics.

All area counts on this record are, every time obtainable, by way of customary area equivalents. Lively person counts embrace hypergrid guests every time potential.

Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.

The uncooked information for this month’s report is right here. An inventory of all energetic grids is right here. And here’s a record of all of the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by reputation. That is very helpful in case you are making a hyperport.

You possibly can see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the way in which again to 2009.

Are you aware of every other grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at [email protected] 

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