OpenSim’s acreage and active users both increased this week, despite the two large grids not reporting statistics.
The public metaverse has amassed the equivalent of 591 standard-sized regions this month, with a total of 1,275 active users. 149,536 local and 48,376 active.
Total registered users fell by about 15,000, primarily because EdMondo, an education grid with more than 10,000 registered users, went down last month. Moreover, Logic Camp, which had over 7,000 registered users last month, did not report any number of users this month.
The following grids were added to the database this month: Andretti Estates, Arcgel, Beyond Infinity, Dark Angel Grid, Devhalla, DowCraft, Funny Rides, Hawaiian Dreams Grid, Life RPG World, LuxeLife Virtual, Neocorex, Obfuse Chill Grid, Rad3DSims, Second Sanctuary, Shork Group Grid, Stress Free Grid, The Originals, The Water’s Edge, TinyOne, and Wiccagrid.
This month, 13 grids were marked as down: AI Grid, DowGrid, Dust, Dyvall, FurrySide, Ipsofacto, Kyle Archipelago, New Genres Grid, SFgrid, Sublimit Metaverse, Virtual Learning Village, Virtual Vista Metaverse, and Willow Lake.
Our statistics do not include most grids running on DreamGrid, a free, easy-to-use version of OpenSim. Because these grids are often private grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source virtual world platform similar to Second Life that allows non-technical people to quickly and inexpensively create virtual worlds and teleport to other virtual worlds. Those with technical skills can run OpenSim worlds on a server for free using DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for the more technically minded, or another distribution, while commercial hosting starts at less than $5 per region.
A list of OpenSim hosting providers is here. If you offer a local rental but are not on this list, please email us!
Download the recommended Firestorm viewer here and learn where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
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Top 25 grids by active users
For general purpose social grids, especially closed grids, the rule of thumb is that the more crowded the better. People looking to make new friends look for grids that already have the most users. Sellers looking to sell content go to the grid with the most potential customers. Event organizers looking for the largest audience – you get the idea.
The top 25 most popular grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 12,526 active users
- OSgrid: 4,420 active users
- GBG World: 2,401 active users
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,097 active users
- DigiWorldz: 1,885 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,509 active users
- Groovy Verse: 1,342 active users
- Cave Grid: 1,303 active users
- Sciattisi Grid: 1,088 active users
- Neverworld: 989 active users
- New Life Italy: 905 active users
- Trianon World: 883 active users
- Sanctum Astra: 828 active users
- AvatarLife: 809 active users
- BloodMoon: 789 active users
- Party destination grid: 736 active users
- AviWorlds: 726 active users
- Craft World: 672 active users
- Littlefield: 603 active users
- Friend Grid: 568 active users
- SpaceGrid: 499 active users
- Eureka World: 462 active users
- Virtualife: 440 active users
- ZetaWorlds: 427 active users
- Endless Grid: 413 active users
Online marketplace for OpenSim content
As of May, Kitely Market had 21,960 product listings, including 42,792 product variants, 37,485 of which were exportable, according to Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner.
Kightly Market has delivered orders to 679 OpenSim grids to date.
Historically, all of the growth in the Kitely market has come from exportable content. This means that shoppers can deliver purchased items directly to their avatar’s inventory in other grids and travel to other grids with their content.
In the early days of OpenSim, many creators considered it a security risk and non-exportable content dominated. However, creators quickly realized that most of Copybot’s content actually came from Second Life, where all of it was non-exportable. And copybot tools and content thieves typically don’t check item permissions before committing the theft. Instead, allowing people to purchase exported content legally, conveniently, and at a reasonable price would completely destroy the copybot economy, leaving only a handful of freebie stores that are not yet aware of their existence and are demolished.
Another source of legal content for OpenSim is Linda Kellie’s products and those of other creators who make their products available for free under Creative Commons and similar licenses. Many official free stores in OpenSim Grid offer these products.
This is similar to how Netflix and other low-cost and free streaming services have dramatically reduced online movie piracy.
Kitely Market is the largest collection of commercial legal content available on OpenSim. You can access both hypergrid-enabled grids and closed private grids. Instructions on how to configure Kitely Market for a closed grid are available here.
Top 40 grids by land area
All region numbers in this list are based on standard regions whenever possible. Active user counts include Hypergrid visitors whenever possible.
There were a total of 312 active grids this month, of which 236 had published statistics. We are currently tracking a total of 2,136 grids.
Many schools, companies or private grids do not make their numbers public.
The raw data for this month’s report is available here. A list of all active grids is here. Below is a list of all HyperGrid supported grids and their HyperGrid addresses, sorted by popularity. This is very useful when creating hyperports.
You can view all past OpenSim statistics, including opinion polls, dating back to 2009 here.
- Wolf Territory Grid: 33,811 locations
- OSgrid: 24,261 regions
- Kitely: 17,720 locations
- Zeta World: 16,938 locations
- Groovy Verses: 15,226 locations
- Alternate Metaverse: 11,768 locations
- Neverworld: 2,805 locations
- DigiWorldz: 2,471 locations
- GBG World: 1,926 locations
- Discovery Grid: 1,614 locations
- Tag grid: 1,561 locations
- Friends Grid: 1,497 locations
- Subversion space: 1,065 regions
- ArtDestiny: 961 locations
- Craft World: 944 locations
- Virtual world grid: 910 regions
- Exotic Reality: 758 locations
- Kinky Haven: 689 locations
- AviWorlds: 643 locations
- AvatarLife: 638 locations
- New Life Italy: 636 locations
- Virtual World Zones: 558 locations
- Littlefield: 466 locations
- Darkheart’s Playground: 422 locations
- Furry World: 358 locations
- BloodMoon: 316 locations
- Coconut Migration: 247 locations
- Open virtual world: 241 locations
- Oligrid: 214 regions
- MisFitz grid: 209 regions
- Japan Open Grid: 201 regions
- Spartan Citadel: 192 locations
- Detection limit: 185 regions
- Adreans-World: 171 locations
- I Love You Grid: 170 locations
- Cater & Friends: 169 locations
- Maze of the Mind: 166 locations
- Seconds: 159 regions
- Nitro: 143 locations
- Logic Camp: 139 regions
Do you know of any other grids that are available to the public but not in my database? Please send me an email. (email protected).
