Google Plus continues to be the social media destination of choice for OpenSim users, due its usability, sharing features, and support for identities based on avatar names.
I currently track 175 virtual communities that have some relation to OpenSim, and just collected the members counts of each group. See the full list of metaverse communities here [3].
Of course, you don’t have to be a member to view the posts in the public communities, so the amount of interest in, say, The Adult Metaverse community, may be under counted.
This month for the time time I started tracking collections as well, which are a new feature in Google Plus.
Top 15Â communities
- Second Life and other Virtual Worlds [4]: 2,564 members
- OpenSim Virtual [5]: 1,836 members
- The Adult Metaverse [6]: 1,477 members
- Summer of Arts 2015 [7]: 1211 members
- Virtual Identity [8]: 862 members
- OSgrid.org [9]: 808 members
- Kitely Virtual [10]: 606 members
- Arts in Virtual Worlds [11]: 565 members
- Metaverse Week in Review [12]: 455 members
- OpenSim Collection [13]: 444 members
- Virtual Pedagogy [14]: 431 members
- Virtual World Video [15]: 429 members
- Content creators of the virtual worlds [16]: 422 members
- Practical Uses for Virtual Worlds [17]: 406 members
- Hypergrid Safari [18]: 390 members
Communities that have gained the most members since March
- Second Life and other Virtual Worlds [4]: 336 new members
- The Adult Metaverse [6]: 160Â new members
- Blender for OpenSim [19]:Â 128Â new members
- OpenSim Virtual [5]: 128Â new members
- OpenSim Everything [20]: 111Â new members
Major communities with the largest growth rates
- Blender for OpenSim [19]: 70% increase from 184 to 312 members
- Immersive World Opportunities [21]: 61% increase from 111 to 179 members
- OpenSim Everything [20]:Â 42%Â increase from 264Â to 375Â members
- Great Canadian Gridders eh [22]:Â 40%Â increase from 173 to 243 members
- Virtual Highway [23]:Â 40%Â increase from 116 to 159 members
New on our list this month
- Sim on a Stick Users Group [24]
- Women in Virtual Reality [25]
- GIL – Hypergrid Life [26]
- Opensim Veranstaltungen [27]
- Keng City [28]
- TheKaz Grid [29]
- Genesis Grid [30]
- Promotion for virtual worlds and everything in ’em [31]
- Opensim Free [32]
New collections
- InWorldz, Second Life, O [33]pensim, Metaverse [33]
- OpenSim Collection [13]
- Summer of Arts 2015 [7]
- Hypergrid Resources [34]
Are there any communities or collections I’m missing? Let me know in the comments below, or email me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com [35].