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Second Life CEO Ebbe Altberg speaks about their VR project, ‘Sansar’

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An interesting article concerning Sansar & fragmentation of users:

Second Life: Sansar Fargmentation Anxiety

The meaning being it will be a platform that people can use to build experiences just like we build blogs and web sites. Blogs and web sites are separated things. They fragment users.

I'm really excited about the whole "building experiences" direction because that's exactly what many of our historical communities are doing right now. We've never been part of the SL mainstream (whatever that is) but have essentially used SL to travel back in time to live, learn & explore.

If Sansar provides us with tools that make it easier to develop our historical environments it would be wonderful. Many of the ideas that I would have loved to implement never got off the ground because they required extensive scripting including "workarounds" for the standard environment.

As for having to use portals to connect to other "experiences" we're essentially doing that already as very few of the historical regions are actually connected together. If portals provide us with a better experience than the current teleporting does I'm all for it.

Looks like Sansar has the potential to actually bring us closer together rather than farther apart.

Second Life CEO Ebbe Altberg speaks about their VR project, ‘Sansar’

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Hot off the press:

Linden Lab Invites First Virtual Experience Creators to Project Sansar Testing

SAN FRANCISCO - August 18, 2015 - Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, today announced that a small number of creators have been exclusively invited to be the first to help test its new platform for virtual experiences, codenamed Project Sansar.

Have you been invited? Know anyone that has?

Second Life CEO Ebbe Altberg speaks about their VR project, ‘Sansar’

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I'm hoping that we will all find renewed energy, Jacon!

Perhaps we will, especially if Sansar addresses some of the challenges that grind us down on a daily basis (cost being high on my list). There are a lot of projects that I've just never tackled because I'm out of space.

I think that it's kind of exciting to be able to start fresh and build a brand new estate based on all the knowledge & experience I've gained in SL over the years.

Second Life CEO Ebbe Altberg speaks about their VR project, ‘Sansar’

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Long,flowingskirts - we can only dream!!

Second Life CEO Ebbe Altberg speaks about their VR project, ‘Sansar’

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Given that SL is LL's major source of income it's not surprisingthey are reluctant to change the current revenue model.

After all, the "land barons" are happy, LL is happy, SL is bringing in money and it's only the "little guys" (like me!!) that find the land fees too high. In a sense I'm happy as well because it doesn't look like SL is going to go bankrupt anytime soon.

As Ebbe says ( Ask the CEO ):

In general we will lower the cost of land (For Project Sansar). We continue to look at optins for SL but I can't promise any changes there.

At least they are going another route with Sansar land costs and if it's reasonable it will be a big incentive to switching over.

Though I also hate the thought ofleaving allmy inventory behind I'm pretty much resigned to it. I figure I'll build it up in Sansar over time as I continue to spend time in both worlds.

With regard to inventory transfer, it's not only the technical difficulties but the intellectual property ones. It's my understanding that the majority of items I've purchased are licensed for SL only. I'd hate to muddy the waters of Sansar with a lot of content that wasn't sanctioned by the intellectual property owners.

I believe that they will eventually have inworld building tools and you will be able to use free software like Blender & Gimp etc. just as you can now with SL.

Only time will tell how it will all shake out. In the meantime, I'm consuming large amounts of chocolate to keep me positive

Second Life CEO Ebbe Altberg speaks about their VR project, ‘Sansar’

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If I remember correctly, Sansar is using voxels for landscaping and there is speculation that this may also be extended to building in general.

I don't know much about voxels, except they allow terraformers to create caves instead of faking it as we do now. Here's some more information:

Are voxels the future?

Voxels can easily do things that would otherwise be difficult for polygonal models. Voxels are more malleable for example, its surprisingly difficult to model holes with a triangular mesh, but very easy with voxels. Likewise, voxels enable models to take on very fine details such as bumps and imperfections without resorting to graphical hacks such as bump mapping, which merely simulate bumps by playing with how light interacts with the surfaces of objects. Voxels turn out to be a much more natural way to digitally represent the real world.

Second Life CEO Ebbe Altberg speaks about their VR project, ‘Sansar’

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Could the Oculus Rift help give Second Life a second life?

This sounds promising:

Another change is in making things easier to build. As with Second Life, Sansars success will hang on what people create in it, and when the first players begin exploring this week, the place will be a ghost town. So Linden Lab is making the tools to create virtual objects in Sansar easier to find. It will also support objects created with external 3D modeling and editing tools, much as a word processor supports documents created in other word processors.

Second Life CEO Ebbe Altberg speaks about their VR project, ‘Sansar’

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You're very welcome, Louis-Francis

I've read that there will be a 5% tax on sales of goods - both inworld & from an online store. As a creator that's fine with me as long as land prices are cheaper. Right now I'm paying much more that 5% of sales in land fees.

I haven't seen anything yet about upload fees. I have seen where they want to make uploads much easier which would be great.

Don't know if they're going to have the concept of Land Impact. It's a good question.

I like the idea of having one Master Account from which you can control many avatars.

I'm also hoping that by LL keeping control of the viewer, content theft will be a lot harder. We can dream

Second Life CEO Ebbe Altberg speaks about their VR project, ‘Sansar’

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Second Life CEO Ebbe Altberg speaks about their VR project, Sansar

Some interesting points:

Creating:

Things might be a bit technical at first given some of the complexities of 3d modeling in Autodesks May a (3D computer graphics software).However, everything afterward can be publishedwith simply a push of a button which -in doing so- includes a link that can be shared and explored by others.

My understanding is that they will branch out to other modeling software like Blender & that there will be building inworld as well.

Economy:

Compared to its cousin, land in Sansar will be cheaper and more abundant. However, instead of charging users upfront, Sansar will be making up the difference by capitalizing on the transactions made and taking asales tax of the platforms totalGDP. This strategy will allow for meaningful infrastructure expansion and lower the financial barrier to entry.

I'm hoping this is a good thing (since I like having a lot of land) but have no idea what this means to the retail side of my business or affordability in general.

For more Sansar information see:

Sansar: news and updates from the media and from the Lab

It is acknowledged that content creation tools can be a barrier to adoption / use; it is therefore a goal with Sansar to make it easier to make things in Sansar than it is in Second Life

Your thoughts?

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 06 Oct 2016 06:36:06AM

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