Linden Lab Giving Free Hands-on Preview of Project Sansar This Friday at Linden Lab's San Francisco Headquarters - UPDATE: Event Already Sold-Out, Says Linden PR Rep

Linden Lab is giving a free hands-on preview of Project Sansar this coming Friday at Linden Lab's San Francisco headquarters, according to an SF events calendar site:

This interactive virtual reality workshop will provide a hands-on preview of the new 3D virtual experience platform, code-named Project Sansar, being developed by Linden Lab, the makers of the popular virtual world Second Life. This new platform will enable people to virtually walk through 3D …

Pretty strange to see this apparently open-to-the-public event promoted on a popular general interest SF event site when Project Sansar is supposed to be in closed Alpha with early users under heavy NDA. But there it is. So if you happen to be in San Francisco this Friday and can attend, please report your reactions back here!

UPDATE, 4:05pm: Bad news if you haven't RSVPed already from Linden Lab's Peter Gray:

"This AIA event is sold-out, and attendees will be signing NDAs." (Presumably he means the American Institute of Architects, which is also pretty interesting.)

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[Pete Linden]

This AIA event is sold-out, and attendees will be signing NDAs.

[Wagner James Au]

Thanks Pete, updating. By AIA you mean American Institute of Architects?

[Seymore Steamweaver]

Wow. That's great.

[Hype Hype]

This is the hype creation machine at work. Make it all seem secret while average Bob can just walk in to watch, but still needs to sign an NDA, once average Bob walks to the pub and has a few drinks he will get all woozy about the NDA and go bla bla bla

Once the hype machine is at full speed Linden Lab will then offer a pre order trying to rake in thousands if not millions of Dollars. That is how game companies do it, offering limited alpha or beta access and then combining it with a hype pre sale to make cash.

I like this sentence: "This new product will enable people to virtually walk through 3D"

Hmmm like we have been doing the previous decade.

[Dartagan Shepherd]

Heheh, signed an NDA for VR tech that any coder that can wrangle an API can put together. The barrier to entry for VR is lower than it's ever been, as well as more hyped than substance.