WATCH: A Machinima Postcard of 2077, the Hit Cyberpunk City in Sansar

Huckleberry Hax, who makes acclaimed machinima in Second Life, shot this impressive montage of 2077, a very impressive cyberpunk city in Sansar created by "C3rb3rus". Hax created it, he writes, because it's the first Sansar experience to lure him from Second Life back into Linden Lab's new virtual world:

My visit to 2077 is the first time I can say that I’ve felt immersed in Sansar as a desktop user. The stunning visuals combined with the level of detail (there is so much there to explore) and perfectly synchronised sound effects made an hour pass almost invisibly. I was genuinely reluctant to log out.

I don't see much interactivity in the experience itself, but it's such great visual candy, maybe it doesn't need to be, at least not yet. I'm also left with two questions:

• Is 2077 a more impressive and detailed experience than the one created by Linden Lab and Warner Brothers as an official promotion of Spielberg's Ready Player One? Because it kinda looks that way.
• Does Sansar's 2077 have anything to do with Cyberpunk 2077, the greatly-anticipated RPG?

I've sent that last question to "C3rb3rus", but the first question is for visitors to both 2077 in Sansar and Aechs’ Garage in Sansar.

Comments

[Huckleberry Hax]

I visited RP1 today. I think it's a different sort of experience than 2077, more of an exhibition than an immersive environment. Its level of detail and texturing is undeniably stunning, and they have gone to town on using structures which cast all manner of interesting and beautiful shadows. Were I a VR user, this alone might well keep me in there for a good while. As a desktop user, however, I have to say that the thing I found most interesting after about 15 minutes of walking around and spotting all the various SF artefacts was listening to the reactions of the CES booth visitors entering and experiencing VR for the first time.

Oh, and it's also quite difficult to find from the Sansar starting page. It could be better promoted and signposted.

[YsabelleStewart]

I only went into Sansar for the first time the other day, and I was impressed with the textures. The base line in there with materials and textures is obviously going to be better than Second Life which has stuff going back to 2003. 2077 is an impressive place. I wandered around there and took a bunch of pics. It did remind me of Ready Player One a bit, because Max Headroom seemed to be playing in one of the videos.