Oculus/Facebook recently introduced Oculus Home User Created Spaces, and longtime VR enthusiast/creator David Hall just shot this impressive walkthrough -- "Homes" is a bit of a misnomer, because as you'll see, it's powerful enough to create a whole mini-world. (Though as Oculus' specs say, only "250 meter cube centered on your home will be navigable"). Fortunately for us, David was featured in the original promo videos for Linden Lab's Sansar (watch below), so he's the perfect person to compare and contrast it with Oculus Homes:
"So there is still a good bit about what Facebook is doing that I don't know," he says. "I have been in Sansar for a couple years and they have come a long way. I like the workflow a bit better in Homes, I like what Facebook is doing with the inventory system and giving people loot boxes. I love the high quality interactive items you can get in Homes, like the bow and the laser gun. Sansar has kind of leaned pretty heavily on the community to create these things and you get varying levels of quality and varying degrees of understanding about the capabilities of the platform."
On the other side of the ledger, Sansar has more robust features (at least now):
"Sansar has a much more robust scene creation interface," as he puts it. "You have a lot more control over the environment and can change things like object material in their editor. Facebook doesn't have an editor yet, just upload and move things around. Sansar also has an amazing avatar and avatar accessory system. I currently plan to create for both, but am excited to see what Facebook is planning. I really like the direction they have taken so far.
"I just finished that book History of the Future. It details how at the onset of the Facebook acquisition of Oculus a Metaverse app was something Zuck was extremely passionate about and thought it would be something Facebook would be uniquely suited to create. He was so serious that they were considering the purchase of Unity. I am hopeful that what we have seen so far is only the tip of the iceberg."
Agreed! For myself, I do want to get more clarity on how far Oculus plans to take Facebook's approach to personal data and advertising into the virtual realm.
Hat tip: Fellow Sansar creator Gindipple
It's interesting that Facebook Home is now even considered in relation with Sansar. It means that it has gone a long way
Posted by: TonyVT Skarredghost | Saturday, March 02, 2019 at 02:13 PM