Sansar's Fat Boy Slim Show a Success for Wookey, Says Longtime Virtual World Creator (Comment of the Week)

Fatboy's Lost Horizon set in Sansar via Tim A's Twitter

I don't have a PC/VR rig powerful enough to catch the Fatboy Slim/Lost Horizon show staged on Sansar under its new owner Wookey, but longtime virtual world user/creator Tim A did, and here's his take:

I checked it out - I love Fatboy Slim, and it was a lot of fun to see him. It was pretty impressive -- the avatar moved in real-time, with the movements matching what was shown on the video screen. Things have come a long, long way since the "U2 in SL" days. Wookey had set up a ton of NPCs, so it was hard to get a good count, but from folks I was talking to in the area, probably about 50 folks hanging out.

Sansar hit a peak concurrency on Steam of 180 during the Lost Horizon show, so I bet overall attendance was much more than 50 -- probably upwards of 500, I'd estimate.

The show didn't go off without a hitch, however, Tim continues:

Fatboy Slim brought his daughter up to help spin at one point, it was pretty sweet. He was closing with Right Here, Right Now... but the stream got messed up and cut in and out. So we missed the grand final, but all in all, pretty darn cool. I was in my Valve Index and the immersion and audio were great...

All in all, it was really nice to feel immersed in a music performance. I regularly see live music in first life, and I've missed it during the lock down. I'll probably check out more in the future.

I definitely miss live music during these pandemic times too. I am curious why Sansar/Lost Horizon staged the show in a space that looks like a real world nightclub -- as opposed to, say, a spinning asteroid, or on the back of a whale, or another "only in a virtual world" coolness. To really make virtual world concerts sustainable after the lockdown lifts, we're going to need to offer experiences that concert goers can't get at Coachella.

Comments

[FlipperPA]

You know, I was wondering the same thing... why a boring old clubby club? I didn't quite have flashbacks to Club Elite in Federal with BigJohn Jade, but still. :)

When watching Apple TV, the screen savers often seem superior to the channels that stream (looking at you, cable news). Sansar sometimes feels the same - they have this amazing portal teleport astral plane you're in while scenes load... it is often better than where you end up! But credit where credit is due, this is the first time I've hung out in Sansar for more than a few minutes, maybe they're finding their niche. Here's hoping there are more reasons to in the near future!

[Malburns]

Also wondered why everything was set to night-time, given that the real festival is as much at day-time. A sense of time passing from day to night in the environment would have been the icing on what was a superb and so-far unique cake.