Thanks to all my friends who joined me, hope you had fun. I had a great time playing my Mixtape in #VR at #StereoWaveFest in #Sansar. Here is a highlights vid from the Stream where you can see me turning up late for my own show 🤣 #SocialVR pic.twitter.com/11zrJOaygT
— LokiEliot (@Demonkid) August 16, 2020
OK this looks fun: Well-known SL personality Loki Elliot taking his incredibly detailed 80s nostalgia persona into Sansar to perform in a full VR rig (Valve Index with Vive trackers in this case) in front of a fairly large audience during Sansar's recent Stereowave Music Festival for community DJs.
And best of all, those flying objects being tossed back and forth between people from all over the world are not scripted:
"The beach balls and a few other objects were fully physics-enabled," Loki tells me. "In VR it's simple fun to be able to pick up and throw things." Much of the audience was already there for the festival, but Loki brought in his native crew, so to speak:
"Of course I told my friends, some of which came over from SL, kinda like a day trip somewhere different."
None of this is to suggest he's preferring one platform over another:
"Hard to compare 'cos I only use Sansar in VR mode," as he puts it to me. "Second Life is tried and tested desktop virtual world with years of evolution, while Sansar is more my choice for VR exploration. Can't do VR in Second Life. Also VR to me is a different type of experience.
"I will continue to use Second Life for what I do there, but Sansar or VRChat," he tells me grinning, "it's for a different type of experience, a different itch to scratch."
As a new wave of virtual worlds evolve, I suspect we'll see more of that dynamic -- groups of friends jumping from one virtual world to another depending on their current itch.
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