As far as I can tell, this is the first official platform demo on YouTube for Sansar since it was taken over by Wookey, and it's pretty striking: Where once Sansar was promised to be a successor to Second Life and a WordPress for virtual worlds, it's now positioned as a "turnkey virtual venue platform" for "record labels, artists, festivals, creative agencies, and brands" (their words).
Not a criticism! It's a smart move to target the live music/concert market in the COVID age. And I do like a lot of the functionality they are showing off in the video, especially avatar-to-avatar VR meet-and-greets for artists.
On the other side, live music for enterprise clients does seem to be Sansar's sole focus now. If you go to the website, there's no longer anything on the homepage about user-generated content -- except perhaps the tiniest hint with the wee link to the old Sansar Atlas (where user-made worlds are still featured) way at the bottom of the page.
If you told me six years ago when Sansar was announced that this is the pivot it would make, I'd say you were raving. Then again, if you told me I'd be sitting here in my home writing this after five months of quarantine due to a global pandemic, I wouldn't even have the words to process that reality.
Some people can think outside the box. Others become ceo of LL.
Posted by: Justin | Tuesday, August 04, 2020 at 06:59 PM