Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Sansar
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Here's a mysterious update to the Sansar platform and website going offline and then back on again last week before the Christmas holiday: Steve Moriya, VP at Sansar owner Wookey, posted this in the official Sansar Discord server on Christmas Eve: hi there. this is steve from the wookey management – sansar team. i thought…
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Live Sansar platform pic from 12/23 afternoon PT via @wurfi. Update 3, 12/23, 1:40pm PT: The Sansar platform is reportedly back online. @wurfi (teddy bear in hat) just sent the in-world pic above as confirmation. Update 2, 12/23: As of at least 12:35PM PT today, the Sansar website is back online. However, going by user…
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After basically becoming the queen of Second Life YouTubers, Ms. Carmen King reluctantly donned her dusty Vive headset –"I get insane motion sickness… [and] "normally can't last 10 minutes in VR", she says — to re-visit the social VR world of Sansar. "First time I tried," she casually notes, while getting strapped in, "I saw…
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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…
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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"…
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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…
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In case you missed the announcement, starting tomorrow is the first major live music event in Sansar as a non-Linden Lab, now Wookey-owned platform – a virtual world music festival featuring Fatboy Slim called Lost Horizon: For the first time ever, you can experience one of the most iconic British festival destinations from the comfort of…
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If you thought Sansar was destined for obscurity after Linden Lab sold its virtual world platform to an obscure company called Wookey, think again: Aiming to recreate that festival experience in VR, the team will be replicating real-life attractions from Shangri-La, including the Gas Tower, Freedom and SHITV stages. Performers will include Carl Cox, Fatboy…
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Here's the latest machinima from beloved metaverse artist Bryn Oh, who now has a Patreon page which you should definitely consider supporting if you're among the hundreds of thousands who've loved her artworks over the years. This new piece, called "Hand", was shot in both Second Life and Sansar, and as with some of her…
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In case you missed it (and it sort of fell off my own radar during the whole global pandemic thing), there's an update to the early March news that beloved Linden Lab staffer Torley departed the company after 14 years: He along with some other Lindens have moved over to Wookey, the obscure company with…
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