Zarrakan Productions put out a video of a meeting with Danger Linden, Drax, Safia W., and Troy Linden. Much of the discussion is about Sansar and what Linden Lab is doing. Below is the video and my summary of it.

As usual, I paraphrase. Listen/watch the video for better context and exact wording.

Content starts at Tme Mark (TM) 03:42. Introductions and how Danger and Troy came to Second Life and some of their work history.

Danger was Senior Product Manager for Sansar but is now 100% with SL. Troy is a Senior Producer, a product owner. I am still not clear on how much of his time is with Sansar or SL.

8:10 – Sansar started from almost scratch.  Continue reading →

Indigo Mertel caught an article titled: Second Life Creator Linden Lab Prepares To Test Parallel VR Universe.  There are some new bits of information about Project Sansar, aka Second Life 2.0. A quick summary of the new information follows:

Linden Lab plans to have testers in Sansar starting the end of July, 2015.

Sansar runs at 75 frames per second (FPS) and will run at 90 FPS to meet the expected Oculus Rift requirements.

The Long Walk by Carthalis Rossini, on Flickr

First one into the new world will by handpicked, skilled creators.

Additional beta testers will be invited into Sansar the first half of 2016.

A Sansar version 1.0 will be ready by the end of 2016.

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You probably know that Project SANSAR aka SL 2.0, is going to use a proprietary viewer. If we were really lucky, there would be no viewer. The new world would be web ready. But, I get the impression that is out. More and more I think it will be via app only.

ISTE22april2010_006(b) by Chris Smith, on Flickr

In any event an open source viewer for SANSAR  is not currently in the cards, at least for the initial release and probably for sometime after the main release.  Continue reading →