There have been plenty of rumours about the name of Linden Lab’s nextgen virtual world. Inara Pey recently asked : Is SANSAR the name of the Lab’s new virtual experiences platform? The answer, as an eagle eyed Marianne McCann noticed is, pretty much yes.
Rumours had been around for a while, as Inara Pey noted :
For the last several days, speculation has been circulating on whether the name SANSAR might be the name of the Lab’s new next generation platform for virtual experiences.
Speculation first came via a post made to the SL Universe forums, and has since appeared on both the Profile feeds and forums, relating to trademarks filed by the Lab on April 10th, 2015, namely:
In addition, in October 2014, Ascio Technologies, Inc., filed a domain name registration for projectsansar.com listing Linden Research as the Domain Administrator.
Now Linden Lab have revealed that this is indeed true, that the nextgen virtual world does indeed have a codename of Project Sansar.
On Twitter, Linden Lab Tweeted :
It’s true: #ProjectSansar is the codename/project name of our new virtual experience platform. Final name to be revealed in the future. #VR
— Linden Lab (@LindenLab) May 5, 2015
However, as this is just a codename, people should not get too bent out of shape. More importantly I wonder if this now means that Draxtor Despres can play more of his interviews with the Lindens now? They had to be edited when he visited the Lab because the project name was still a closely guarded secret. This of course does not tell us much about Linden Lab’s nextgen virtual world, but I would expect to hear more rumours about that over the summer.
I also suspect that I will have to stop called project Sansar a nextgen virtual world and get with the program and call it a new virtual experience platform, or NVEP for short.