Sansar – Ciaran Laval

December 20, 2019

Xiola Changes Address

Word reached me on Twitter, via a whisper, or more a shout, nudge and slight kick from the good people at the Bay City Post, Xiola Linden is changing her address!

“Nooooooo” was my initial response, not Xiola, AKA Sansar Jenn, AKA the artist formerly known as Lexie and maybe known as Lexie in the future. Leaving the Lab? Xiola?

Confirmation of the news was confirmed in the latest edition of Lab Gab with Strawberry talking to a clearly emotional Xiola about changing address after eight glorious years at Linden Lab.

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March 2, 2018March 2, 2018

Kent Bye of Voices of VR Visits Sansar

Here in the UK we’ve been dealing with the Beast from the East meeting Storm Emma and all too predictably, chaos has ensued. We don’t do snow in the UK.

Meanwhile, in the far less chaotic virtual world of Linden Lab’s Sansar, the Beast from Bavaria; Draxtor Despres met a storming VR enthusiast in the shape and form of Kent Bye, of the excellent Voices of VR Podcast.

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January 31, 2018January 31, 2018

SpaceX Govsat-1 Mission Viewed Live In Sansar

The NASA Appollo Museum in Linden Lab’s Sansar was the setting for a virtual world / virtual reality gathering to watch the launch of Falcon 9 as part of the SpaceX Govesat-1 mission.

The blurb from the SpaceX website informed us :

SpaceX is now targeting launch of the GovSat-1 satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Wednesday, January 31, at 4:25 p.m. EST, or 21:25 UTC. The satellite will deploy approximately 32 minutes after launch.

Falcon 9’s first stage for the GovSat-1 mission previously supported the NROL-76 mission from LC-39A in May 2017. SpaceX will not attempt to recover Falcon 9’s first stage after launch.

A fairly healthy sized crowd gathered to watch the liftoff, with the live webcast playing on a screen inside the museum and we got some pretty good views of the action.

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January 19, 2018

Taking a Fast Step Inside an Intel 8th Gen Processor In Sansar

Linden Lab’s Sansar is still very much evolving, I’ve just been to a fashion community meeting, but we are also starting to see some very good use of the platform by business, in particular by Intel.

Their Step Inside Intel 8th Gen Core build in Sansar is a very interesting, very sci-fi feeling build that really gives you a good idea of how Sansar can be utilised.

The build itself gives you the opportunity, as the title suggests, to step inside an Intel 8th Gen Core processor.

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November 1, 2017

Sansar Make Friends Before Unleashing Fashion

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, in Sansar that hasn’t been as straight forward as it could have been because people were not easy to identify, but that’s all changing.

Linden Lab yesterday announced – Sansar’s more fun with friends! Find out how with the new Friends Release :

Sansar will auto-update to the Friends Release, and the next time you login you’ll be able to find people you know in Sansar and grow your friends list by simply searching for their Avatar IDs. With the Friends release, it’s also easier to make friends in desktop mode – just click on avatars to see their names and send friend requests.

An important point to note here is that it’s the Avatar ID you can search for, this is an important distinction to make because an Avatar ID is unique and may not be the same as an Avatar Name, which isn’t unique.

As an example, a search for “Inara Pey” reveals no result, but a search for Inara’s Avatar ID finds, Inara Pey.

Talking of Inara Pey, she has an excellent blog post on this Sansar release : Sansar Friends Release Overview.

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