{"id":5759,"date":"2016-07-06T19:29:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2016-07-06T19:29:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T18:29:17","slug":"project-sansar-clouds-discovery-and-its-not-second-life-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5759","title":{"rendered":"Project Sansar Clouds, Discovery And It’s Not Second Life 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Project Sansar is making the news again and we learn a little bit more each time an article is published. A couple of articles I’ve read today add some more context, it’s not earth shattering news but it adds a little bit more.<\/p>\n

The first article is by Edward C. Baig over at USA Today and comes with an accompanying video : Second Life’s creators try for a third \u2014 in virtual reality<\/a>.\u00a0The part I find interesting in this article is in terms of discovery. That means how people will be able to find Project Sansar experiences and although this has been mentioned before, the way it is described in this article really hits home :<\/p>\n

Linden Lab’s design aims to give Sansar creators more power to attract an audience to their experiences than they do in Second Life, where visitors may stumble upon the places by chance. Some people never find such places and don’t stick around.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you search Google for “I want to learn French” you might find in the search results a virtual reality experience in Sansar where you can actually “go to virtual places in France, meet French people and have French dialogue at the boulangerie,\u201d Altberg says.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The key difference there being that unlike Second Life, you should be able to discover Project Sansar experiences via the web. I know you can search Second Life from the web now, but the Project Sansar approach sounds more organic in terms of discovery.<\/p>\n

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This could be very powerful for book launches, live music, storytelling and shared community experiences.<\/p>\n

Here’s the video that accompanies that article but the article itself is well worth a read and covers more than I have.<\/p>\n