SL2 Not viewer 2, but the NEW NEW SL?

[Madelaine McMasters]

Hi Fitch,

There is no concrete information yet, so you'll have to keep putting up with the fear mongering.

Here's what's been announced so far...

http://www.lindenlab.com/releases/linden-lab-invites-first-virtual-experience-creators-to-project-sansar-testing

And here are some pertinent forum threads. Watch for posts by Ebbe Linden...

https://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/Linden-Lab-is-building-a-NEW-virtual-world/td-p/2753476

https://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/My-Opinion-About-The-Next-Generation-Platform/td-p/2951524

[Madelaine McMasters]

Hi Fitch,

There is no concrete information yet, so you'll have to keep putting up with the fear mongering.

Here's what's been announced so far...

http://www.lindenlab.com/releases/linden-lab-invites-first-virtual-experience-creators-to-project-sansar-testing

And here are some pertinent forum threads. Watch for posts by Ebbe Linden...

https://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/Linden-Lab-is-building-a-NEW-virtual-world/td-p/2753476

https://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/My-Opinion-About-The-Next-Generation-Platform/td-p/2951524

[Lindal Kidd]

Fitch, from what I've read so far, LL appears to be aiming to make Sansar appealing to a much wider range of clients...particularly corporate clients, professional content creators, and website developers.  It will probably incorporate a much larger degree of virtual reality (you know, 3D goggles and body/hand/motion sensors.)  While the latter could be a draw for current SL residents, I suspect the former will work to make Sansar less appealing to the current population of Second Life.

For an analogy, consider Adobe Flash.  It's a set of software tools that lets designers dress up their websites with video and make them more functional and appealing.  Now imagine that someone (we'll call them LL) creates a set of software tools that lets people build a virtual reality as a part of their website.  Their world, their imagination, right?  But not A virtual world...MANY virtual worlds.  I'm sure that some of them at least will be linked into a larger world, something like the OpenSim Hypergrid.

Sansar is currently in a closed beta...you had to be invited to participate, and the invitees were people skilled in making mesh content.  

But I think SL will be around for a long time!  Philip Rosedale hit on a winning formula when he invented it, and nobody, not even LL, has managed to come up with a better one.

Disclaimer:  The above is speculation and opinion.  I have access to the same rumors and vague pronouncements as anyone else, but zero inside knowledge.  Throw it in the "rumor" bin.