I am still on vacation from work, and I slept in super late this morning, dragging myself out of bed at 11:30 a.m. (hey! I am on. holidays.)…
While I was asleep, two major events happened on two different blockchain-based social VR/virtual world platforms:
- Decentraland launched its official opening to the general public; and
- Somnium Space officially launched version 2.0 of its social VR platform.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t expecting either event to happen first thing in the morning in my time zone, so I was caught flatfooted and unprepared. (Bad, BAD blogger!)
And so far, my day has been an exercise in frustration:
- When I log into Decentraland, it doesn’t remember my custom avatar name (which I paid 100 MANA for), and my avatar appearance, generating a random newbie name and appearance instead.
- I am having problems downloading the latest update of the client software for Somnium Space 2.0 (apparently, their server is down).
Both platforms are swarming with new users (there’s a treasure chest hunt going on at Decentraland), and their support teams are (understandably) swamped with requests for assistance. So I am just going to have to be patient.
Expect blogposts about both platforms once I sort out all my technical problems! As a social VR and virtual worlds blogger, I should have been on top of this, and I wasn’t. I’m so sorry!
