Helios, a new social VR platform by SubLight Games that I first wrote about last month, appears to be attracting interest from Sansar users. According to a post made to their official blog today:
I’ll say it again. This has been an amazing week. We have had the first (and second) player created worlds. A record breaking eight concurrent players participating in the weekly Discord Community Test. Daily impromptu player hangouts also reaching up to eight participants. Players helping players make maps. Players helping players make avatars. Rareden was also able to get the Documentation page (work in progress) set up. At the request of a community member, we also added a third person camera to desktop mode. More functionality to come.
The Sansar community has planted its flag firmly in Helios this week as most of our recent Discord members are Sansar alumni. They are bringing with them a passion for creation that is truly remarkable. In fact, both player-created worlds added to Helios this week were from recently joined members.
The newly-created worlds are by Zod and C3rb3rus (who appears to have recreated his Sansar world Cerb’s Lounge within Helios, complete with flying dragon!).
While the company has handed out 120 early-access Steam keys, going forward they are changing how they are handing out keys:
We’ve handed out over 120 Steam keys. With this in mind and after a good deal of internal debate, we have decided to move to a referral system when handing out keys. This is to make sure that Alpha participants are going to be active members of the community, whether that be showing up at organized tests or bringing their own content into Helios. If you don’t know someone already in the Alpha and still want a key, feel free to ask for one in the request-a-steam-key channel in the Helios Discord. Once we re-open our Alpha to the general public, keys will be handed out on a first come, first serve basis. It is entirely possible that hanging out in the Discord and being an active member of the community will get you a key before that.
If you are interested in following Helios as they grow, you can visit their website and their Steam page, or follow them on YouTube or Twitter. They also have a Discord server, as well as a Patreon page.
