The Pick of the Day is one Sansar experience which I highlight for you to visit.
You materialize outside the gate of an imposing stone wall. As you enter the gate, a stirring soundtrack swells.
You enter a purple-lit portico and are teleported to the top of the keep’s wide walls.
This is the world of Empyrean – Keep of the Firmament, a Sansar experience created by Nick the Brain Guy.
Today’s Pick of the Day is Sansar Studios’ own Voyage Live: Egypt. You arrive in what appears to be an archaeologist’s office, complete with various artefacts and mounted animal heads. A huge stone head, lit from below, looms over the desk:
A Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton hangs over a map of Egypt spread across a stone table:
At the far end of the office are three doors. Each takes you to an archaeological site which you can explore at leisure. At each site is a red door which teleports you back to the archaeologist’s office.
Voyage Live: Egypt is one of my favourite Sansar experiences! It’s just so well done! Kudos to the team at Sansar Studios for putting such wonderful detail into this experience.
Today’s Pick of the Day experience has a mouthful of a title: 3D Mind Bending Reversperspective Art! This gallery features the art of Patrick Hughes, who created what he calls “Reverspective” painting: an optical illusion on a 3-dimensional surface where the parts of the picture which seem farthest away are actually physically the nearest!
When you stand on one of the red triangles and look at one of the paintings, you cannot see it in anything but sharp, regular perspective:
It’s only when you move off to the side and look at the painting again that you see how it is really constructed:
Very clever! The experience is particularly suited to users in VR headsets, but the effect still works even if you are in desktop mode.
Thank you to Apmel who first spotted this new experience and blogged about it!
Today’s Pick of the Day is Monkey Temple, lovingly and painstakingly created by Anrick and his team at UNIT9. You arrive in a lush, humid jungle, surrounded by the old stone walls of some sort of temple complex, decorated with large carvings of monkey faces. This place really gives you an Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom feeling! As you wander around trying to get your bearings, you discover a couple of games that can be played: a soccer-type game played with a round stone ball, and a sort of basketball-type game played with stone heads.
In the back is gigantic monkey head, jaws agape, that you walk into in order to trigger a teleport to a higher part of the temple. This worked the last time I visited the Monkey Temple. Unfortunately, the teleporter doesn’t seem to work now. Maybe Anrick and his team need to fix it.
Monkey Temple is well worth a visit. It’s a great example of how to create a compelling, immersive atmosphere in a Sansar experience!
Update Sept. 1st: Draxtor Despres reminded me that he did a short video about Anrick and his Monkey Temple experience as part of his Sansar Creator Profile series:
Thanks Drax!