Category: Sansar Pick of the Day

The Pick of the Day is one Sansar experience which I highlight for you to visit.

Pick of the Day: Colossus Rising

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Today’s Pick of the Day is one of the original experiences crafted by Sansar Studios, called Colossus Rising. Surprisingly, it’s not listed up near the top of the Sansar Atlas listings, among Linden Lab’s featured experiences! You must scroll pretty much all the way to the bottom of the Atlas to find this one, but it’s worth looking for! This experience reminds me of the famous classic Cyan puzzle games Myst and Riven, so if you loved playing those, you’ll love Colossus Rising.

You are transported to a rocky, barren desert landscape. The wind whistles past you, and red dust fills the air, as you explore the remains of a mysteriously abandoned civilization. Everywhere there is the clank and hum of machinery; you see large canvas windmills and gigantic metal gears turning. You climb the wooden ramps and scaffolding, carefully balance your way across a long, narrow beam strung high above the ground, and jump onto the automated gondolas that move back and forth between raised platforms. Tusks, bleached bones, and the discarded armour of giants litter the landscape.

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Come, restless wanderer, and puzzle over what happened here. In my opinion, this is still one of the best experiences in Sansar. Well worth a visit!

Pick of the Day: Digital Media Productions

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Digital Media Productions is a well thought-out studio space built by Chris Jackson (here’s his web site). When you arrive in this experience, you find yourself in a lobby with several doors leading to various rooms.

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Notice the heptagon mats on the floor? They are teleporters. When you walk to a door, and your avatar crosses the heptagon, you are teleported to either a new scene in the same experience (local teleport/blue heptagon) or a different experience (remote teleport/yellow heptagon). This is an intuitive and well-designed system that alone makes a visit to Digital Media Productions worthwhile, just to see how you can tie together various scenes and experiences into a coherent, easily navigable whole.  Bravo Chris!

There are doors to a lounge, a gallery of pictures and sculptures, an R&D workroom, a T-shirt shop (coming soon!) and a room mysteriously marked “Project X“.

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There are some items in the gallery that I would love to see in the Sansar Store, like the table with the human feet! Chris Jackson has already put some freebies up for sale in the Sansar Store. I’m sure that there will soon be more creations to come from Chris.

Pick of the Day: Clockworks Club Demo

I first stumbled upon the Clockworks Club Demo (created by Galen) a couple of days ago, and I thought it was really cool. It reminded me of nights when I was in my thirties, hanging out in Winnipeg’s gay bars. This could easily become a regular hang-out spot for avatars to meet, talk, and dance in the future.

(I created this video of what I see in my Oculus Rift headset using the Oculus Mirror software and the OBS software. Please be kind, I am really a clueless newbie at this, I am not a video editor, and it is sort of “gonzo” video journalism! The nightclub video screen is playing a video of DJ Tiesto spinning “Confirmation” by Fred Baker & Nyram.)

Then I discovered from his Sansar Atlas listing that every light in the nightclub is scripted (using C#) to sync up with a configurable beat rate (BPM). Cool! Sansar users can now buy Galen’s control scripts from the Sansar Store and learn how to use them in their own Sansar experiences at his web site, Metaverse Machines.

Pick of the Day: oYo Mesh Studio Showroom

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The oYo Mesh Studio Showroom is a good example of how to promote a brand using an experience in Sansar.  oYo is perhaps best known for their brands of breedable animals in Second Life, but they also appear to be creating and selling home furnishings and landscaping items for Sansar. And I have seen both oYo creators Cato and Alfy at various in-world meetings, sporting various innovative avatar attachments such as curly hair, cigarettes, bandannas and even a companion German Shepherd!

Their showroom for their Sansar products is a spacious modern home with exposed brickwork, hardwood floors and an adjoining pool. I can picture myself relaxing by the pool, sipping on something cool and watching the sun glint off the water. Inside the house are tasteful arrangements of home furnishings, with signs advertising prices in Sansar dollars.

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For a second I thought the candles on the coffee table had particle flames, but it’s just very clever meshwork, created by adding an emissive map to provide a glow effect!

The house is surrounded by a colourful street scene with palm trees, building facades, even some construction scaffolding, and towering mountains in the background.

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Everyone thinking about becoming a content creator and seller in Sansar (and let’s face it, that’s for whom the Sansar open creator beta is really intended) should visit the oYo Showroom now and take notes on how it’s done with class and style!