Pick of the Day: Wandering Isles

I first visited this enchanting experience, created by Nya Alchemi, yesterday evening.  I landed under a covered terrace, surrounded by starry purple night skies and bridges lit by Japanese lanterns.  The sound of tinkling chimes filled the air.  A huge pale moon hung low in the sky:

Wandering Isles 1 Sansar 2 August 2017

You walk, and it soon becomes apparent that you are located on one of a myriad of rocky islands floating mid-air, like in the movie Avatar.  To navigate between islands, you must use Sansar’s teleport feature to jump from one to the other (as the pictogram sign below indicates).  If you are in a VR headset, you use the index trigger on either hand controller to teleport.  If you are not in a VR headset (i.e., you are using Sansar in desktop mode), you press the CTRL button and use the mouse to select exactly where you want to teleport to, and then click the left mouse button while still holding the CTRL key to complete the teleport.  Once you get the knack, it’s easy!

Wandering Isles 2 Sansar 2 August 2017

After hopping from island to island, you land up following a tunnel cut into the rock, and within that tunnel… well, I won’t spoil it for you.  You go explore Wandering Isles.  Enjoy the sushi 🙂 and see if you can locate the black cat!

Pick of the Day: NASA Apollo Museum

Apollo Moon Landing Exhibit Ryan Sansar 1 August 2017

Today I was part of a team of people who went into one of the most exciting new experiences in Sansar, the NASA Apollo Museum and Moonscape.  The purpose of this visit was to allow Draxtor Despres to film a promotional video for Sansar.  This new virtual exhibit hall, which was created by a company named LOOT Interactive, was first presented at The Art Of VR event at Sotheby’s in New York in June.  It is now open to the public via Sansar.

At the entrance, visitors can watch a full-length movie outlining the U.S. space race to the Moon, trace the path of the Apollo 11 astronauts, and explore lifesize models of the Saturn V rocket, Command Module and the Lunar Module.  You can even teleport to the surface of the Moon!

Apollo Moon Landing Astronauts Waving 2 Sansar 1 August 2017

The Apollo Moon Museum is Sansar Newsblog’s Pick of the Day, please drop by for a visit.  You can easily find it in the Sansar Atlas, it’s listed right near the top, or you can just use this URL to get there directly: https://atlas.sansar.com/experiences/lootinteractive/nasa-apollo-museum