There is excitement in Linden Lab: in recent days, the official Twitter account of Sansar (@SansarOfficial) announced many times (the first time May 21, then May 26, finally June 6) that the “creator beta” of the new virtual reality platform of the developer of Second Life “will open this summer” and that you can still apply for early access through https://www.sansar.com.

Sansar: creator beta will open this summer

At the opening of creator beta Sansar won’t have a support for Linux and Mac users, even if they’ll be able to access Sansar through Bootcamp, whic btw is an app to install Windows on Mac, since MacOS system is not yet able to run virtual reality.

For now, Sansar works on PCs (Windows) with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive viewers. Given accumulated delays compared to initial forecasts (after the opening to the first test users already in 2015 the public opening should have been due by the end of 2016), it’s not excluded that even the creator beta there will be not at the end of June but at the end of Augusto or in September.

Will it be worth to open to the public in 2018?

At that point, however, the new consoles and virtual reality viewers generation could be at the doors: virtual reality now requires high resolutions (2160×1200) and high FPS (not less than 90) to offer experiences really without disturbance and fatigue to the sight, so performance 5 times higher than current ones, as already promises AMD for the next consoles generation will make the difference.

Wil Linden Lab try to open to public with a system still “calibrated” on a tools generation destined to go out of the market by next 12-18 months, or will it prefer to wait still a half a year or two, also to take advantage of the expected fall in viewers’ price?

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