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Sansar Survey: Only About 1 in 10 Have Signed Its NDA

Sansar NDA

Here's the results of

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trying to determine active interest among NWN readers in Linden Lab's Sansar. ("Active" as in "interested enough to actually sign a contract to gain early access.") Surprisingly to me, just over 1 in 10 of our respondents said they've signed the NDA, while just over 1 in 4 have requested early access (but haven't yet been given the NDA form).

Assuming this data scales to Second Life users and people generally interested in virtual worlds who read this blog -- a medium-large assumption, but let's run with it anyway -- there's some interesting, potentially contradictory ways to interpret this data:

Over 1 in 3 are actively interested in Sansar. Which strikes me as a pretty large percentage, though others might wonder why it's not a majority.

Linden Lab is being stingy/careful with granting early access. Twice as many are being denied access, than getting it granted. Sure seems like Linden Lab is being super-cautious about who and how many get in early!

The Sansar NDA might forbid mentioning whether or not the signee even signed an NDA. Or as reader Dirk put it, "The first rule about NDA, you do not talk about NDA."

Or as Chic Aeon offered: "I have signed a few NDAs and many have said that the signee could not mention they were working for the company OR had signed an NDA -- let alone what the project was about. Think about it from The Lab's point of view. Let's say 200 top name designers go over to try out the new platform. 20 decide it is for them and stay. Does The Lab WANT people to know that 180 left?"

On the other hand, JohnC avers: "That might make some kind of convoluted sound business sense in many areas, but this whole Sansar thing is supposed to be the democratizing of VR, bringing VR tech into the sphere of the average creator, by a company that has a huge user base in SL who quite obviously are going to be gagging at the bit (even if they feign disinterest) to hear any news at all about what, like it or not, will be the successor to SL. When you act like you have a secret people become even more curious as to why. And who can blame them."