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With early creators getting their invites into Linden Lab's Sansar,

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now comes with several new Sansar screenshots. Which look great, except they're less the one feature that most virtual world users look for first: Where's the avatars?

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Here some are! Way off in the sun-blasted distance. Maybe they're celebrity avatars, and this is the closest the Linden Lab paparazzi can get to them?

Wait a minute. Computer: enhance, enhance, enhance.

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Yeah: no. Still doesn't show us much. Are Sansar avatars really that generic?

Here's a couple more screenshots, full of atmospheric effects and impressive architecture...

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... yet devoid of life...

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... notwithstanding one or two off in the far distance. Top right corner, see them? Maybe the same couple? Like Sartre used to say (or maybe it was Kanye), hell may be other people, but virtual worlds must be other avatars. Until then, everything else is backdrop.

Thanks to Nylon Pinkney for the avatar close-up!

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