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Anyland: Virtual World for Vive With Prim-Based Building - Second Life - 10-24-2016 Anyland: Virtual World for Vive With Prim-Based Building [To see links please register here] , and more than any other world I've seen -- even High Fidelity and certainly Sansar -- it evokes Second Life in its very earliest incarnation over a decade ago, when the creative space was open and abundant, and we all built quirky things of wonder with prims (i.e. building blocks). Created by indie developers Philipp Lenssen and Scott Lowe, it's a VR spinoff of[To see links please register here] , but the inspiration goes even farther back than that:"Even before Manyland was released some years ago, we had the idea for Anyland," Philipp tells me. "Manyland being a 2D sandbox universe, and Anyland being the 3D sibling. At that point, we didn't know the wonderful virtual reality devices like the Vive would come along! Once we saw those headsets, and later hand motion controllers, we knew it would be perfect for it. Making 3D models with fluid hand tracking can be super intuitive, and virtual reality can be so incredibly immersive... So Anyland is our indie project of love to give people tools and a universe which is enjoyable, open, inspiring, and unpredictable." Since launching over a week ago, he adds,the world has a few hundred early users. More about Anyland from Phillip below the break: [To see links please register here] Is this a single shard world? If so, how many total users can it support?
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What's the revenue model?
Will there be virtual currency?
[To see links please register here] . If I had a Vive to try it out, I surely would -- until then, hope new players share their reactions below!Thanks to [To see links please register here] for the tip!Please share this post: [To see links please register here] |