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Linden Lab sells off Sansar to ‘streamline its focus’ on Second Life
Hari Raghavan and Sheri Bryant of Linden Lab.Image Credit: Dean Takahashi          

 

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 has announced that it’s sold 

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 to San Francisco-based tech company, Wookey Project Corp., which has assumed all operations without service interruption to the community.I couldn’t find anything about this company, Wookey Project, because their 

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, but the 

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. Reportedly, Linden Lab decided to make this move in order to “streamline its focus to continue the development and operations” of user-created virtual world, 

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, which still appears to be going strong.Sansar 

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 and seemed poised to capitalize on the opportunity to establish a new social VR landscape, especially since it was created by the developers of Second Life.

From the very start Linden Lab was focused on trying to 

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According to the announcement, “effective immediately,” Wookey Project now has full and total ownership of Sansar and is contracting with Tilia Inc. as a third party for back office functions, so Linden Lab no longer has any ownership or management at all. VR is also explicitly stated as a continued focus for Sansar moving forward as well:

“Sansar will continue to evolve as the premier platform for live events and entertainment including (but not limited to) support for VR, while Second Life is positioned as the Internet’s leading user-created virtual world platform. Both Linden Lab and Wookey Project Corp. will continue to develop our respective platforms independently.”

The new owner is pretty bright. I hope he does well with it

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The new owner is pretty bright. I hope he does well with it

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Sansar has potential. Linden Lab failed mostly because they are determined to run their virtual worlds with a totalitarian system. That just dosen't work with this new generation of users. Most not all that play SL are reluctant to switch to another virtual world. Mainly because that have put so much time and money into SL.


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Not like Sansar

hummm second post, its work? :))

I would not switch to sansar myself. That's for sure.

LOL drunken slur removed ^^