{"id":2846,"date":"2015-05-19T23:18:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T23:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zoha-islands.com\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2015-05-19T23:18:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T23:18:22","slug":"project-sansar-is-linden-labs-new-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/project-sansar-is-linden-labs-new-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Sansar Is Linden Lab&#8217;s New Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Linden Lab let it slip that they are working on a new project, dubbed &#8220;Second Life 2&#8221; by speculators, rumors have abounded regarding this mysterious project. Hoopla ensued; people were in a panic over whether Linden Lab was going to stop supporting Second Life once the new world was up and running; content creators and residents alike were up in arms over the fact that the new world would not be backwards-compatible and user-created content from SL would not be transferable to the new world. <\/p>\n<p>Recent rumblings in the forums and blogs have indicated that the nickname is Project Sansar. Indeed, patents have been applied for that use the name Sansar, and Project Sansar. <\/p>\n<p>Inara Pey, in her blog &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/modemworld.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/03\/is-sansar-the-name-of-the-labs-new-virtual-experiences-platform\/?blogsub=confirmed#blog_subscription-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Living in the ModemWorld<\/a>&#8221; (that&#8217;s a clickable link) speculated that: &#8220;Sansara was one of the early names considered for Second life (being derived from Sams\u0101ra, which occurs in both Buddhism and Hinduism, and, perhaps more particularly where SL is concerned, was used by Hermann Hesse in his 1922 novel Siddhartha as a reference to the \u201cworld of illusion\u201d), and currently lives on as the name of SL \u2018s oldest and largest mainland continent. Whether \u201cSANSAR\u201d is a play on this is unclear \u2013 it might just as easily be an acronym.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently both &#8220;Sansar&#8221; and &#8220;Project Sansar&#8221; are being bandied about, and threads point to the fact that both names have had patents applied for by the Lab:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/tsdr.uspto.gov\/#caseNumber=86593254&#038;caseType=SERIAL_NO&#038;searchType=statusSearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Serial no 86593254<\/a> \u2013 for \u201cProject SANSAR\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/tsdr.uspto.gov\/#caseNumber=86593259&#038;caseType=SERIAL_NO&#038;searchType=statusSearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US serial no 86593259<\/a> \u2013 for \u201cSANSAR\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, in October 2014, Ascio Technologies, Inc., filed a domain name registration for projectsansar.com listing Linden Research as the Domain Administrator.<\/p>\n<p>A few days after this information was beginning to leak out, Linden Lab tweeted:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ProjectSansar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ProjectSansar.jpg\" alt=\"ProjectSansar\" width=\"586\" height=\"251\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ProjectSansar.jpg 586w, https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ProjectSansar-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to this blog; we will post more as information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>I remain respectfully yours,<br \/>\n~ Suzanne Piers, ZI Blogger\/Social Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Linden Lab let it slip that they are working on a new project, dubbed &#8220;Second Life 2&#8221; by speculators, rumors have abounded regarding this mysterious project. Hoopla ensued; people were in a panic over whether Linden Lab was going to stop supporting Second Life once the new world was up and running; content &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/project-sansar-is-linden-labs-new-platform\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[122,123,178,196,201,278,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}