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I'm assuming you've heard of Sansar, the VR project from Linden Lab. I haven't tried it, but presumably they are incorporating a number of lessons learned from Second Life.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/31/sansar-vr-creator-beta-s...

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Sansar is nice, but not directly comparable to SL (it reminds me more of would-be SL competitor Blue Mars). There is no single world; instead, it's a platform for the creation of stand-alone "experiences" (which can include teleport gates to other experiences, by all means). The building tools are also limited. Judging by my (so far also limited) experimentation, you end up working alone, mainly in something like Blender or Maya, then you upload and position your meshes in Sansar. In SL, you can collaborate on builds in real time.

An interesting open source alternative in the social VR space is Phil Rosedale's High Fidelity: https://highfidelity.com/

But personally, I am currently infatuated with the much more light-weight Rec Room: https://www.againstgrav.com/rec-room/

Rec Room is amazing! really solid experience ... could easily be expanded upon to really capitalize on this idea of a shared virtual world IMO

I've played with High Fidelity. It constantly disconnects, and it can take over a minute for an area to load enough to provide basics like 'a floor to walk on' or 'the shapes of buildings'. Second Life ran a hell of a lot better on my crappy old computer on a crappy Internet connection; the graphical improvements of High Fidelity are scarcely better and certainly don't justify the poor performance.

Oh, and it's already full of furries, so you might as well torch it and start again.

> Oh, and it's already full of furries, so you might as well torch it and start again.

Many of the most prolific creators I knew on SL had some affiliation with the furry fandom. I would take that as a good sign, actually: they tend to be early adopters.

> It constantly disconnects

For what it's worth, I've never had that problem.

Does it also happen with your local sandbox?

Nope! My Internet connection is less than perfect but better than the national average.

The local sandbox is still laggy crap on a recently-built i7 desktop with a 1-year-old NVidia card, though.

JanusVR is worth looking into. The markup is an HTML like language and it has browser support. https://JanusVR.com

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