Sansar social VR launches on HTC’s Viveport with more Ready Player One content

Sansar is a social VR platform from Linden Lab, the maker of the Second Life virtual world. And today, Sansar is now available as a free download on Viveport, the HTC Vive’s global platform and app store. This marks the first time the platform is in a VR store, giving people access to new and exciting environments inspired by Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One film.

Linden Lab has reproduced Aech’s Basement, a central location in the beloved Ernest Cline novel and Steven Spielberg’s new film. In Sansar, developers previously brought Aech’s Garage from the film to life in a VR scene. The new space interprets the original ILM design for Ready Player One from Warner Brothers Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, and Village Roadshow Pictures. The new content is one more step in the direction of social VR, which, like competitive efforts such as Facebook Spaces, could make the new medium of virtual reality more appealing to a broader group of people.