An anonymous reader writes:
After four years of development, Sansar, the new virtual reality world from Second Life’s creators will arrive later this year on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets. “It is trying to solve some of the big problems that plagued Second Life for years,” reports MIT Technology Review, “such as that most users come in through what is essentially a front door and have a hard time finding things to do once they get in… In the demos I tried, I navigated via an atlas that shows a simple clickable thumbnail image of each destination along with its name.”

But it still has to prove itself to users like John Artz, an associate professor at George Washington University who once taught a class about using Second Life for business applications. Artz “thinks Sansar will still suffer from the same fundamental issue that dogs Second Life: while the technology behind it is good, he says, it just got boring after a while.”

Second Life still has 800,000 monthly users — and in Sansar, virtual land will be cheaper, with Linden Lab concentrating “more on making money from selling virtual objects like clothing for avatars and furniture.”

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Source: Slashdot – ‘Second Life’ Creators Develop A VR Social World Named ‘Sansar’

Delta Air Lines has been forced to cancel at least 150 flights, and expects to cancel even more. But “the IT department is working to rectify the situation as soon as possible,” they tweeted Sunday — more than four hours ago. Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike quotes CNBC:
Delta Air Lines U.S. domestic flights were grounded on Sunday evening due to automation issues, according to an advisory from the Federal Aviation Administration… “Delta teams are expeditiously working to fix a systems outage that has resulted in departure delays for flights on the ground,” the airline said in the statement. “Flights in the air remain unaffected”. [And their international flights were unaffected.]

Delta also grounded 2,000 flights last summer after a computer outage caused by a power outage in Atlanta. At the time Reuters reported that “Airlines will likely suffer more disruptions… because major carriers have not invested enough to overhaul reservations systems based on technology dating to the 1960s.” And sure enough, just last week, another “IT issue” forced United Airlines to ground all their domestic flights.

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Source: Slashdot – This Week ‘IT Issues’ Ground Delta Airlines’ Flights