Sosauce Hints at Amazing Future of Travel Websites

Today we have an interesting piece of news from Sosauce, a travel startup we reviewed on Profy first when it launched back in May. At the time we called Sosauce a place to have a “really fantastic super travel journal” because the site provided all the functions a user could dream of to have a perfect travel journal - and even more so this explains some of the admiration in our description. The platform allows to record everything related to your travel experience - from the route to photos and journal - and place it all in one very comfortable place to share with those interested in your latest vacation. And you can actually place everything - both photos and posts from your journal onto a map for visitors to better understand the trip you’ve made or maybe for yourself to recall the trip later in details.

And while we obviously were very excited about the product at the time of its launch, I can’t help but be even more excited today given the news the guys have announced. Sosauce debuts two major new features: a travel guide and Mesa 3D to fully integrate the 2D web content into a 3D environment.

Travel guide is obviously exactly what it is supposed to be - a place to find the best trip for yourself and explore the place you want to visit as viewed by other users that have already visited this particular destination. And to add content to explore, the Travel Guide allows all the users to document their own trips with text, photos or videos and share them with the world. What I also find particularly appealing is that you can create your own travel guide on Sosauce and embed it on your own blog elsewhere or profiles on social networks so that you are not even limited to Sosauce itself to show off your trips to your friends and whoever may be interested.

Basically the travel guide on Sosauce enables you to both plan your trip using itineraries, tips and reviews shared by other users and to share your own trips in as many details as you choose.

The newly introduced Mesa is definitely a very interesting - yet unexpected - addition to a travel website. Mesa is a browser-based 3D environment that allows you to interact with the regular 2D web content in a very peculiar way - being totally immersed in 3D environment. Users are able to pull their 2D content already available on Sosauce into Mesa to create a 3D environment using this content. For example, right now Mesa allows users to create 3D apartments and decorate these apartments with photos from their trips, put the travel journals on bookshelves and even pin trips to the globe. So now to share your trip with your friends you can actually invite them to your virtual apartment on Mesa and chat with them about the trips they can view in your travel journals - taken from the bookshelves in that apartment, of course.

But since Sosauce is a travel site, it is clear that this 3D environment will be used to showcase various travel destinations by duplicating them in a virtual world. The first destination to arrive here will be Ross Island in Antarctica but I’d expect more to come in the future with content from various trips shared by users so that other people could explore the world on Sosauce in a totally new manner.

While Mesa seems to be a strange development for a travel site since it resembles SecondLife more than a usual place to share your travel experiences, after giving it some consideration I believe that it has a great promise for the future of travel sites in general. After all, simply sharing your tips, reviews, photos or videos on a travel site is one thing but being able to actually visit a particular destination in a browser-based virtual world and view tips or photos submitted by users for this particular destination definitely sounds like a great new way to familiarize yourself with this place, especially when planning a trip. So if Sosauce lives up to my expectations and will be adding various travel destinations to this 3D environment, I believe it really has all the chances to completely change the way we view and use travel sites now.